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ver 2014 Buick LaCrossewith a paper tag.
Browns cell phone andthe Buick LaCrosse havebeen tracked by satellite tothe area of Jones home inGrand Prairie, Texas, butauthorities in Grand Prairiehave not been able to locateBrown or Jones, Mahansaid.
We know that earlier to-day, the vehicle was in mo-tion for a few moments after3 oclock this afternoon,Ma-han said Thursday evening.
We sent officers withGrand Prairie to the loca-tion, but they have not beenable to find the vehicle, hesaid. The phone is pingingwithin 1,500 meters of theresidence of the gentleman
we believe she is with. Wecant say if she is with himor is somewhere in the stateof Oklahoma.
Police believe Brown is inimminent danger becauseshe does not have her med-ications.
Those are in possessionof the family, so we know shedoesnt have them, Mahansaid.
Police havent been ableto reach Brown on herphone. It is not being an-swered,he said.
The gentleman she waswith, his phone would ringearlier and then go to voice-mail. Now, it goes straightto voicemail, Mahan saidThursday evening.
Browns family spoke withJones on Wednesdayevening and believed Jonesand Brown were in Musko-gee.
He said they would beback home in about anhour, Mahan said. Theyhavent heard from themsince then.
Police also have checkedwith Browns bank.
We believe she did callher local bank here in town,Mahan said. She wouldnttell them where she was at.They are aware of the situ-ation.
Police know Jones lives inGrand Prairie and have hisaddress because he filled outa criminal complaint a fewdays ago,Mahan said.
Jones was at Browns res-idence on Tuesday andclaimed that a neighbor ofhers accused him of abus-ing (Brown), and a verbal al-tercation took place.
Jones told police that theneighbor retrieved a rifleand pointed it in the air.Therifle turned out to be a pelletgun, Mahan said.
Grand Prairie police donthave enough probable causeto force entry into the home,Mahan said.
The Silver Alert has beenissued statewide in Okla-homa, and the informationalso will be sent to agenciesin Texas.
We have enough informa-tion to say we believe she isimminent harm, Mahansaid. We cant say whereshe is at this point.
Reach Elizabeth Ride-nour at (918) 684-2929 or
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taining the greatness of notjust Oklahoma but our na-tion, (and) we cannot dothat without thinking be-yond the end of our noses.
Watts, who grew up inEufaula and saw the lakeas the greatest swimmingpool around, gave thekeynote speech for Thurs-days commemoration of the50th anniversary of John-sons dedication ceremony.He was joined by civic lead-ers, local officials and edu-cators along with U.S. Rep.Markwayne Mullin and for-mer Oklahoma AttorneyGeneral Drew Edmondson.
Almost every speakerdrew from the message
Johnson delivered duringthe Lake Eufaula Damdedication ceremony,whichattracted an estimated30,000 people. The 50th an-niversary festivities drew200 to 300 people abouta dozen who attended theinaugural event and scoresof students who have been
studying the history of thelake as a school project.
Chris Wheelan, the prin-cipal of Eufaula MiddleSchool, lauded the vision-aries who made the lake areality: Richard Crumpler,Ed Edmondson and RobertS. Kerr were among thosewhom he named. He saidthose men had the wisdomto look at things for thenext 30 years,not just thenext 15 minutes.
Mullin said those vision-aries laid the foundationupon which todays genera-tion has an obligation tobuild for the future. In or-der to do that, Mullin said,differences must be set
aside and political bicker-ing must end.
Edmondson touted thesensibilities of those law-makers who recognized thecosts of building the lakeas an investment in the fu-ture, not just an expendi-ture of public funds. Thatinvestment curbed thethreat of floods, created arecreational playground,and supplied water for mu-nicipal, industrial and agri-cultural endeavors.
Edmondson, along withMullin and others whospoke Thursday,challengedthose present to considerwhat they might do tomove the state and nationforward.
What are you going todo in your community andyour state and your nationthat people will show up 50years later and say, Thankyou for your vision, thankyou for not just thinking
about today, but thinkingabout ... 50 years into thefuture, Edmondson said.Its that kind of vision thatbuilds a state and builds anation.
Reach D.E. Smoot at(918) 684-2901 or [email protected].
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Bruno Torresshares his memo-ries of the LakeEufaula Dam dedi-cation in 1964. Tor-res was there as anews photogra-pher to cover thepresidentialspeech. He droveup from Texas toattend the 50th an-niversary com-memoration andvisit a friend.Staff photo byD.E. Smoot
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Hartense Brown, right, of Muskogee and Curtis Jonesof Grand Prairie, Texas, are seen together at an unspec-ified time. Brown has been missing since Wednesday.
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come dislodged from hisgroin,prolonging his death.
Patton also elaborated onchanges under way in theexecution chamber. Therenovation involved dis-sembling the death cham-ber down to the floor, andwere building it back up,he said.The work is expect-ed to be done next week.
Patton said the renova-tion has doubled the size ofthe operations room fromwhich the deadly chemicalcocktail is administered.New lighting and tableshave been ordered, alongwith different types of med-ical equipment includingan ultrasound machine tohelp locate veins for an IVand an EKG machine.
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