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BORN ON JAN. 21

TODAY IN HISTORYJAN. 21

DEATHS-PG. 3

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

ROSS RICKS- 87LEE R. JOHNSON- 87

IVAN HANKLA- 59

1813 John C Frémont [Path-finder], map maker/explorer(western US)/Governor(AZ)1884 Roger Nash Baldwinfounder (American CivilLiberties Union)1921 Barney Clark 1st toreceive a permanent artifi-cial heart1926 Steve ReevesGlasgow MT, actor (Her-cules, Hercules Unchained)1933 William Wrigley IIIchewing gum mogul(Wrigleys)1939 Wolfman Jack [BobSmith], Brooklyn NY, DJ(Midnight Special)1940 Jack Nicklaus Colum-bus OH, golfer (Player ofYear 1967,72,73,75,76)1942 Mac Davis LubbockTX, singer/actor (Mac DavisShow, North Dallas 40)1957 Geena (Virginia) DavisWareham MA, actress(Beetlejuice, The Fly)

1189 Philip II, Henry II &Richard Lion-Hearted ini-tiate 3rd Crusade1522 Head inquisitorAdrian Florisz Boeyenselected pope1677 1st medical publica-tion in America (pamphleton smallpox), Boston1799 Edward Jenner’ssmallpox vaccination is in-troduced1827 Freedom Journal, 1stBlack paper, begins pub-lishing1830 Portsmouth (Ohio)blacks forcibly deported1846 1st edition of CharlesDickens’ “Daily News”1861 Jefferson Davis ofMississippi & 4 othersouthern senators resign1880 1st US sewage dis-posal system separate fromstorm drains, Memphis TN1908 New York City NYregulation makes it illegalfor a woman to smoke inpublic1940 Foreign correspon-dents in Netherlands undercensorship1941 1st anti-Jewish mea-sures in Bulgaria1954 1st atomic submarine,USS Nautilus, launched onThames River, christenedby First Lady MamieEisenhower1977 President JimmyCarter pardons almost allVietnam War draft evaders1989 A woman is assaulted& raped in the room of anOklahoma football player

1-16Rex Moneymaker- DUI,TOC, DUS- serving time.

1-17Victor Garcia Hernandez-Driving Under the Influ-ence, of drugs.

“If you have integrity, noth-ing else matters. If you don’thave integrity, nothing elsematters.” - Alan Simpson

Community involvement...Paul Trantham reads from his I Like Me book as RotarianJohn Smith watches and listens. The books were donatedearlier this year by the Boise City Rotary Club. Seetoday’s school page for an article by Paul’s First GradeTeacher Betty Kincannon on this and other projects theBoise City First Graders have been doing.

Pursuit Goes into and Ends Peacefullyin Union County, Four States Coveredin Couple’s Commission of Crimesby C.F. David

A gas drive-off in Campo,Colo. on Friday morning, begana chase that went from Colo-rado, through Cimarron Countybefore ending in Clayton, N.M.

The driver, Jose Carranza,21 and his passengers, JaclynPerez, 19, and an infant weretaken into custody by UnionCounty Sheriff’s Officers nearnoon Friday.

Charges, according to UnionCounty Deputy Matt Langstonranged from possession of sto-len property, (a vehicle regis-tered in Kansas), fleeing, andchild endangerment.

According to CimarronCounty Keith Borth, the couple,from El Salvador, might be hereillegally.

The Cimarron CountySheriff’s Office was notifiedthat a gas-drive off of $44 dol-lars plus had taken place inCampo. Sheriff Borth hadstarted north to look for thevehicle, when he spotted theDodge SUV near the old tire

shop on North Cimarron Street.“I had just turned, I hadn’t even

flipped on my lights when hequickly turned into the residentialsection north of the courthouseand took off,” Borth said.

Carranza soon found himselfback at the courthouse squarewhere, according to Borth, henarrowly missed three vehicles ashe drove the truck onto Highway56 toward Clayton at a high rateof speed. At this point, a Keyespolice officer who happened tobe in the area joined the pursuitand other county officers and anOklahoma Highway Patrol Of-ficer soon joined in the chase.

The SUV quickly outdistancedthe officers and Borth asked forassistance from Union County.The New Mexico officers wentto the state line, but Carranzaagain refused to stop and droveat high speed on into Clayton.

According to Borth, Carranzaagain turned off into a residentialarea where the couple abandonedthe vehicle in an alleyway andwalked from the scene.

Cimarron County Officers

soon arrived with multi-purposedogs, and the couple wastracked from the truck to a busi-ness some distance away.

“Some people had seen themnear there and said they didn’tbelong. When questioned, he(Carranza), said they didn’tknow anything about it; but thedogs came right to them,” Borthsaid.

After the dogs found thecouple Carranza then admittedthat he was driving the vehiclebut denied stealing it, insisting in-stead that they had “found it”.

Deputy Langston said the ve-hicle had been parked across thestreet from Perez’s mother’shome in Dodge City.

“In fact when the baby’sgrandmother drove from DodgeCity to pick up the baby, thewoman who owned the car rodewith her to get it,” Langston said.

The decision was made toleave the couple in New Mexicoand not pursue any Oklahomacharges. What Colorado andKansas might choose to do isn’tknown.

Librarians Evlyn Schmidt, left and Elaina Stewart displaytwo of the pieces from the R. L. Howsley Poetry andShakespeare Collection. — Christina Cobos photo

— By Elaina Stewart andLaura Hays

Goodwell— The Marvin E.McKee Library at OklahomaPanhandle State University wasrecently notified of a $6,000 grantaward. The National Endowmentfor the Humanities (NEH) hasawarded the library $6,000.00 insupport of the R. L. HowsleyPoetry and Shakespeare Collec-tion project. The grant wasfunded by the Division of Pres-ervation and Access and theproject period covers from Janu-ary 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011.Written by Elaina Stewart, thegrant provides support for exper-tise and materials to evaluate andpreserve this valuable collection.

The Howsley Collection, lo-cated in the Archives and Spe-cial Collections room, includes thecomplete works of WilliamShakespeare and at one time wasconsidered “one of the most com-plete library sections on poetryand Shakespeare in the country.”(The Oklahoman, April 3, 1960,p. 165) The donated group ofmaterial includes many rare andunusual books relating to poetryand research on Shakespeare.The publication dates of theHowsley Poetry andShakespeare Collection range

McKee Library Receives Grant toPreserve Rare Collection

from 1673 to 1976 and the 1043volumes in this collection areout of print and have variousbindings and construction.Some of the more unusual titleswith the publishing dates includeThe Works of AbrahamCowley, 1689; The Works ofSir William D’Avenant,Knight, 1673; and The Poeti-cal Works of AugustineDuganne, 1855.

An archivist will examinethe material to help determinehow to continue conserving thematerial and how best to dis-play and use the Collection inthe future. It is an honor forMarvin E. McKee Library per-sonnel to act as curators for theR. L. Howsley Collection andthe staff hopes it may prove tobe a valuable resource forscholars. Thanks to the NEH,the grant helps assure that thecollected materials will be prop-erly preserved for future gen-erations.

Acknowledgement of NEHsupport: “Any views, findings,conclusions, or recommenda-tions expressed in this publica-tion do not necessarily reflectthose of the National Endow-ment for the Humanities.”

STILLWATER– TheOklahoma State UniversityAlumni Association is proud toannounce Donald Humphreys,Gary Sparks, and Marilynn andCarl Thoma as the 2010 induct-ees of the OSU Alumni Hall ofFame.

They will be inducted at aceremony on Friday, Feb. 19,at the ConocoPhillips OSUAlumni Center in Stillwater,Okla.

Humphreys, a 1971 gradu-ate, is a native of Dallas andlife member of the Association.He currently serves as the se-nior vice president and trea-surer for Exxon Mobil Corpo-

ration and also serves on theBoard of Trustees for the OSUFoundation.

Sparks, a 1966 graduate, is anative of Jenks, Okla., and a lifemember of the Association. Hecurrently serves as the senior vicepresident of Crafton Tull Sparks,which was responsible for therenovations and expansions ofboth Gallagher-Iba Arena andBoone Pickens Stadium.

Marilynn and Carl Thoma,1970 and 1971 graduates, respec-tively, are natives of Kenilworth,Ill., and life members of the As-sociation. They are the ownersand proprietors of Van DuzerVineyards and have endowed the

Marilynn Thoma Chair in theCollege of Human Environmen-tal Sciences.

Induction into the OSUAlumni Hall of Fame is the high-est honor bestowed by the OSUAlumni Association. It recog-nizes outstanding lifetimeachievement in society and pro-fessional life.

The Association invites allalumni and friends to the induc-tion ceremony. Ticket inquiriesshould be made to FrankieBaptista at 405.744.8837. Formore information about theOSU Alumni Hall of Fame, visitorangeconnection.org/hof.

OSU Alumni Association Announces 2010Hall of Fame Inductees

Carl Thoma, left and his wifeMarilyn, right, ofKenilworth, Ill., have beennamed to OSU’s Hall ofFame. Carl is a former Ci-marron County resident anda graduate of Boise CityHigh School. They own andoperate the Van DuzerVineyards, and have en-dowed the Marilyn ThomaChair at OSU.

Voters in Cimarron Countywho want to have absentee bal-lots mailed to them for the An-nual Cimarron County SchoolBoard Election

should apply now, CountyElection Board Secretary VickiTurner said today. Although theCounty Election Board can ac-cept applications for absenteeballots until 5 p.m. on Wednes-day, February 3, Turner urgedvoters who want to vote by ab-sentee ballot to apply early.

Absentee ballot applicationforms are available at theCounty Election Board officelocated at the Courthouse. Theabsentee ballot applicationforms also can be downloadedand printed from the Internetat www.elections.state.ok.us.

“At least two mail transac-tions must be made,” Turnersaid. “The County ElectionBoard must mail the ballots tothe voter and the voter mustreturn the voted ballots bymail.” Ballots must be in thehands of the County ElectionBoard by 7 p.m. on election dayin order to be counted.

Absentee Voters Must Apply NowTurner said that any regis-

tered voter may vote by absen-tee ballot in any election inwhich he or she is eligible tovote. However, a voter mustbe registered and reside at anaddress within the geographi-cal boundaries of a school dis-trict or a municipality to be eli-gible to vote in school districtor municipal elections. It is notnecessary to give a reason—or excuse—for voting absen-tee. “While anyone can voteabsentee without giving a rea-son, the law still provides sev-eral excuses, and it is

to the advantage of somevoters to use one of them,”Turner said. By stating one ofthe following reasons on theirapplications, these voters canactivate some special conditionsthat make it easier for them touse absentee ballots. The rea-sons are:

— Voters who are physi-cally incapacitated and voterswho care for physically inca-pacitated persons who cannotbe left unattended may voteabsentee. They may apply onlyby mail, by fax, or by telegraph.

— Voters who are confinedto nursing homes in the countymay vote absentee. An Absen-tee Voting Board actually goesto the nursing home a few daysbefore the election, sets up asmall polling place and allowsthese persons to vote under cir-cumstances similar to those ata regular precinct polling place.They may apply only by mail orby fax.

— Military personnel andresidents of the county livingoverseas and the spouses anddependents of each group areeligible to vote absentee with-out being registered. These vot-ers may apply only by mail orby fax. Military personnel shouldcontact the Voting Service Of-ficers in their units for applica-tion forms and additional infor-mation. Residents of Oklahomaliving overseas can obtain thesame materials from any UnitedStates military installation andfrom United States Embassiesand Consulates. Military person-nel and overseas citizens alsocan download and print the ap-propriate application form fromthe Internet at www.fvap.gov.

One of the most importanttools in improving Oklahoma’seconomy is to increase the num-ber of students who graduatefrom high school and college. That’s according to Sen. JohnFord, who has filed legislationrequiring schools to set specificgoals to increase graduation rates.

“The stark reality is that outof 100 students in Oklahoma thatstart the ninth grade, only 75 willgraduate from high school. Ofthose 75, just 44 will start college,but only 17 will graduate. Okla-homa can and must do better,”said Ford, Chairman of the Sen-ate Education Committee. “Thebottom line is, the less educationa person has, the harder it is toprovide a living for themselvesand their family. But as we in-crease graduation rates, those

Sen. Ford FilesLegislation to ImproveGraduation Rates

individuals prosper—as do theircommunities and our entirestate.”

Ford, who represents Craig,Nowata and Washington coun-ties, is the author of Senate Bill2139, which creates a formulafor schools to set new gradua-tion targets. Those schoolswould be given two years tomeet those goals. Schools un-able to meet their graduationgoal will receive assistancefrom the State Department ofEducation to develop andimplement a plan to improvegraduation rates.

“Losing a fourth of all highschool students is unaccept-able. By setting specific goals,we can improve those numbersand in the process, create abetter future for our childrenand for Oklahoma,” Ford said.