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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 50 cents daily/ $1 SundayVol. 111 • No. 123
“But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.” -Job 23:10-11
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SPORTSLady Lions’ winning streak ends - but they are not out of the running for State .........7
Brittany SnappStaff Writer
If the Texoma housing market is any indication, the local economic con-dition is greatly improv-ing. The entire nation has been hit hard by a recession in the past few years, but here in Bryan County, things seem to be looking up. Increases in the real estate market reveal that consumers are becoming more confident
in the economy.Linda VanMeter, a local
Realtor with Coldwell Banker, recently gave a presentation to the board of the Durant Chamber of Commerce about real estate sales in Bryan County. She said num-bers have gone up sub-stantially in in the past year.
“People are feeling more comfortable with the economy,” she said. From January through
September 2011, the Texoma housing market showed a 12.7 percent increase in the total num-ber of homes sold than in the same period in 2010. The average price of a home sold also increased by 10.5 percent. In the first nine months of 2011, the median price of a home sold was $95,835, which is up $6,363 from 2010. In 2011, the aver-age number of days a house was on the mar-
ket was 155, which is a 19 day decrease from the year before.
Statewide, real estate sales are also improving. Real estate sales from January 2011 through September 2011 were up 1.7 percent than 2010. In the third quarter of 2011, there was a 23 percent increase in homes sold statewide than in the year before. VanMeter said the real estate community believes these numbers
will continue to improve.“We feel confident
they’ll continue to go up with the stability of the economy,” she said.
She also offered advice for those looking to pur-chase homes.
“The easiest way to approach it is to talk to a lender to find out any restrictions and find out what payments you can afford, then start looking for a house,” she said. “That way, your heart
isn’t broken when you fall in love with a house out of your price range.”
VanMeter said she enjoys being a Realtor and hopes to help oth-ers in Bryan County find their perfect home.
“It’s a good time to be in real estate because it’s a joy to help people,” she said. “The real estate community can help peo-ple find a home and help make it an easy transition for them.”
Texoma real estate sales on the rise
Matt SwearenginManaging Editor
Two Durant residents were hit with second-degree burglary charges following a Durant Police investigation into the burglary last year of the Subway on North First Avenue.
Charged Thursday were Trevor Don Moore, 19, and Tannor Lynn Buchanan, 20. They were also charged with knowingly concealing stolen property. They are accused of entering the business in November and stealing money.
Durant Police Sgt. Rocky McDaniel ques-tioned Buchanan, who was a Subway employee at the time of the theft, the affidavit states, and Moore, who was a former manager of the business,
was also questioned.McDaniel took photos
of the suspects’ shoes because partial shoe prints were found at the scene, and the shoes appeared to match, according to the affidavit.
During a subsequent interview, Buchanan and Moore admitted to the crime, according to police. The affidavit states that Buchanan said he had a key to the business, and Moore knew the code for the safe.
They said they took the money due to financial hardships, and that they then buried the money, the affidavit states. According to police, Buchanan led a detective to the burial site and the money was recovered.
In an unrelated crime, Kory Chase Carroll, 25, Durant, was charged
Thursday with second-degree burglary. He is accused of burglarizing a house in September in the 300 block of North 13th Avenue and steal-ing copper wire. Juzwin Northcutt, the victim, told McDaniel he believed Carroll was the suspect due to him being an ex-employee, according to an affidavit.
According to the affi-davit, Carroll, upon ques-tioning, said he took the wire to a scrap yard where he sold it for $70 which he used to feed a drug addic-tion he had at the time.
Carroll was also charged with attempted grand larceny for trying to take golf clubs and a tool box that belonged to Northcutt, according to court papers.
Charges filed against burglary suspects
From Associated Press and Staff reports
Oklahoma voters looking to get a jump on Super Tuesday can begin casting their ballots.
In-person absentee voting begins today in Oklahoma from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at county election boards across the state. Early voting also will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday. In Durant, the Bryan County Election Board is located at 217 N. 16 Ave. The telephone number is 580-924-3228.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. across the state on Tuesday as Oklahoma joins nine other states in selecting presidential candidates as part of Super Tuesday.
Republican candidates on the Oklahoma ballot include Michelle Bachmann, Newt
Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum.
On the Democratic side, President Obama will appear on the ballot, along with Bob Ely, Randall Terry, Darcy Richardson, and Jim Rogers.
Terry has been campaigning in Oklahoma this week.
Persons violating election laws dur-ing the Tuesday, March 6, Presidential Preferential Primary Election can expect to be reported, election officials said.
Linda Fahrendorf, Secretary of the Bryan County Election Board, said that apparent violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
Fahrendorf said electioneering is pro-hibited within 300 feet of any ballot box while an election is in progress. “In Fact, no one except election officials and voters
Early presidential primary voting begins in Okla.
Brittany SnappStaff Writer
On Thursday, congres-sional candidate Wayne Pettigrew spoke to local residents at the Donald W. Reylonds Library in Durant about his cam-paign and why voters in Oklahoma District 2 should elect him to serve in the United States Legislature. Pettigrew was born in McAlester and graduated from McAlester High School in 1980.
He became the first member of his family to graduate from college, becom-ing an honors graduate with a bachelor’s in business administration from East Central University. He started his own business at the age of 19 and in 2004, founding two Oklahoma-based com-panies specializing in life and health
insurance. During the meet-ing, Pettigrew spoke briefly to the audience about his personal life and said, “I love my wife, love my kids and love my country.
The candidate, who was the last one to enter the race, said he chose to run for congress because he “didn’t see anyone else with a financial background in the race.” Pettigrew served
in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1994 through 2004 and was “recognized by the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper as one of the top ten most conservative legislators of the past 20 years.”
Pettigrew gave an eye-opening Powerpoint presentation about gov-ernment spending that stated facts
Pettigrew visits with local residents
SEAN MURPHYAssociated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An anti-abortion group that wants to ban abortions in Oklahoma and lay the groundwork for a legal challenge to the land-mark Supreme Court rul-ing that legalized the prac-tice launched a signature drive Thursday to amend the state Constitution.
Of f ic ia l s wi th Personhood Oklahoma now have 90 days to
gather signatures from about 155,000 registered Oklahoma voters. If suc-cessful, they hope to have a question on the state ballot in November that defines a human being “from the beginning of the biological development of that human being to natural death.”
“We really feel like the debate has changed from regulating legal abortion to actually protecting the unborn as persons, (with) full constitutional rights affirmed just like we all
enjoy,” said Dan Skirbitz, an accountant from Tulsa and the director of Personhood Oklahoma.
“What it does is protect every human life, and we want the medical commu-nity, the universities, the research laboratories to be put on notice that they do not have free reign over human life. Human life is to be protected at whatever stage and wherever that human life is.”
Group launches personhood signature drive in Oklahoma
TIM TALLEYAssociated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal court jurors deliberated fewer than three hours Thursday on whether a former Oklahoma state Senate leader broke the law by accepting money from three compa-nies with business before the Legislature.
Former Senate President Pro Tem Mike Morgan is accused of taking more than $400,000 in return for his influence on bills. Prosecutors lodged bribery and extor-tion charges against Morgan, but he says the money he received was for legal ser-vices. He and a co-defendant pleaded not guilty and denied allegations during their testimony this week.
“He didn’t act as a lawyer. He got paid because he was an important senator,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Williams told the 12-member jury during Thursday’s closing arguments. He said one of the com-panies, Tenaska Inc., only hired Morgan because they wanted “high-powered politi-cal capital on retainer.”
Defense lawyer David Ogle told jurors the ex-Senate leader did not sell his seat and that Morgan would not have put his legal career in jeopardy.
“He has not denied the citizens of this state of honest services,” Ogle said. “Mr. Morgan brought benefit to the table. Mike
Morgan was of value.”A crowd packed the courtroom for clos-
ing arguments — the judge had to ask for the doors to be opened. Morgan’s 84-year-old father, Burnell Morgan, listened to argu-ments, as did Morgan’s daughter, brother and sister. Members of co-defendant N. Martin Stringer’s family were also there for support, including children.
Deliberations resumed today.Stringer, also a lawyer, is charged with
extortion and mail fraud. Stringer’s lawyer Drew Neville rhetorically asked jurors why no one from the state Ethics Commission testified against the two men. He said Stringer checked with state officials before hiring Morgan and was told that lining up his services would be OK.
During the trial, prosecutors said Tenaska, a power plant developer that paid Morgan $250,000, asked Morgan to answer a series of research questions about a pro-posed project. Morgan did not respond to the request and the questions were eventu-ally answered by other attorneys. While on the stand, Morgan said that he didn’t work on the request because he knew other lawyers were. He also said Tenaska never asked him to influence legislation.
The government also said Morgan received $141,000 from Dilworth Development Co., which wanted to build
Jurors receive Oklahoma ex-senator’s bribery case
Wayne Pettigrew
Photo provided: SoutheasternSoutheastern Oklahoma State University president Larry Minks, left, presents a resolution to Jon Clouse, who is retiring this week as Director/Chief of Security and Safety at the University. Clouse served Southeastern for 24 years, working as a patrolman, lieutenant, Director of Security and Safety, and finally as Director/Chief of Security and Safety. Stacy Ballew will assume the duties of Interim Chief of Police, and Steve Harman will serve as Interim Chief of Environmental Safety & Health.
Clouse retires after 24 years
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Anna Lucille Clark-AllenAnna Lucille Clark-Allen of Durant passed away
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at home with her fam-ily at the age of 68. Anna was born April 21, 1943 in Ardmore, OK to Johnnie Junior Clark and Iva Lucille (Rutledge) Clark. She attended George Washington Elementary, Woodrow Wilson Junior High and gradu-ated from Durant High School. Anna married Ronnie Allen on March 3, 1961 in Durant, where they made their home. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church she enjoyed reading, movies and going out with friends.
She is preceded in death by her husband Ronnie on February 5, 2005, her father Johnnie Clark and mother Iva Jackson and one brother Kenneth Clark.
Anna is survived by her son Mike Allen of Durant and daughter Cheryl Allen Bullard of Plano, TX one brother William Clark and wife Lahoma of Durant, granddaugh-ter Christine Bullard of Denton, TX and two grandsons Clint Bullard and Drew Bullard both of Plano, TX.
Graveside services will be held 10:00 AM, Saturday, March 3, 2012 at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Falls Creek fund at Calvary Baptist Church. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.brownsfuneralservicce.com.
Clarine BoneyClarine Boney or as everyone
knew her “Granny Bone” ,age 89, of Hendrix, Oklahoma died Wednesday, February 29, 2012 in Durant, with her children at her side. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M., Saturday, March 3, 2012 at Kemp Baptist Church, Kemp, Oklahoma with Brother J.T Welch and Roger Speers officiat-ing. Interment will follow at Georgetown Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Pottsboro, TX 75076. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M., Friday, March 2, 2012 at Bratcher Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Wayne Dollar, Dale Dollar, Rick Maxwell, Kenny House, Duce Charles and Bobby Badgett.
Dorothy Clarine Clement was born May 3, 1922 in Pottsboro, Texas to the late Alfred Baker and Margaret Augusta Fink Clement. As a pioneer family of Grayson County, she moved from Denison in 1946. She lost her husband at an early age and raised her six children working on her land in Hendrix, gardening, raising livestock and working a full time job first at the Silver Dollar as waitress and cook, then later at Diaper Jeans as a seamstress. She sewed all her children’s clothes. Clarine enjoyed piecing quilts and then quilting them. Pretty much if you ate it, she grew it in her garden or fed and butchered it. All that ate at her table had plenty to eat, and it was always delicious, she loved to cook and was awarded the senior citizens award for her cooking. She was a member of Kemp Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school. Her great-est love in life besides her Lord was her children and grandchildren. Clarine was the matriarch of six genera-tions, something she was very proud to have achieved in her lifetime.
Those left to cherish her memory:Daughters: Dorothy Rhine of Brownwood, TX.,
Mary Harvey and husband Don of Amity, AR., Myra Warsaw and husband Joe of Hendrix, OK., Anita Speed and husband Harold of Hendrix, OK. Lois Griffis and husband Joe of Whitewright, TX., Son: Frank Boney and wife Pansy of Hendrix, OK., Adopted daughter: Wanda Rose of Hendrix, OK. and Brother: James Clement and wife Patsy of Pottsboro, TX. 18 grandchildren, 43 great grandchildren, 29 great great grandchildren and 2 great great great grandchildren
Preceded in death by her parents and son-in-law, Farrell Rhine
Arrangements are entrusted to Bratcher Funeral Home, 401 W. Woodard St., Denison, TX 75020 (903) 465-2323. On line condolences may be made to the family at www.bratcherfuneralhome.com.
Rev. Bob McLean Sr.Rev. Bob McLean Sr. entered
this life on Tuesday, April 12, 1943 in Madill, Oklahoma to Johnny and Mary (Sossamon) McLean and entered into eternal life with his Lord and Savior on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 in Durant, Oklahoma at the age of 68.
Rev. McLean attend-ed and graduated from Madill high School and later married Norma Jean (Stowe) on February 10, 1962 in Russett, Oklahoma. He was the former Police Chief of Nacoma Park in Oklahoma City. He and his family moved to Bryan County in 1979 and was co-owner of B & G Air Conditioning. Bob was a great man of faith and dedicated his life to the Ministry and has pastored many churches. He is currently the Pastor of the Reynolds Chapel Baptist Church. Bob enjoyed fishing, camping, music especially playing the bass guitar but his great joy was spending time with family, friends and especially his grandchildren.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents Johnny and Mary McLean; brothers Harold Yeats McLean, Harvey Henry McLean, Charles Wallace McLean and Billie Hugh McLean and one sister Margaret Inez.
Bob is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 50 years Norma McLean of the home; sons Bobby McLean Jr. and wife Carol of Ardmore, OK, Bryant McLean and wife Brenda of Ft. Worth, TX and David McLean and wife Heather of Ardmore, OK; grand-children Thomas Andrew Glass, Vanessa Michelle Swim and husband Harkin, Corey Christian, Jaycee Dawn McLean, Zane Henderson, Colby McLean, Alia Henderson and Cale Brooks McLean; great grandchil-dren Chloe Elizabeth Swim, Gabriel James Swim and Boaz Bryant Swim.
Services to celebrate Rev. McLean’s life will be held on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM at Reynolds Chapel Baptist Church. Bro. Charles Loyd and Bro. Kerry Groce will officiate. Interment will follow in Oakland Cemetery with Corey Cooper, Thomas Glass, Dennis Stowe, Kenneth Stowe, Ronald Stowe, Johnny Stowe, Travis Smith, Tony Goolsby, Gary Hall and Corey Christian serving as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the Funeral Home on Friday evening from 6-8 PM. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.brownsfuneralservice.com.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Reynolds Chapel Baptist Church PO Box 21 Bokchito, OK 74726.
Services are under the direction of Brown’s Funeral Service, Durant.
Jewel “PeeWee” RowlandJewel “PeeWee” Rowland of
Durant passed away Thursday, March 1, 2012 in Durant at the age of 84. Jewel was born October 12, 1927 in Roberta, OK to Dudley Sims Tucker and Ruby Faye (Weibling) Tucker. She graduated from Durant High School. She married Lynwood Rowland on December 20, 1948 in Denison, TX. Jewel and husband Lynnwood owned and operated Tucker Slaughter House a business that was started by her dad Dudley Tucker. Jewel was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church in Durant, she enjoyed cook-ing, raising grandkids. Her life was devoted to her family, helping others and her church.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Lynwood Rowland, two brothers O.L. Tucker and Dudley Jr. and one sister Ruth Ann Russell.
Jewel is survived by two daughters Judy Goggans and husband Duane of Colbert, Berniece Aplin and husband Phillip of Durant, three sons Dudley Rowland and wife Winona of Mead, Johnny Rowland and wife Bonnie of Durant and Tommy Rowland and wife Brenda of Silo, three sisters Mozella Amos and husband Ray of Mead, Martha Faye Brister and hus-band Don of Oologah, OK and Ruby Helen Ingram of Durant, Brother-In-Law Harold Russell and sister in law Velma Tucker, special friends Jenese Simpson and Claudette Gayle and her caregivers the Wells family and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 1st Presbyterian Church in Durant with Pastor Jim Shroyer and David Hornsby officiat-ing. Family hour will be 6-8PM Friday, March 2, 2012 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mead. Interment will be at Highland Cemetery in Durant with David Goggans, Bradley Rowland, Calvin Rowland, Jeff Rowland, John Wallace and Kenny Ingram serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Wesley Russell, Matt Powell, Jason Lowry, Chris Straub and Dennis Cullum. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the 1st Presbyterian Church at 501 N. 15th Ave Durant, OK 74701, Emmanuel Baptist Church P.O. Box 235 Mead, OK 73449 or a charity of your choice. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.brownsfuneralservice.com.
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Similar proposals were defeated last year in Mississippi and Colorado, but the national anti-abor-tion group Personhood USA is pushing ballot measures in a dozen other states.
Skirbitz said the bill would outlaw abortions and certain forms of birth control that would pre-vent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus. He also acknowledged that a goal of the amendment is to set up a legal challenge to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that women have a legal right to abortion.
The Oklahoma Senate already has passed a bill this year to grant person-hood status to an embryo, but the author of that bill said the measure would not outlaw abor-tions or birth control. Tulsa Republican Sen. Brian Crain said his bill is designed only to send a message that Oklahomans believe life begins at con-ception.
Both the ballot initia-tive and Crain’s bill are opposed by many doctors who contend the propos-als could threaten the practice of reproductive medicine in Oklahoma.
“I find it ironic that these kinds of measures are being put forth by a Republican-dominated leg-islative branch that says they’re more interested in less government intru-sion in our lives,” said Dr. Carl Hansen, a reproduc-tive endocrinologist at the University of Oklahoma
Medical Center, “and in fact what they’re doing is providing the most intru-sive types of measures and laws that we’ve ever seen here in this state.”
With a GOP gover-nor now in office, the Oklahoma Legislature has been pushing some of the strictest anti-abortion measures in the country. A new law restricting the use of abortion inducing drugs and another requir-ing a pregnant woman to have an ultrasound per-formed before an abortion both have been placed on hold pending separate legal challenges.
Another bill that would force abortion providers to make the fetal heartbeat of the unborn child audible for a pregnant woman to hear is being considered this year.
Several hundred protest-ers gathered at the Capitol earlier this week to pro-test Crain’s personhood bill that is pending consid-eration in the House.
“The proposed ballot question with regard to personhood is the cul-mination of a consistent and steady attack on the reproductive health of Oklahoma’s women and their families,” said Ryan Kiesel, a former Democratic lawmaker and now the director of the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “And it’s the con-tinuation of a political strategy to put politics in the doctor’s office and to take medical decisions out of the hands of a woman, her doctor and her family.”
and had graphs depicting the billions of dollars the United States government spends every year. He offered his ideas on how to cut government spending and reduce the country’s debt.
“Economically, we have, in many ways, become a socialist nation,” he said. “At some point, we cannot continue to spend money we don’t have.”
He urged the audience to vote for a candidate that
was not just interested in being a congressman, but that wanted to work hard and change things in the government.
“Don’t vote for the regu-lar guy that’s going to go up there and do nothing. It’s about being a servant, not about being served,” he said.
Pettigrew allowed the audience to ask him ques-tions and told them, “I would love your vote, but do your due diligence.”
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a landfill in northern Oklahoma, and another $12,000 from Silver Oak Senior Living, a company that wanted to limit the Health Department’s regu-lation of assisted-living centers.
Morgan, 57, said he was brought into the Dilworth project as the “new idea person,” but in Williams’ closing argument, he cited testimony from Dilworth officials that said Morgan was hired to “watch our back.”
Morgan also said he became involved in Silver Oak through a friend who was also a lobbyist. He dis-puted testimony that he told a company official that a $1,000 payment was “the way it works.”
U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron last week dis-missed all charges against one of Morgan’s co-defen-dants, William Andrew Skeith, 53, of Edmond. She
also dismissed 32 charg-es, including a conspiracy count, against Stringer, 72, of Oklahoma City. Stringer still faces 29 counts in the case.
Cauthron said prosecu-tors did not present enough evidence that Skeith and Stringer were part of a con-spiracy in the case. Federal prosecutors dropped the conspiracy count against Morgan on Monday, but he remained charged with bribery, extortion and mail fraud.
Extortion and wire fraud charges carry penalties of up to 20 years in pris-on and a $250,000 fine, though under sentencing guidelines penalties are often less than the maxi-mum. Bribery carries a 10-year prison term and a $250,000 fine. The gov-ernment’s indictment also sought forfeiture of the alleged illegal payments to Morgan.
In another theft, Matthew Todd Olsen, 39, Durant, was charged Thursday with grand lar-ceny. That charge was the result of an investigation by Deputy Aubrey Stanfield into the theft of a car haul-er trailer owned by Keith Pickerill. According to an affidavit, Olsen took the trailer from the 400 block of East Fourth Avenue in Durant in October and sold it to a man who did not know it was stolen.
Dylan Joseph Henson, 20, Stillwater, was charged Thursday with second-degree burglary. According to an affidavit by Sheriff’s Investigator John Bates, Henson burglarized Steven Vannier’s property on River Road and stole guns, a weedeater, leaf blower and a trail camera, which was later recovered and showed an image of the suspect. The leaf blower and weedeater were sold to a pawn shop in Denison, Texas.
Harold Lee Rutz,59,
Durant, was charged Thursday with child abuse by injury. He is accused of picking up a 9-year-old girl on Feb. 11 and throw-ing her on the floor. An affidavit by Durant Police Detective Michael Shufeldt states that a witness dis-closed the Rutz, who was drunk, became angry with the girl, and that he picked her up and slammed her on the floor. The girl began bleeding from scratches on her chest and neck that were caused by Rutz’s fingernails, according to police, and she also had a bruise on the left shoulder.
Shufeldt later ques-tioned Rutz, and according to the affidavit, he said he was irritable and that he may have pushed the girl down due to being tired, irritable and drinking too much alcohol.
The affidavit states that Rutz said he was sorry and that he figured he would have to do some “jail time” for what he did. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
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waiting to vote is allowed within 50 feet of any ballot box on election day.”
She said it also is unlaw-ful to take intoxicating liquors of any kind or quantity to within one-half mile of a polling place on Election Day.
Two other violations also were discussed by Fahrendorf. “It is unlawful
for any person to disclose how he voted to any other person within the election enclosure,” Fahrendorf said. “And, it’s against the law for anyone to remove a ballot from the polling place or to carry a ballot into the polling place.”
For more information call the election board at 924-3228.
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Church events
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
• “DivorceCare, a divorce recovery semi-nar and support group continues at First Baptist Church, 124 W. Evergreen, Durant, with a new 13-week series that started on January 11, 2012. Weekly ses-sions are Wednesdays from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in Room 210. There is no obligation to attend First Baptist or any church to participate in this semi-nar/support group. All persons in the area who are currently experienc-ing separation or divorce or have experienced divorce even years ago are encouraged to attend. DivorceCare features on DVD nationally recog-nized experts on divorce and recovery topics. The cost to attend is $15.00, with scholarships avail-able. Childcare will be provided for preschool children. Activities are in place on Wednesday nights for children and youth. Pre-registration is requested, but not required. For more infor-mation, call the church at 924-3573, or Katherine
Brown at 924-1472, or e-mail kmbrown740@simplynet .net . For more information about DivorceCare, visit www.divorcecare.org.
• Celebrate Recovery, a 12-step Christ-centered recovery program for people with hurts, hang-ups and habits meets every Monday night at 6 p.m. in the Family Life Center at First Baptist Church, Durant, corner of Second and Beech. For more information, call 924-3573 or visit www.fbc.org and click on “Celebrate Recovery.” The group meets every Monday night, even on holidays.• Cornerstone Full
Gospel is located at 316 N. Main, Caddo.
Pastors are Brian and Pam Phillips 1-469-733-7691. Assistant Pastor Ira Hunter at 580-380-6038. No Sunday School is scheduled at this time.Sunday Morning Worship, 11 a.m.; Sunday evening, 6:00 p.m.; Thursday Youth
Service, 7 p.m. Wedding information please con-tact Rev. Ira Hunter of 380-6038. Please come, worship and lift up the name of Jesus with us. for He said, “If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me”. John 12.32
• Aunt Bea’s Clothes Closet has been reopened at 435 W. Tennessee St. Hours are from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. each Tuesday until further notice. This is a non-profit organiza-tion under the auspices of The House of Prayer Ministries. Everyone is welcome and donations are accepted.
• A recovery pro -gram targeting hurts, habits and hang-ups called Higher Ground Ministries will be held Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Dinner and childcare will be offered and donations are accepted. The group will meet at the First Baptist Church, 215 South Collins, Bennington. For more information, call the church at (580)
847-2321, Shelia Moss at (580) 367-0752 or the pastor at (580) 380-5099.
• The Lighthouse Church of Colbert holds a gospel singing on the second Friday of every month at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome. The church is located at 130 Somers (south of the post office), Colbert. For more information, call (903) 821-7361.
• Stone Creek Baptist has a breakfast every sec-ond Saturday at 9 a.m., and everyone is welcome to attend. The church also has Old-Time gospel singing at 6 p.m. Every fourth Sunday, special music, including solos, quartets and groups, are welcome. Bring snacks for the fellowship to fol-low. The church is locat-ed on Bryan and Folsom roads in Durant. For more information, call Fred Resz at 924-3405.
• Grace Baptist Church, located at 206 East Main, is continuing a study of an overview of
the Bible called “Journey of a Lifetime” Sunday at 10 a.m. The year-long study will be over each book of the Bible and the characters. The course is taught by Pastor Anthony Williams. Bro. Anthony invites the pub-lic to take part in the study. Initial cost for the notebook and study material is $10.
• The Nat ive American Mission, led by Pastor Dan McLemore, will meet every Thursday at 7 p.m. in the white building next to Fairview Baptist Church at 1200 N. University Blvd. Activities include praise, worship and fellowship. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more infor-mation, call 916-6635.
• Abundant Life Temple is hosting a week-ly singles Bible study and dinner that begins at 7 p.m. each Tuesday in the church’s annex building. For more information, call the church at 924-5646.
• Abiding Word is the name of the Bible study class that meets at 7 p.m. every Thursday at Abiding Grace Pentecostal Holiness Church, Denison, Texas. For more information, call Allen Whitley at (903) 624-3018.
• Grace Baptist Church, 206 E. Main St., Durant, invites the com-munity to participate in a time of prayer and fast-ing from 12-1 p.m. every Thursday.
• St William’s Catholic Church celebrates a bi-lingual Mass at 5:30 p.m. on the last Saturday of the month. La Iglesia Catolica de St. William’s celebra una Misa bilingue el ultimo sabado del mes a las 5:30 pm.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is open to the public for family history research every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The church is located at 515 Sunny Meadows.
By the Rev. Jack BallPastor, Faith Temple Pentecostal Church of God
Psalms 16:11“Thou wilt shew me
the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”This whole psalm is a
song David wrote and it is a song of trust. David
declares that he has put his trust in God and he is assured God will show him what path he should take in life.David was a man after
God’s own heart because he gave praise to God not only when everything was going good in his life but also when he failed God and was punished for his disobedience. David had found the key
to a joyful life and that was through praise and thanksgiving.Just as David found
that key it is still the same for us today. The Bible states that God inhabits or dwells in the praise of his people. Many times God has said to praise him.David said that in God’s
presence is the fullness of joy. God’s right hand
is a symbol of the posi-tion of a protector or a defender. The Bible tells us that Jesus sits on the right hand of God mak-ing intercession for you and me, Jesus is there pleading our cause and asking His father to grant our petitions.When we put our
whole trust in God then and only then do we find rest and peace. The Bible
says that Jesus has gone to prepare us a place that eye hath not seen nor hath ear heard what is in store for those who love Him. In God are the pleasures of life everlasting never to be sad, brokenhearted, or never will we have to say goodbye to those we love. Heaven is just what it says,” Heaven.”You know, this day and
time if you look around
you there is not a lot to be happy about and cer-tainly there is no stabil-ity in anything today, but one thing is sure Jesus will always be there and the Bible says He chang-es not.Jesus is the same yes-
terday, today, and forev-er. If Jesus said it then, it is still good for today. Put your trust In God and He will never let you down.
It’s time to put your trust in God
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Kathleen Murray, 11 and Bryn Murray, 6, the daugh-ters of Brian Murray and Monica Murray of McKinney, Texas, were recognized recently by the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney Texas for their volunteer work in 2011. Kathleen was awarded the ‘2011 Youth Volunteer of the Year’ and Bryn was given a ‘Special Recognition’ award from the animal care department. Both of the girls spent over thirty hours last year feeding and caring for a wide variety of exotic animals which are housed at the Heard, ranging from corn snakes and boa constrictors to leopard geckos and short tailed opossums.
Girls awarded for volunteer time with exotic animals
March 1,2012 — During March, the American Red Cross is asking everyone to help people in need by supporting the lifesaving services it provides.“Please remember
those who need our help and support the Red Cross by making a donation, becoming a volunteer, taking a class, or giving blood,” said Lynn Edwards, Chapter
Director. “We want to thank everyone for their generosity, which has enabled us help people here at home, across the United States, and around the world.”March is Red Cross
Month, first proclaimed in 1943 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since that time, every president, including President Obama, has
designated March as Red Cross Month. The American Red Cross is synonymous with help-ing people, and has been doing so for more than 130 years.The Red Cross responds
to nearly 70,000 disasters a year in this country, pro-viding shelter, food, emo-tional support and other necessities to those affect-ed. It provides 24-hour
support to members of the military, veterans and their families – in war zones, military hospitals and on military installa-tions around the world; collects and distributes more than 40 percent of the nation’s blood supply and trains more than 9 million people in first aid, water safety and other life-saving skills every year.
Here in the Eastern Oklahoma area chapter volunteers responded to 1371 emergencies, assist-ed 557 military families and trained 16,528 people in lifesaving skills. And, people from this area donated numerous lifesav-ing units of blood.“Red Cross Month is
a great time for people to support our mission,” Edwards said. “Their
kindness will enable us to continue our work, both here at home and across the globe.”The Red Cross is not a
government agency and relies on donations of time, money and blood to do its work. An average of 91 cents of every dollar given to the Red Cross is invested in helping the people the Red Cross ser-vices.
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Many people are looking to the many primary elec-tions on March 6th — “Super Tuesday” — to clarify where this year’s R e p u b l i c a n n o m i n a t i o n campaign is headed. It may clarify far more than that, including the future of this nation and of Western civilization.
If a clear winner with a commanding lead emerg-es, the question then becomes whether that candidate is someone who is likely to defeat Barack Obama. If not, then the fate of America — and of Western nations, includ-ing Israel — will be left in the hands of a man with a lifelong hostil-ity to Western values and Western interests.
President Obama is such a genial man that many people, across the ideological space, cannot see him as a danger. For every hundred people who can see his geniality, prob-ably only a handful see the grave danger his warped policies and ruthless tac-tics pose to a whole way of life that has given gen-eration after generation of Americans unprecedented freedom and prosperity.
The election next November will not be just another election, and the stakes add up to far more than the sum of the indi-vidual issues. Moreover, if reelected and facing no future election, what-ever political constraints may have limited how far Obama would push his radical agenda will be gone. He would have the closest thing to a blank check. Nothing could stop him but impeachment or a military coup, and both are very unlikely. A genial corrupter is all the more dangerous for being genial.
The four remaining Republican candidates have to be judged, not sim-ply by whether they would make good presidents, but by how well they can cut through Obama’s personal popularity and glib rheto-ric, to alert the voters as to the stakes in this year’s election.
Ron Paul? Even those of us who agree with much of his domestic agenda, including getting rid of the Federal Reserve System, cannot believe that his happy-go-lucky attitude toward Iran’s get-ting a nuclear weapon represents anything other than a grave danger to the whole Western World.
Rick Santorum has pos-sibilities, but can he sur-vive the media’s constant attempts to paint him as some kind of religious nut who would use the
go v e r n m e n t to impose his views on oth-ers? And, if he can, will he also be able to go toe-to-toe with Obama in debates? I would not bet the rent money on it. And what is
at stake is far bigger than the rent money.
Mitt Romney is the kind of candidate that the Republican establish-ment has always looked for, a moderate who can appeal to independents. It doesn’t matter how many such candidates have turned out to be disasters on election night, going all the way back to Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.
Nor does it matter that the Republicans’ most suc-cessful candidate of the 20th century — Ronald Reagan, with two consecu-tive landslide victories at the polls — was nobody’s idea of a mushy moderate. He stood for something. And he could explain what he stood for. These may sound like modest achievements, but they are very rare, especially among Republicans.
Newt Gingrich is the only candidate still in the field who can clearly take on Barack Obama in one-on-one debate and cut through the Obama rheto-ric and mystique with hard facts and plain logic. Nor is this just a matter of hav-ing a gift of gab. Gingrich has a far deeper grasp of both the policies and the politics than the other Republican candidates. Does Gingrich have politi-cal “baggage”? More than you could carry on a com-mercial airliner. Charges of opportunism have been among the most serious raised against the former Speaker of the House. But being President of the United States is the opportunity of a lifetime. If that doesn’t sober a man up, it is hard to imagine what would.
Do any of the Republican candidates seem ideal? No. But, the White House cannot be left vacant, while we hope for a bet-ter field of candidates in 2016. We have to make our choice among the alternatives actually avail-able, of which Obama is by far the worst.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
Super Tuesday
Thomas Sowell
Both of the leading Republican can-didates have an authenticity problem — they possess too much of it.
Rick Santorum is an authen-tic social con-servative who seems to believe that the nation can be argued into moral self-improvement. It is the high calling of a Jesuit high-school teacher but is less appealing in a presiden-tial contender.
Mitt Romney is an authentic rich person. Not that there is anything wrong with that. America’s capacious tolerance should extend even to the wealthy, who have the added chal-lenge of trying to fit through a needle’s eye.
Romney’s wealth is not ill-gotten. His problem is political. He talks about money as though engaged in a discussion with his stockbroker. So $374,000 from paid speeches is “not very much.” He is “not concerned about the very poor,” on the assumption that the safety net is enough for them. His wife “drives a couple of Cadillacs.” While not a racing enthusiast him-self, Romney has “some great friends that are NAS-CAR team owners.”
A single gaffe is a politi-cal flesh wound. A series of gaffes that confirm a damag-ing stereotype is potentially
fatal.These blun-
ders not only reinforce a t r a d i t i o n a l Re p u b l i c a n w e a k n e s s , they threaten to dimin-ish a large Re p u b l i c a n a d v a n t a g e — Barack Obama’s dra-matic discon-nect with blue-collar whites.
The candidate who talked of small-town Americans as clinging “to guns or reli-gion” lost white working-class voters by 18 points in 2008. In 2010, congressio-nal Democrats lost the same group by 30 points. A simi-larly dismal performance by Obama in 2012 would open vast blue portions of the electoral map to Republican raids.
Romney may be the only candidate capable of herd-ing working-class voters back toward the president. Throughout the primaries, Romney has led among college-educated whites and underperformed among vot-ers without college degrees. Obama’s approval among working-class voters, while still poor, has been trending upward.
Romney’s wealth prob-lem, while serious, is not insoluble. But the alterna-tive to his upper-crust authenticity is not populist inauthenticity. When he jokes with voters that he is currently “unemployed,” or
recalls “a couple of times when I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip,” he compounds his error. For many Americans, a pink slip means turning to a food pantry. Romney, presumably, would have other options. There are few things more offensive than patronizing empathy.
Incapable of chang-ing his economic tribe, Romney will need to make the best of his background. If Americans don’t want a successful management consultant as president, he stands little chance. But a good case can be made for an economic manager after a period of disappoint-ing economic performance and spectacular fiscal irre-sponsibility. In a stagnant economy, the promotion of economic growth and opportunity is not only a technocratic goal; it is a moral cause.
During the general-elec-tion campaign, Romney will also need to direct some of his economic attention to the specific needs of strug-gling Americans, not just to the overall health of the economy. His more conser-vative advisers may dismiss this as pandering — prov-ing how little they know of presidential politics. Policy proposals are symbols of a candidate’s values and pri-orities. Romney will have to say something about improving failed schools, encouraging college atten-dance or updating job train-ing efforts — really about anything that shows a prac-
tical concern for economic mobility.
But even good policy has limits. Voters need to know that Romney has at least witnessed the struggles he has not shared. When another wealthy politician, Robert F. Kennedy, toured Appalachia a week before his presidential announce-ment, Americans under-stood that he had met people and seen things that don’t leave a man unchanged. Romney must give some evidence — visiting, say, a low-income health clinic or a gang-occupied school — that his hand has touched, that his retina has regis-tered, the hurt and hardship of another America.
“For the fortunate among us,” RFK said, “there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of educa-tion. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. … The future does not belong to those who are con-tent with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike. … Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason and courage in a per-sonal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society.”
If Romney can demon-strate this commitment — personally and authentically — he may yet become presi-dent of the United States.
How Mitt Romney can make the most of his weakness
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
Michael Gerson
I would like to respond to the letter of Essie Milligan in the Feb. 21 Durant Daily Democrat. Ms. Milligan, perhaps you have misun-derstood the reason for the changes in our voting places. Our election board are not the ones who are forcing these unwelcome changes upon us.
They are simply obey-ing instructions they have received. These instruc-
tions came from three levels of our government - the federal, the state and the county. When Ms. Fahrendorf and the other ladies at the election board get these instructions, they have to follow them.
There is one other cause for some of the changes. Sometimes the places (such as some of the churches) where we vote have decid-ed they no longer want
their place to be used for voting. When that happens, Ms. Fahrendorf has to get out and find another place where the people of that precinct can be allowed to vote.
I am sorry that you and your friends have been so inconvenienced by the changes in your precinct voting place. But there is still one easy way for all of us to vote. We can vote
by mail. If you can mail a letter, you can mail in your ballot. I understand that in some states, such as Oregon, that is the only way to vote. Nothing could be more convenient.
I hope you will keep on voting because you can never do anything more American than to vote.
Kate BallDurant
Letter to the Editor
THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT 5 FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT 6LIFESTYLES/LOCALFRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
HOLLYWOOD—God bless America, and how’s everybody?
ABC announced the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday drew the big-gest TV ratings in years, attracting nearly forty mil-lion viewers. The curios-ity factor was huge. Think about it, how many times in your life do you get a chance to see the French declare victory?
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the days of private health insurance in America are coming to an end. She’s going to force insurance companies to sell policies to people who are already sick. She just made Blue Cross sell a pol-icy to Steven Hawking that includes Vi*gr*.
Hugh Hefner’s twenty-year-old son Marston was charged in Pasadena for assaulting his girlfriend in their apartment. She is okay now. Afterwards Hugh Hefner had a stern talk with Marston and told him there’s a right way and a wrong way to disrespect women.
Lindsay Lohan will get to host Saturday Night Live after her judge gave her a glowing report. It’s the
standard Hollywood proba-tion agreement. Lindsay’s agreed to attend recovery meetings, get therapy and introduce the judge to the producer of Law and Order.
Bill Clinton spoke to an energy convention Tuesday and he backed the Keystone oil pipeline. He said it’s easy to go around the aquifers and sand hills. It just shows that if you pay a Democrat a ninety thousand dollar speaking fee, we can be energy independent.
Mitt Romney held ser-vice in the GOP Michigan primary Tuesday. He won handily in the Arizona pri-mary. Also Home Depot’s founder announced he is supporting Mitt Romney, which is nice because Mitt Romney was originally assembled with parts from
Home Depot.Rick Santorum’s request
for Secret Service agents to guard him on the campaign trail was granted Monday and the agents were at the candidate’s side within hours. Getting used to it is not easy. It’s the first time Rick Santorum has ever used protection of any kind.
Newt Gingrich enjoyed an upsurge in the polls Wednesday as Southerners rallied to his candidacy for next week’s Super Tuesday primary. His campaign was written off for dead twice. A win Tuesday and he breaks Israel’s record for most number of resurrec-tions.
North Korea’s leader agreed to give up his nucle-ar weapons in exchange for American food to feed
their people. The fact that they want American food tells you something. North Koreans do not want to die in a nuclear holocaust, they want to die of an obesity epidemic.
President Obama spoke to the UAW Tuesday and promised to buy a Chevy Volt when he leaves office. It makes no sense political-ly. President Obama’s never going to get the NASCAR vote anyway, so why should he promise to drive a car that bursts into flames?
Hank Haney revealed Tiger Woods almost joined the Navy SEALs six years ago. It was a pointless exer-cise. Even if Tiger knew in advance that his wife was going to hit him with a golf club, Florida law would not allow him to land on the
roof and blow her head off.The U.S. Army began
a color-coded cafeteria menu food program. It’s to help soldiers differentiate between healthy choices and fatty ones. Do we really want people carrying weap-ons if they cannot tell the difference between a head of lettuce and a head of al-Qaeda?
The NFL moved its sea-son opener from Thursday to Wednesday to avoid conflicting with President Obama’s convention speech in Charlotte. He wants the airwaves all to himself and his face on every channel. He just warned the Home Shopping network that dur-ing the hour-long speech he expects them to sell TV sets that are tuned in to his speech.
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Lohan to host Saturday Night Live
Dear Annie: Our son’s first marriage ended in divorce 10 years ago. From that union, we have a won-derful 13-year-old grand-son.
Our ex-daughter-in-law, “June,” remarried quickly, and that marriage failed about 18 months ago. Apparently, she used our names as a credit reference, because we’ve been getting calls from several collection agencies asking for June by her most recent married name. After the first call, I told the agency I would not give out her phone number but would have June call
them. I sent her a letter with the pertinent informa-tion. She phoned and said I should tell these callers I don’t know her.
Lately, I’ve responded to these agencies by saying June hasn’t been in the fam-ily for 10 years and I don’t know how to reach her. Lying isn’t my normal oper-ating procedure, but in this instance, it seems the saf-est. I don’t know what type of retribution there would be for our son, our grand-son or us if June thought we turned her in. The calls are getting more frequent, and we’re tired of them. What
do you suggest? — Ex-In-Laws
Dear In-Laws: There are laws in place to prevent harassment of third par-ties by collection agencies. Keep in mind, however, that if the collection agen-cies have reason to believe you are lying to them about June’s location, you might not have much recourse in getting them to stop. But please report any problems you have with a debt col-lector to your state attor-ney general’s office and the Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov).
Dear Annie: My husband recently retired, but I still work full time at an office. My problem? My husband does not feel he should have to help me in any way with the household chores. He absolutely refuses.
I have asked him numer-ous times to please put din-ner on before I get home
from work, but it falls on deaf ears. I might add that he’s an excellent cook when he is so inclined. A number of his friends are also retired, and they joke among themselves about how domesticated they have become around the house, but my husband just won’t budge. I even mow the lawn in the summer and shovel the snow in winter.
I may as well be living on my own. I’m not getting any younger and am simply too tired to keep up with everything along with my full-time job. All I ask is that he take over a couple of chores so I can have a little downtime on the weekends. Is this too much to ask? Don’t suggest a housekeep-er. He would never allow it. Nor would he ever go for counseling. — Tired and Worn Out in Canada
Dear Tired: Might your husband be depressed since
retiring? It is not uncom-mon and could explain his lethargy and intransigence. But you should not be exhausted because he can-not or will not help out. If you are earning enough to hire housekeeping help, we recommend you do so whether he approves or not. You also could mini-mize your efforts around the house so that you handle your own laundry and meals and leave him to cook and clean for himself. Of course, he still may not lift a finger, but at least you won’t be doing his work as well as your own.
Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Heartbroken Mother,” whose daughter thinks her family will be an embarrassment at her upscale wedding.
I chuckled because, recently, a friend was extremely worried about her “rough and tumble”
blue-collar family behaving properly at her well-planned and expensive wedding to a wonderful professional man.
Well, liquor can even the playing field. Her fam-ily behaved perfectly. The groom’s upscale family, however, nearly ruined the event. — Michigan
Annie’s Mailbox is writ-ten by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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Superintendant’s Honor Roll
First Grade:Paris Al-Khateib, Nakni Anna,
Jayson Arnold, Jake Arthur, Aviana Baca, Brook Barron, Haley Barron, Abby Boger, Jayla Brown, Kassie Canant, Ashley Cardoza, Emma Carey, Meagan Chambers, Josh Chavez, Johnny Church, Camryn Corbin, Aiden Dills, Haley Dimas, Emily Dodd, Will Edgeman, Jackson Farmer, Landon Farmer, Isabel Feltman, Hannah Feuerhelm, Chasetin Gailey, Luis Garcia, Cael Garner, Carlea Garner, Austin Garrison, Eran Gray, Jazziel Gutierrez, Abigail Haney, Pazlee Hankey, Marshall Hatch, Jacob Hill, Kane Hoffman, Jade Huang, Kaiten Hudson, Kanyon Hunter, Jayden Hutchings, Shyler Ingram, Olivia Kemp, Donald Koehne, Gracie Krueger, Rylan Lain, Bryce Langford, Madi Leslie, Danielle Lewis, Nick Manners, Corbn Massey, Jaxson Mcclure, Jayla Mcwilliams, Donovan Minichello, Mackenzie Monroe, Payton Nix, Addison Parker, Jon Perkins, Addison Pettett, Kaylee Price, Lydia Raines, Michelle Ramirez, Kyle Ratliff, Brianna Rhodes, Kaitly Ribera, Landon Shields, Avery Smith, Alex Stair, Quillan Taylor, Brinleigh Wandel, Trinity Webb, Noah Whitman, Audra Wickersham, Ethan Wilkerson, Nickolas Williams, Coleman Winborn, Olivia Yandell.
Second Grade:Sarah Akin, Brendan Barker,
Dylan Bates, Alaria Bell, Amy Beranek, Kimbree Boston, Mia Collins, Macy Cox, Diana Cruz, Marley Culp, Noah Dodson,
Jakobi Edwards, Katie Fox, Trevor Golden, Bryan Gray, Mercedes Gray, Abi Gregory, Kelsea Griffin, Gracyn Gross, Holly Haislip, Ned Hill, Faith Hollowell, Alyssa Kanoff, Emily Lee, Alex Martin, Garrett Mason, Alexis Mcdaniel, Isabellah Molina, Madi Nix, Alyssa Perez, Taylor Piearcy, Eli Pyle, Carson Robinson, Maya Rowland, Chase Roy, Kaleb Rudewick, Mason Seay, Gavin Springer, Dylan Stovall, Estrella Stringfellow, Jessica Tran, Caitlyn Trobaugh, Alexa West, Chris West, Zane White, Rylee Yandell.
Third Grade:Isaac Aguero, Fanny Baca,
Racy Barton, Katie Beach, Grant Boger, Grace Boman, Cheyenne Bridges, Kylin Brown, Tyler Burgess, Anna Carey, Noah Clark, Hayden Collier, , Jeffrey Connell, Chase Corbin, Aiden Couch, Nancy Dodd, Emily Farr, Will Farr, Chloe Gibson, Mia Giles, Caitlyn Hall, Royal Hartley, Brady Holaday, Lauren Horner, Madyson Ingram, Shaylie Ingram, Cason Keel, Gavin King, Tagen Jamison, Zoe Leslie, Sutton Lindley, Paige Maples, James Marquez, Julia Mason, Jadyn Mcclure, Shawna Morrow, Xander Parsons, Taylor Patton, Gracie Powell, Jhoanna Ramirez, Douglas Ratliff, Jayda Ray, Nic Reeves, Kobain Reid, Wyatt Robinson, Ty Rudolf, Landri Sims, Dillon Smith, Joshua Smith, Aaron Staple, Maci Stout, Santana Strayhorn, Madyson Tolbert, Caleb Washington, Nick Weaver, Presley Williams, Kelly Wilson, Carter Womble, Mackenzie Woods, Rogelio Vera.
Principal’s Honor Roll:First Grade:Shauna Bowen, Donovan
Collins, Logan Cook, Casen Dills, Breanna Garrett, Trevon Glaser, Madison Gresham, Jade Guzman, Charley Hampton, Kaitlyn Horton, Allison Jorgenson, Kyson Leonard, Abigail Leslie, Dean Maples, Matt Manners, Audi Martinez, Vance Miller, Caitlynn Norton, Allie Patterson, Miguel Perez, Charlotte Robinson, Jesse Shipman, David Shores, Ashton Staple, Kenneth St. Clair, Jonas Swope, Keionte Turner, Daquan Ware.
Second Grade:Jacob Anderson, Carter Ansiel,
Angelina Arguelles, Francisco Avila, Zane Benedict, Kassidy Brackett, Piper Clymore, Nicolas Crouse, Matthew Echols, Logan Edgeman, Chase Eisel, Treyton Hart, Jaren Hendricks, Jackson House, Jalik Lewis, Mallorie, Norton, Seth Pilgrim, Rylee Richardson, Santiago Sanchez, Carlie Sargent, Allison Shannon, Logan Shaw, Landon Smith, Chloe Thomas, Davonte White, Brady Whitman, Amree Wingfield.
Third Grade:Cameron Allivand, Mazie Bell,
Robby Bilbay, Elizabeth Blakley, Trinity Blevins, Jose Cano, Emily Compton, Ciera Conner, Kendra Cryer, Taylor Dodd, Carson Garner, Tjun Gibson, Heaven Kennedy, Brennon Lehr, Ali Madrid, Logan Pace, Sidney Paris, Kelley Rainer, Megan Reyes, Peggy Robinson, Kassidy Rymel, Carlie Sanders, Mackenzie Westmoreland, Jordan Wolf, William Ye
Northwest Heights Elementary School first semester honor roll
NWH Fine Dining NWH Writing Contest WinnersTerrific Kids
NWH Students were invited to the Sodex Fine Dining Program. Students were given the opportunity to a elegant dining experience. Back row (left to right) Fanny Baca, Taylor Dodd, Logan Polk, Dalaina Moores, Royal Hartley, Aaron Staple, Kendra Cryer, Selena Hernandez, Kelly Wilson, Mia Giles, Heaven Kennedy. Middle row (left to right) Nick Weaver, Kobain Reid, Trinity Blevins, Jeffrey Connell, Jose Cano, Tyler Burgess. Front row (Left to Right) Wyatt Robinson, Douglas Ratliff, Kelley Rainer.
Washington Irving Terrific Kids for the month of February are: (pictured left to right, back row) Neel Gautam (Terrific Kid for the month of January), Kendra Gibson, Karis Cole, Laken Seeton and Azure Ammons-Coxsey. (Third row)Jessica Odom, Katin Nguyen, Riley Nguyen and Josue Arroyo. (Second row) Maddie Moon (Terrific Kid for the month of December), Shayne Phelps and Hannah Pecor. (First row) Angel Ibarra, Clayton Francis, Tyler Wesley, Trinity Norman and Andres Garcia. Also pictured are Kiwanis representatives Roy Brown and Alison Hansen.
These first grade students participated in the Northwest Heights Writing Contest and were awarded “Homeroom Winners,”: Emma Carey, Lydia Raines, Carlea Garner, Cael Garner, Paris Al-Khateib, Pazlee Hankey, Olivia Yandell, Chasetin Gailey, Isabel Feltman, Marcal Lewis. They were asked to write a “Love Story” about the noun (person, place or thing) they loved the most.
2nd Nine WeeksSuperintendent’s1st gradeDestiny Ash, Keely Blakley,
Travis Bradshaw, Elizabeth Harrison, Zoey Hill, Jacob Nelson, Camdyn Williams, Mason Dunegan, Alexander Hopkins, Elijah Mullins, Delaney Phelan, Tagen Simon, Benjirman Tom, McKayla Batey, Katie Nichols, Will Talkington, Gabe Washington, Rainie Wolf
Second GradePayci Cloyd, Rae Hill, Emree
Hutchens, Jenny Jones, Gage Miller
Third GradeMakenzie Clark, Cassie
Turner, Jessyka Colbert, Mason Burkhalter, Malorie Clark, Faith Hill, T.J. Impson,
Fourth GradeJacob Long, Hanna Manners,
Tyler Willman,Fifth GradeMatthew Armstrong, Danielle
Harrison, Kaden Johnson, Justin Nichols, Kaitlyn Nazworth, Oliva Pettyjohn, Emma Brewer, Amy Cheshire, Darrian Swafford
Sixth GradeKacie Clower, Julie Cullum,
Braeden McKee, Kaleb Merritt, Jensen Simmons, Elizabeth Trammell,. William Sandler, Conner Doyle, Britney Roland
Principal’sFirst GradeKagan Hail, Lexi Harvey,
Hailey Johnson, Sophia Brewer, Myah Matlock, Tyler Melton, Doubtlynn, Robbins, Balynn Snapp, Hunter Waller, Jayden Densmore, Travis Easley, Ashlynn Granger, Skylar Sessums
Second GradeDakoata Cagle, Christina
Clark, Hailey Hunnicutt, Brynnan Kirk, Lexi McDonald, Lex Simon, Delaney
Smith, Jordan Wylie, Jenni Toone, Luke Tolle, Isaiah Floyd, Jami Dunfee, Kaylee O’Neill, Jayden Manous, Traven Green, Rylie Curry, Melody East, Colton Martin, Ashley Metcalf, Mechell Nygaard,
Third GradeNavy Wesberry, Halle
Rowland, Jacoby Simmons, Kendyl Blakley, Marshall Ludrick, Preston Pratt, Abby Stanley, Zak Underwood, Colby Doyle, Hannah Felton, William Griffith, Bailey Hawkins, Elizabeth Hracek, Makayla Pippin, Delton Swindle
Fourth GradeDillon Bumgarner, Brett
Forgy, Jace “Patch” Hamilton, Tesla Holley, Katie Taylor, Hastings Frederick, Cassidy Long, Cord McDonald, Cody Parker, Ashlynn Salsbury, Waylon Stanley, Angel Waugh, Korben Ford, Gabriela Martinez, Trevan Nelson, Lauren Phillips, Savanna Shults, Issis Vera, Jason Weibel
Fifth GradeDustin Barron, Hunter
Bradley, Dalton Dougherty, Taylor Shives, Darrian Swafford, Montana Bundrant, Shane Collier, Megan O’Brien
Sixth GradeKensea Blakley, Jordan
Logan, Bailey Bradley, Luke Culley, Lauren Ford, Autumn Miller, Kelsey Smith, Jessen Pratt, Chloe Cresse, Aaron Hracek, Alys Parr, Brianna Phillips
Silo Elementary second nine weeks honor roll
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Durant Daily Democrat
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
Zach MaxwellSports Reporter
CACHE - The rematch of the girls’ Bryan County Tournament champi-onship was a pitched battle between Colbert and Silo on Thursday. Too bad it was nearly 200 miles from home.
The Lady Leopards emerged 48-45 victors in Thursday’s area playoff game, ending a stellar Silo Lady Rebel season. Darian Bradford led Colbert with 16 points, and Katherine Hair’s hot shooting helped her score 14. Colbert plays again at 1:30 p.m. on Friday in Cache.
Similarly, the Lady Rebels got a 15 point outburst from Brittney Burns, who has rarely led the team in scoring this season. Senior post Beth Loudermilk scored 13 against Colbert’s tough inside defender Taylor Lyons.
“It’s really hard to beat a team three times, especially one as good as this,” said Colbert Coach Chris Gillespie. “Our pressure didn’t seem to bother them as much, but we made some plays when it counted.”
Silo took an early 7-6 lead as both teams came out hesitant on offense and aggressive on defense. Heroes emerged in the second quarter as Burns scored six and Loudermilk five for Silo. They led 21-17 at the half.
Hair and Bradford found their shooting touch in the second half, helping Colbert on a 15-6 third quar-ter run. They led by five at the end of the third, but Silo outscored them 11-6 in the fourth. The Lady Leopards were up by three when Silo’s Torrie Wright nailed a deep corner shot to tie the game with 18 seconds remain-ing.
Bradford scored six in overtime to help Colbert secure the win. She says she drew inspiration from the tradi-tion of Colbert basketball.
“A lot of our parents played ball here, so for us to continue the tradi-
tion means so much for us,” Bradford said. “It makes us want to play harder, to keep fighting and show we deserve it.”
“We tip our hat to Colbert,” said Silo Coach Dax Simon. “Our kids competed hard and played well, and we had more positive than negative. Our ids hit some big shots, but we should have done better at the free throw line. We had chances to win.”
Silo held the Lady Leopards to six free throws in the fourth quarter, and no field goals. Behind Burns and Loudermilk, Kenslie Stanley scored seven, Wright had six and Rachel Grider four.
Behind Bradford and Hair, Colbert’s Taylor Lyons and Ginavee Mowles scored seven each; Morgan Wright had four.
Zach MaxwellSports Reporter
CACHE - Kolby Johnson took over the Bruins, scoring 28 points in their 20-point playoff win over Wewoka on Thursday.
Who will be the hero on Friday? Caddo must win today and Saturday to move on to the state finals next week.
Thursday was a big step toward the Big House. Caddo dominated the Tigers in the second half, outscoring Wewoka 35-15 to take a 57-37 victory in the 2A area consolation playoff opener. The win sets up a 3 p.m. Friday game against Thomas-Fay-Custer.
Caddo (No. 7) is the only top 15 team left in the Cache area bracket. Wewoka was No. 15 according to Coachesaid.com; Thomas is unranked, but they lost to Latta in overtime on Thursday. Latta defeated Caddo in the regional round eight days ago.
Caddo Coach Kris Hall was confident after Thursday’s win. “We talk-ed all week about getting Konar (Hall) and Kolby the ball in the high post,” he said. “Our defense and rebounding were the differ-ence in the ballgame. We didn’t feel like they could beat us from the perimeter.”
Wewoka missed a ton of shots from the arc, as well as close range. Except for a 16-point outburst in the sec-ond quarter, Caddo held the Tigers to six, four and 11 points in the other quarters.
Peyton Joines was
responsible for a good portion of the disruptive defense of the Bruins: “In our defense, those back two guys (Joines and Rylan Miller) have a big job,” Hall said. “(Joines) will go get some rebounds. His rota-tions are good out of our zones, so he’s always in a passing lane.”
Joines collected at least half a dozen steals in Thursday’s game, feed-ing long outlet passes to Johnson and Ty Miller in the second half.
For most of three quar-ters, Caddo struggled to fend off Wewoka’s defense early on. The Bruins took a 12-6 lead at the end of one, but the game was tied
22-22 at the half. Caddo was ahead by five in the closing moments of the third when Johnson hit a half-court shot at the buzzer.
“I was looking to throw it to Ty (Miller), but a guy got on him, so I just let it go,” Johnson said. He described the playoff atmosphere as “nerve-racking,” especially since the girl’s game before Caddo’s contest featured two Bryan County teams - and went to overtime.
Johnson scored 14 in the fourth quarter. Konar Hall had 11 in the game, Ty Miller finished with 8, Rylan Miller had five, Joines three, and Ryan Minyard and Blake Phillips had a free throw each.
By Randy BruceSports Editor
NORMAN-The Lady Lions (20-5) had its 15-game winning streak
snap by the Shawnee Lady Wolves (27-0) in Area Playoffs Thursday night, 62-20. The Lady Lions are not out the running for the State Championship. They
play Altus Lady Bulldogs in the losers bracket this Saturday in Norman at 3:00 p.m. and if they win they are back in the running for the State Playoffs.
The Lady Wolves defen-sive pressure gave the Lady Lions fits throughout night, causing the Lions to turn the ball over and put up contested shots. They also couldn’t stop the Lady Wolves in the paint, as they scored at will.
“They (Shawnee) are just good. When the score was about eight to two,” said head coach Chad Rumer, “I thought we were alright. But when got down by 10 points, we just got scared and we didn’t play very well. Like I told them in the locker room, I have never seen our group that scared before. But on the good side, we get to play another day.”
In the first period the game was tied 2-2 in the opening minutes, then Shawnee went on a 6-0 run.
Kortney Boyd snap the run when she went to the free throw line and made both baskets. Then the Lady Wolves hit two 3-pointers and made another basket to close out the period with a 16-5 lead.
Kaylie Baxter had two points and Boyd had three points.
Shots weren’t going down for the Lady Lions in the second period as Durant could only mustard three points in the quar-ter. The Lady Wolves lead swelled to 25-8 heading into the half time. Baxter had two points and Boyd had one point, all points came from the free throw line.
The Lady Lions started the third period with a turn-over that led to Shawnee’s first points of the half. However, the Lady Lions bounced back with back-to-back 3-pointers from Shaina Crites and Baxter. Then the Lions offense went silent and the Lady
Wolves went on a 23-3 run to close out the the period with a 48-17 lead. Baxter had six points and Crites had three points.
The Lady Wolves kept their foot on the pedal in the final frame as they out scored the the Lady Lions 14-3 to put the game away.
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - An 18-2 run by Ouachita Baptist to open the second half erased a Southeastern halftime lead and led to an 85-65 loss in the first round of the Great American Conference Tournament on Thursday night in Bartlesville, Okla.
The loss drops the Savage Storm to 12-17 to finish the season. The 12 wins by SE are the most in a season since the 2006-07 campaign.
Zac Downing finished his Southeastern career with a team-best 16 points, but con-nected on just two three pointers.
He was joined in double figures by Urald King and Antonio Worthy who each posted 11 points.
Worthy showed why he was named the
conference Freshman of the Year, add-ing seven rebounds and a team-high five blocked shots.
The Storm shot 43.9 percent for the game, but saw its second half number dip after hitting 50.0 percent for the first half.
The difference in halves was felt especial-ly from long range where SE saw a 5-for-10 effort in the first half from three-point range turn into a 1-for-10 effort in the second half.
Steven Kohli led the Storm rebounding effort with eight, however Southeastern was out-rebounded on the night by a 39-to-30 margin, with OBU holding a 13-to-8 advantage on the offensive glass.
Chris Roussell dished out a team-high four assists, while Downing and Carliss
Robinson each added three.SE fell behind early, trailing by as many
as eight point in the early going of the contest.
The Storm then turned in an 8-0 run that had five points from downing and was capped by a three-point play from Worthy to tie the game at 17-17 with 12:47 to play in the half.
A short 37 seconds later, a Kohli three would drop to put SE in front 20-18.
That lead would grow to 35-28 with 3:34 to play when James Harris hit a three.
The Tigers, however, would finish the half by outscoring the Storm 6-2, leaving SE with a 37-36 lead at the break.
OBU scored the first three points of the
second half, but King would answer with a layup to knot the game at 39-39 at the 19:13 mark.
The Tigers would then score the next 15 points to mount a 54-39 lead by the 16”07 mark.
Southeastern would twice cut it back to as close as seven points, the first on a Kohli layup with 13:10 to play and later on a pair of Kohli free throws with 11:17 remaining.
That was as close as the game would get, however as OBU would go on a 17-3 run to push its lead out to 76-55 with 5:05 remaining.
SE would get it back to 17 points on two occasions before the teams settled on the 85-65 final score.
SE Men fall to OBU in GAC Tournament
Down but not out
KJ dominates as Bruins advance in playoffs
Kaylie Baxter has the ball poked away in Thursday’s night game against Shawnee. Baxter led her team in scoring with 13 points.
Sierra Moore puts up a shot under pressure Thursday night against Shawnee Lady Wolves. Moore was held scoreless and foul-out in the beginning minutes of the fourth period.
Shawnee downs the Lady Lions in Area Playoffs
Kolby Johnson took over the game Thursday against Wewoka scoring 28 points.
Darian Bradford led Colbert with 16 points in a the win over Silo Thursday night.
Classic: Colbert edges Silo in epic basketball battle
BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun
BEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne
HI & LOIS Brian and Greg Walker
FUNKY WINKERBEAN Tom Batiuk
MUTTS Patrick McDonnell
THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane
DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum
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CONCEPTIS SUDOKUby Dave Green
Friday, March 2, 2012 ComiCs/EntErtainmEnt
Today’s Answers
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, March 2, 2012:
This year creativity surges. You also will have a tendency to romanti-cize situations. Test reality by brain-storming with family and/or friends. Confusion could surround communica-tion, as your mind often will drift. You pull the wild card financially. You can expect swift changes either way. If you are single, be aware of how much you are projecting your dreams and desires onto a new person. If you are attached, the two of you are likely to go on a second honeymoon. A new addition to the household also is likely. CANCER is as emotional as you are.
The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You are more on top
of your work than you realize. The immense amount of work you have already cleared out allows you to head home early. Nearly everywhere you go, you might encounter the unexpect-ed. Tonight: Be spontaneous. Invite everyone over to your house.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Sometimes you underes-
timate how much you have to offer. Though a misunderstanding could arise from out of nowhere, stop and be aware of how much you care about people. Lady luck comes through regarding your ability to unravel a com-munication knot. Tonight: Say “yes” to the right invitation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You could feel as if you
are out of control in the morning. You bounce from one item to another. Someone you counted on could dis-appoint you and create a last-minute flurry. Understand what you can and cannot do. Tonight: Join friends.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH The unexpected occurs
with a parent or higher-up. Know that you can handle it, no matter what occurs. Do not make a big deal of what goes on, as another party could become embarrassed later on. Be as gracious as possible. Tonight: Expect to be popular.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Play it low-key. Some of you
might decide to cancel appointments or call it an early weekend. People will notice, but you simply might need some quiet time to get your work done or handle a personal matter. You gain a new perspective on an old problem.
Tonight: Put out your unavailable sign.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Consider alternatives in a
meeting to resolve a problem concern-ing an associate. In fact, the issue could evolve in a meeting. Allow more brainstorming. You cannot always be so controlling! Make sure you are on budget. Tonight: Where people are.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You could be off and tense
about an appearance in the near future. You want to assume the lead, but complications in your dealings worry you. Relax and work with the unpredictable. Know that success can be yours. Tonight: Could go to the wee hours.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You might want to try
another approach. Finish up some research, and realize when you can-not go any further. An element of the unexpected punctuates your plans. Be ready to regroup and rebuild. Opt for a new path. Tonight: Distance yourself from the day.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might want to switch
gears, partially because it is Friday, but also because a partner needs your time. Realize that you might disappoint others by not following your normal routine. A very fun but shocking hap-pening occurs with a loved one or friend. Tonight: Dinner for two.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH What you thought you would
do yesterday is far different from what you will choose today. Somehow, someone close to you can’t seem to understand why you cannot be with him or her more. As a result, you could witness some acting out. Tonight: Defer to a partner or loved one.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You could be left holding the
bag when dealing with others. It seems that someone wants much more than you want to give. Do not be surprised when he or she acts out. Focus on getting what you need to get done. Tonight: Off to the gym, then home. Clear your mind.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH Others admire your intrin-
sically caring manner and enormous creativity. How you see a situation could change radically because of a sudden financial change. Verify what is happening first. Tonight: Be with your favorite person.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE ofproperty to satisfy landlord'slien. Sale is at 10:30 am, Sat-urday, March 10, 2012 atWestside Storage, 716 North49 th, Durant, Oklahoma.Property will be sold to highestbidder for cash. Seller re-serves right to withdraw prop-erty from sale. Property in-cludes contents of spaces offollowing tenants: LindaCross, 1642 FM 1310, Deni-son, TX 75020, Unit A35, dol-lies, luggage, sewing machine,miscellaneous; April Marlatt,517 N. Third, Durant, OK74701, Unit B34, table, chairs,washer, dryer, end table,boxes miscellaneous; AmandaNeurenberg, 1822 E. Wood-craft Rd., Bennington, OK74723, Unit B38, couch,stroller, chest, miscellaneous;Lisa Radasinovich, 1333County Rd. 1190, Tuttle, OK73089, Unit B49, file cabinets,furniture, boxes miscellaneoushousehold; Sigus Johnson,315 East Washington, Calera,OK 74730, Unit C1, car seat,totes, miscellaneous house-hold; Casey Vaughn, PO Box583, Durant, OK 74702, UnitC45, chairs, microwave,clothes, pallets, miscellaneoushousehold; John Turner, 92Trenton Ln., Mead, OK73449, Unit E29, grill, tire,hammer, miscel laneoushousehold; James Hamilton,18 Blackjack Rd., Durant, OK74701, Unit F27, paint, boxes,miscellaneous household; Jes-sica St. Clair, PO Box 546, Du-rant, OK 74702, Unit G17,plastic containers, boxes, mis-cellaneous household; JoshGibson, 1102 Parkview Drive,Durant, OK 74701, Unit G30,tv stand, clothes, miscellane-ous household; Garry Reese,47 Joan St., Durant, OK74701, Unit H15, sheetrock,cable, clothes, miscellaneoushousehold; Lori Lickly, 69Blackjack Village, Durant, OK74701, Unit H17, propanetank, tote-n-store, bicycle, mis-cellaneous household; JohnEdwards, 44 Oak, Durant, OK74701, Unit H42, table, stereo,furniture, boxes miscellaneoushousehold; O. C. Dunn, 815Lynwood, Durant, OK 74701,H51, walker, weight bench,strollers, miscellaneous house-hold; Ray Wiyninger, 4802Brookhaven, Durant, OK74701, Unit H56, golf equip-ment, bike, chairs, containers,miscellaneous household;Blake Howard, 1410 PlatterRd., Calera, OK 74730, UnitI3, tv stand, table, chair, tv,miscellaneous household;James Collins, PO Box 546,Durant, OK 74702, Unit I11,sofa, tire, clothes, tv stand,miscellaneous, household;Stephanie Wade, 203 Chero-kee, Broken Bow, OK 74728,Unit I38, tire, recliner, bed,miscellaneous household;Richard Fleming, 2 Robby Rd.,Shawnee, OK 74804, UnitI40, furniture, grill, toys, deco-rations, miscellaneous house-hold; Sheila Morford, 701 OllieSt., Calera, OK 74730, UnitI41, shelves, sewing machine,furni ture, miscel laneoushousehold; Amber Hansen, 10Blackjack Rd., Durant, OK74701, Unit I62, sofa; MacyBerka, 752 N. Wade Rd., Ben-nington, OK 74723, Unit J22,headboard, boxes miscellane-ous household; Bryce Camp-bell, 1654 Church Rd., Durant,OK 74701, Unit J26, fishingequipment, totes, stroller, mis-cellaneous household. Con-t a c t T i m B r i s c o e ,580-924-6552 or WestsideStorage, 2024 West Main, Du-rant, OK.
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2 & 9, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY STATE OF
OKLAHOMA
NO. PB-2012-2
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OFVIRGIL CURRIN one and thesameperson as VIRGIL D. CURRINA/K/AVIRGIL DOCKERY CURRIN,DECEASED.ANDIN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OF ELSI REEVE HEN-NERS CURRIN,DECEASED.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMATO THE CREDITORS OFVIRGIL CURRIN one and thesame person as VIRGIL D.CURRIN, A/K/A VIRGILDOCKERY CURRIN, de-ceased.
All person having claimsagainst VIRGIL CURRIN oneand the same person as VIR-GIL D. CURRIN A/K/A VIRGILDOCKERY CURRIN, de-ceased, are required to pre-sent the same, with the neces-sary vouchers, to the under-signed Personal Representa-tive at 122 North Third Streetin the City of Durant, County ofBryan, State of Oklahoma, onor before date of April 13,2012 or the same will be for-ever barred.
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMATO THE CREDITORS OF EL-SIE REEVE HENNERS CUR-RIN, deceased.
All persons having claimsagainst ELSIE REEVE HEN-NERS CURRIN, deceased,are required to present thesame, with the necessaryvouchers, to the undersignedPersonal Representative at122 North Third Street in theCity of Durant, County ofBryan, State of Oklahoma, onor before date of April 13,2012 or the same will be for-ever barred.
Dated this 22 day of Feb.,2012.
/s/Claudia Currin WebsterCLAUDIA CURRIN WEBSTER
PERSONAL REPRESENTA-TIVE
TOM CRISWELL III, OBA#2024CRISWELL & CRISWELL,INC.P.O. Box 541122 North Third St.Durant, Ok 74701Tele. No. (580) 924-2119Attorney for Estates
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: SPACING
Cause CD No. 201106603
LEGAL ALL OF SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, more particularly theparties set out on the Exhibit"A" attached to the applicationon file in this cause, and, if anyof the named individuals bedeceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder, as follows: (i) amendingOrder No. 205224 to delete allof Section 1, Township 7South, Range 7 East of the IM,Bryan County, Oklahoma, fromthe purview of the Big ForkChert common source of sup-ply and to vacate the -acredrilling and spacing units previ-ously formed by such order forsuch common source of sup-ply in such lands; (ii) amendingOrder No. 205224 so as to re-form the -acre drilling andspacing units previouslyformed for the Simpson com-mon source of supply in all ofSection 1, Township 7 South,Range 7 East of the IM, BryanCounty, Oklahoma, into aproper drilling and spacing unitin such section, which unitshould be reformed into a-acre drilling and spacing unitwith the permitted well for theunit to be located not less than1320 feet from the unit bound-ary; (iii) amending Order No.171383 of the Commission soas to enlarge and extend theb o u n d a r i e s o f t h eMorrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Huntonand Viola separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (iv)amending Order No. 589773of the Commission so as toenlarge and extend theboundaries of the UnderthrustSpringer, Underthrust Syca-more, Underthrust Woodford,Underthrust Sylvan, Under-thrust Viola, Underthrust Bro-mide, Underthrust McLish, Un-derthrust Oil Creek, Under-thrust Joins and UnderthrustArbuckle separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (v) es-tablishing the initial boundariesof the Deese, Upper DornickHills, Arbuckle, Sylvan andFernvale separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such formation under-lying such section with the per-mitted well for the units to belocated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; and(vi) granting such other andfurther relief as may be properbased upon the evidence pre-sented at the hearing herein.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that the orderto be entered in this matter bemade effective as of the dateof the execution thereof or asof a date prior thereto.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the ConservationDocket at the CorporationCommission, First Floor, JimThorpe Building, 2101 NorthLincoln Boulevard, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m.,on the 26 th day of March2012, and that this notice willbe published as required bylaw and the rules of the Com-mission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerDONE AND PERFORMEDthis 29 th day of February,2012BY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:
PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion Secretary
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: SPACING
Cause CD No. 201106603
LEGAL ALL OF SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, more particularly theparties set out on the Exhibit"A" attached to the applicationon file in this cause, and, if anyof the named individuals bedeceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder, as follows: (i) amendingOrder No. 205224 to delete allof Section 1, Township 7South, Range 7 East of the IM,Bryan County, Oklahoma, fromthe purview of the Big ForkChert common source of sup-ply and to vacate the -acredrilling and spacing units previ-ously formed by such order forsuch common source of sup-ply in such lands; (ii) amendingOrder No. 205224 so as to re-form the -acre drilling andspacing units previouslyformed for the Simpson com-mon source of supply in all ofSection 1, Township 7 South,Range 7 East of the IM, BryanCounty, Oklahoma, into aproper drilling and spacing unitin such section, which unitshould be reformed into a-acre drilling and spacing unitwith the permitted well for theunit to be located not less than1320 feet from the unit bound-ary; (iii) amending Order No.171383 of the Commission soas to enlarge and extend theb o u n d a r i e s o f t h eMorrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Huntonand Viola separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (iv)amending Order No. 589773of the Commission so as toenlarge and extend theboundaries of the UnderthrustSpringer, Underthrust Syca-more, Underthrust Woodford,Underthrust Sylvan, Under-thrust Viola, Underthrust Bro-mide, Underthrust McLish, Un-derthrust Oil Creek, Under-thrust Joins and UnderthrustArbuckle separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (v) es-tablishing the initial boundariesof the Deese, Upper DornickHills, Arbuckle, Sylvan andFernvale separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such formation under-lying such section with the per-mitted well for the units to belocated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; and(vi) granting such other andfurther relief as may be properbased upon the evidence pre-sented at the hearing herein.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that the orderto be entered in this matter bemade effective as of the dateof the execution thereof or asof a date prior thereto.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the ConservationDocket at the CorporationCommission, First Floor, JimThorpe Building, 2101 NorthLincoln Boulevard, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m.,on the 26 th day of March2012, and that this notice willbe published as required bylaw and the rules of the Com-mission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerDONE AND PERFORMEDthis 29 th day of February,2012BY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:
PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion Secretary
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: SPACING
Cause CD No. 201106603
LEGAL ALL OF SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, more particularly theparties set out on the Exhibit"A" attached to the applicationon file in this cause, and, if anyof the named individuals bedeceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder, as follows: (i) amendingOrder No. 205224 to delete allof Section 1, Township 7South, Range 7 East of the IM,Bryan County, Oklahoma, fromthe purview of the Big ForkChert common source of sup-ply and to vacate the -acredrilling and spacing units previ-ously formed by such order forsuch common source of sup-ply in such lands; (ii) amendingOrder No. 205224 so as to re-form the -acre drilling andspacing units previouslyformed for the Simpson com-mon source of supply in all ofSection 1, Township 7 South,Range 7 East of the IM, BryanCounty, Oklahoma, into aproper drilling and spacing unitin such section, which unitshould be reformed into a-acre drilling and spacing unitwith the permitted well for theunit to be located not less than1320 feet from the unit bound-ary; (iii) amending Order No.171383 of the Commission soas to enlarge and extend theb o u n d a r i e s o f t h eMorrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Huntonand Viola separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (iv)amending Order No. 589773of the Commission so as toenlarge and extend theboundaries of the UnderthrustSpringer, Underthrust Syca-more, Underthrust Woodford,Underthrust Sylvan, Under-thrust Viola, Underthrust Bro-mide, Underthrust McLish, Un-derthrust Oil Creek, Under-thrust Joins and UnderthrustArbuckle separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such separate commonsources of supply underlyingsuch section, with the permit-ted well for the units to be lo-cated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; (v) es-tablishing the initial boundariesof the Deese, Upper DornickHills, Arbuckle, Sylvan andFernvale separate commonsources of supply so as tocover and include Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, which section Ap-plicants request be formed asa 640-acre drilling and spacingunit for such formation under-lying such section with the per-mitted well for the units to belocated not less than 1320 feetfrom the unit boundary; and(vi) granting such other andfurther relief as may be properbased upon the evidence pre-sented at the hearing herein.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that the orderto be entered in this matter bemade effective as of the dateof the execution thereof or asof a date prior thereto.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the ConservationDocket at the CorporationCommission, First Floor, JimThorpe Building, 2101 NorthLincoln Boulevard, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m.,on the 26 th day of March2012, and that this notice willbe published as required bylaw and the rules of the Com-mission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerDONE AND PERFORMEDthis 29 th day of February,2012BY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:
PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion Secretary
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ON FEB-RUARY 24 & MARCH 2, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY STATE OF
OKLAHOMA
NO. PB-2011-40
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATE OFJOY BRISCOE one and thesameperson as JOY HOUSTON,sameperson as JOY L. HOUSTON,DECEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FI-NAL ACCOUNT AND PETI-TION FOR FINAL SETTLE-
MENT, DETERMINATION OFHEIRS OF SAID DECEASED,
FOR DISTRIBUTION OFSAID ESTATE AND DIS-CHARGE OF SAID PER-
SONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Notice is hereby given thatCHARLES HOUSTON, Per-sonal Representative of theEstate of JOY BRISCOEA/K/A JOY HOUSTON A/K/AJOY L. HOUSTON, deceased,having filed, in this Court, hisFinal Account of the Estate ofsaid deceased and his Petitionfor the Determination of Heirsof said Estate and for the FinalDischarge of Personal Repre-sentative, the hearing of thesame has been fixed by theJudge of said Court for Mon-day, the 26th day of March,2012, at the hour of 9:30o'clock A.M. in the DistrictCourt Room in the DistrictCourt House in the City of Du-rant, County of Bryan, State ofOklahoma, when and where allpersons interested in said Es-tate are notified to then andthere show cause, if any theyhave, why said account of saidEstate should not be settledand allowed and the heirs ofsaid deceased determined andthe Estate distributed to theproper parties entitled theretoand the said Personal Repre-sentative of said Estate dis-charged.
Dated this 21st day of Febru-ary, 2012.
/s/Mark CampbellDISTRICT JUDGE
TOM CRISWELL III, OBA#2024CRISWELL & CRISWELL,INC.P.O. BOX 541Durant, OK 74702-0541Attorney for the Estate
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 9 & 16.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY, STATE OFOKLAHOMA JUVENILE ANDFAMILY RELATIONS DIVI-
SION
JD-2011-29
In the Matter of:T.H. D.O.B. 12/29/1998J.H. D.O.B. 12/03/1999And A.S. D.O.B. 07/09/2001Alleged Deprived ChildrenUnder the Ages of 18 years
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:Candi Lynn Hadley
You are notified that a Petitionand Amended Petition hasbeen filed in the matter of theabove named child(ren) whichalleges that said child(ren) aredeprived as defined in Title 10O.S. 1101 et seq. You arehereby notified to be beforethe Juvenile and Family Rela-tions Division of the DistrictCourt of Bryan County in theCourtroom of said Court in theBryan County Courthouse, Du-rant, Oklahoma, on 22nd DAYOF MAY 2012 at 9:30 o'clocka.m. The Petition is on file inthe Office of the Court Clerk ofBryan County, and you are re-ferred to the Petition wherein itis alleged that the abovenamed minor child(ren) is de-prived as more fully describedin said Petition.
FAILURE TO RESPOND TOTHIS SUMMONS OR TO AP-PEAR AT THIS HEARINGCONSTITUTES CONSENTTO THE ADJUDICATION OFTHE CHILD(REN) AS A DE-PRIVED CHILD(REN) ANDMAY ULTIMATELY RESULTIN LOSS OF CUSTODY OFTHIS CHILD(REN) OR THETERMINATION OF PAREN-TAL RIGHTS TO THISCHILD(REN).
You are further notified thatupon your failure to appearthat proceedings can and willbe had to adjudicate the abovenamed child(ren) as deprived.You are informed that you areentitled to have an attorneypresent at this hearing, andthat one might be appointedfor you if you cannot employan attorney by reason of indi-gence. You are notified tocontact the Court Clerk of theDistrict Court if you desire tobe represented by an attorney.
I have hereunto set my handthis 28th day of Feb., 2012.
/s/Rocky PowersJUDGE OF THE DISTRICT
COURT
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSIONOF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING
Cause CD No. 201106604
LEGAL SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, including the following:Audra Fay Akins; Pal Bullard;Teran Bullard; Chicoil; WalterNeal Cothran; David W. PottsLand & Exploration Co.; JuliaW. Derryberry; Julia W. Derry-berry; The City of Durant; El-ton S. Grant and Mary F.Grant; Coryn Culhane Haro;Royce J. Hendricks and LauraHendricks; Rebecca Hill andRobert Hill; Mid-Continent En-ergy Corporation; Jo WhitePhillips, a/k/a Jo White Mills;Robert D. Norman and PeggyNorman; Robert D. Normanand Peggy Norman; TammyReynolds; Gladys W. Tarter;Gladys W. Tarter; Adolph Gep-pert Tomme and MargaretRose Tomme; H. T. White;Charlotte Williams; Paul L. Wil-liams; Paul L. Williams; Dr.John Williams, a/k/a JonathanSimson Williams; Dr. RobertLee Williams; and, if any of thenamed individuals be de-ceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder pooling the interests ofthe oil and gas owners, andadjudicating the rights and eq-uities with respect thereto, inproposed 640-acre drilling andspacing units in Cause CD No.201106603, for the Deese, Up-p e r D o r n i c k H i l l s ,Morrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Hunton,viola, Simpson, Arbuckle, Syl-van, Underthrust Springer, Un-derthrust Sycamore, Under-thrust Woodford, UnderthrustSylvan, Underthrust Viola, Un-derthrust Bromide, UnderthrustMcLish, Underthrust Oil Creek,Underthrust Joins, UnderthrustArbuckle and Fernvale sepa-rate common sources of sup-ply, underlying Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, with respect to thedevelopment of such separatecommon sources of supply insuch unit. The interests of theoil and gas owners involvedherein and the rights and equi-ties in respect thereto aresought here to be pooled andadjudicated pursuant to Tit. 52,Okla. Stat., Section 87.1 withinand on the basis of the drillingand spacing unit coveredhereby, and not limited to asingle wellbore. The Appli-cants in this cause states thatApplicants have proposed thedevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein under a plan ofdevelopment and have pro-posed to commence such planof development of such unit byan initial well in the lands cov-ered hereby, and that Appli-cants have been unable toreach an agreement with theowners of drilling rights namedas respondents herein with re-spect to such proposed plan ofdevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unitcovered hereby.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that one orboth of the Applicants, includ-ing Chesapeake Exploration,L.L.C. acting by and throughits agent, Chesapeake Operat-ing, Inc., or some other partyrecommended by Applicantsbe designated as operator un-der the order to be entered inthis cause of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein, including theproposed initial well and anysubsequent wells under Appli-cants' proposed plan of devel-opment of such unit. Appli-cants may request up to oneyear from the date of the orderto enter in this cause, withinwhich to commence the initialwell.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the Merits Docket atthe Corporation Commission,First Floor, Jim Thorpe Build-ing, Oklahoma City, Okla-homa, at 8:30 a.m., on the26 th day of March 2012, andthat this notice will be pub-lished as required by law andthe rules of the Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
DONE AND PERFORMEDTHIS 29th day of February2012.CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerBY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion Secretary
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSIONOF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING
Cause CD No. 201106604
LEGAL SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, including the following:Audra Fay Akins; Pal Bullard;Teran Bullard; Chicoil; WalterNeal Cothran; David W. PottsLand & Exploration Co.; JuliaW. Derryberry; Julia W. Derry-berry; The City of Durant; El-ton S. Grant and Mary F.Grant; Coryn Culhane Haro;Royce J. Hendricks and LauraHendricks; Rebecca Hill andRobert Hill; Mid-Continent En-ergy Corporation; Jo WhitePhillips, a/k/a Jo White Mills;Robert D. Norman and PeggyNorman; Robert D. Normanand Peggy Norman; TammyReynolds; Gladys W. Tarter;Gladys W. Tarter; Adolph Gep-pert Tomme and MargaretRose Tomme; H. T. White;Charlotte Williams; Paul L. Wil-liams; Paul L. Williams; Dr.John Williams, a/k/a JonathanSimson Williams; Dr. RobertLee Williams; and, if any of thenamed individuals be de-ceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder pooling the interests ofthe oil and gas owners, andadjudicating the rights and eq-uities with respect thereto, inproposed 640-acre drilling andspacing units in Cause CD No.201106603, for the Deese, Up-p e r D o r n i c k H i l l s ,Morrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Hunton,viola, Simpson, Arbuckle, Syl-van, Underthrust Springer, Un-derthrust Sycamore, Under-thrust Woodford, UnderthrustSylvan, Underthrust Viola, Un-derthrust Bromide, UnderthrustMcLish, Underthrust Oil Creek,Underthrust Joins, UnderthrustArbuckle and Fernvale sepa-rate common sources of sup-ply, underlying Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, with respect to thedevelopment of such separatecommon sources of supply insuch unit. The interests of theoil and gas owners involvedherein and the rights and equi-ties in respect thereto aresought here to be pooled andadjudicated pursuant to Tit. 52,Okla. Stat., Section 87.1 withinand on the basis of the drillingand spacing unit coveredhereby, and not limited to asingle wellbore. The Appli-cants in this cause states thatApplicants have proposed thedevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein under a plan ofdevelopment and have pro-posed to commence such planof development of such unit byan initial well in the lands cov-ered hereby, and that Appli-cants have been unable toreach an agreement with theowners of drilling rights namedas respondents herein with re-spect to such proposed plan ofdevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unitcovered hereby.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that one orboth of the Applicants, includ-ing Chesapeake Exploration,L.L.C. acting by and throughits agent, Chesapeake Operat-ing, Inc., or some other partyrecommended by Applicantsbe designated as operator un-der the order to be entered inthis cause of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein, including theproposed initial well and anysubsequent wells under Appli-cants' proposed plan of devel-opment of such unit. Appli-cants may request up to oneyear from the date of the orderto enter in this cause, withinwhich to commence the initialwell.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the Merits Docket atthe Corporation Commission,First Floor, Jim Thorpe Build-ing, Oklahoma City, Okla-homa, at 8:30 a.m., on the26 th day of March 2012, andthat this notice will be pub-lished as required by law andthe rules of the Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
DONE AND PERFORMEDTHIS 29th day of February2012.CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerBY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion Secretary
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 201210 THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT
CounselorThe Oklahoma Departmentof Rehabilitation Services
will be interviewing for a
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselorposition in the Durant office. This position will be
full time for a degreed individual who will bewilling to travel in Bryan and surrounding
counties as part of the job duties. Applicants whohave never been in classified service with theState of Oklahoma currently in unclassifiedservice, or in probationary status may apply
through the online application system OKCareersfor Announcement # 120223-K21B-06 by visitingwww.opm.ok.gov and follow the OKCareers link
(yellow/green/blue circle on the right of the page).Applications must be received before noon on
3/8/2012. The position is for VocationalRehabilitation Specialists, Level III, which may be
under filled at a lower level. All applicants mustbe eligible to sit for licensure (LPC or CRC).
Those with reinstatement rights or currently astate employee must provide an OPM-4B.Questions may be directed to the Human
Resources Department at 1-405-951-3527Calvin Small or 1-405-951-3454 Randal Zotigh.
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fast-paced environment. Pick up an application at
2430 West Main or email resume to
If you are a highly motivated and outgoingperson who enjoys working with people,youʼre the person we are looking for. Weare seeking full or part time RegisteredDental Hygienists for our Durant Oklahomaoffice. We offer excellent salary and bene-fits. Please fax resume to (580) 920-2082.
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ADMIN SUPERVISOR/ASSISTANT NEEDED; Able towork in a fast-paced environmentand multitask with a wide range of
functions in administration.Applicants are to reply to
Pioneer Equipment Rental & Sales is looking foran Outside Sales Representative for our Durant,OK branch. This individual will be responsible forgrowing market share by raising the number of newaccounts while maintaining and strengthening thecurrent customer base. One year previous salesexperience and knowledge of constructionequipment are preferred. If you are this individualplease apply at 2800 N. 1st St, Durant, OK or emailto [email protected]
291515
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
BEFORE THE CORPORA-TION COMMISSIONOF THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA
APPLICANTS: CHESA-PEAKE OPERATING, INC.AND CHESAPEAKE EXPLO-RATION, L.L.C.
RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING
Cause CD No. 201106604
LEGAL SECTION 1DESCRIPTION: TOWNSHIP 7SOUTHRANGE 7 EAST OF THE IMBRYAN COUNTY, OKLA-HOMA
AMENDED NOTICE OFHEARING
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:All persons, owners, produc-ers, operators, purchasers andtakers of oil and gas, and allother interested persons, par-ticularly in Bryan County, Okla-homa, including the following:Audra Fay Akins; Pal Bullard;Teran Bullard; Chicoil; WalterNeal Cothran; David W. PottsLand & Exploration Co.; JuliaW. Derryberry; Julia W. Derry-berry; The City of Durant; El-ton S. Grant and Mary F.Grant; Coryn Culhane Haro;Royce J. Hendricks and LauraHendricks; Rebecca Hill andRobert Hill; Mid-Continent En-ergy Corporation; Jo WhitePhillips, a/k/a Jo White Mills;Robert D. Norman and PeggyNorman; Robert D. Normanand Peggy Norman; TammyReynolds; Gladys W. Tarter;Gladys W. Tarter; Adolph Gep-pert Tomme and MargaretRose Tomme; H. T. White;Charlotte Williams; Paul L. Wil-liams; Paul L. Williams; Dr.John Williams, a/k/a JonathanSimson Williams; Dr. RobertLee Williams; and, if any of thenamed individuals be de-ceased, then the unknownheirs, executors, administra-tors, devisees, trustees andassigns, both immediate andremote, of such deceased indi-vidual; if any of the named en-tities is a dissolved partner-ship, corporation or other as-sociation, then the unknownsuccessors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and re-mote, of such dissolved entity;if any of the named partiesdesignated as a trustee is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the un-known successor or succes-sors to such trustee; if any ofthe named parties designatedas an attorney-in-fact is notpresently acting in such capac-ity as attorney-in-fact, then theunknown successor or succes-sors to such attorney-in-fact;and if any of the named enti-ties are corporations which donot continue to have legal ex-istence, the unknown trusteesor assigns of such parties.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Applicants, ChesapeakeOperating, Inc. and Chesa-peake Exploration, L.L.C.,have filed an application in thiscause requesting the Corpora-tion Commission to enter anorder pooling the interests ofthe oil and gas owners, andadjudicating the rights and eq-uities with respect thereto, inproposed 640-acre drilling andspacing units in Cause CD No.201106603, for the Deese, Up-p e r D o r n i c k H i l l s ,Morrow-Springer, Caney,Sycamore, Woodford, Hunton,viola, Simpson, Arbuckle, Syl-van, Underthrust Springer, Un-derthrust Sycamore, Under-thrust Woodford, UnderthrustSylvan, Underthrust Viola, Un-derthrust Bromide, UnderthrustMcLish, Underthrust Oil Creek,Underthrust Joins, UnderthrustArbuckle and Fernvale sepa-rate common sources of sup-ply, underlying Section 1,Township 7 South, Range 7East of the IM, Bryan County,Oklahoma, with respect to thedevelopment of such separatecommon sources of supply insuch unit. The interests of theoil and gas owners involvedherein and the rights and equi-ties in respect thereto aresought here to be pooled andadjudicated pursuant to Tit. 52,Okla. Stat., Section 87.1 withinand on the basis of the drillingand spacing unit coveredhereby, and not limited to asingle wellbore. The Appli-cants in this cause states thatApplicants have proposed thedevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein under a plan ofdevelopment and have pro-posed to commence such planof development of such unit byan initial well in the lands cov-ered hereby, and that Appli-cants have been unable toreach an agreement with theowners of drilling rights namedas respondents herein with re-spect to such proposed plan ofdevelopment of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unitcovered hereby.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the application in thiscause requests that one orboth of the Applicants, includ-ing Chesapeake Exploration,L.L.C. acting by and throughits agent, Chesapeake Operat-ing, Inc., or some other partyrecommended by Applicantsbe designated as operator un-der the order to be entered inthis cause of the separatecommon sources of supply inthe drilling and spacing unit in-volved herein, including theproposed initial well and anysubsequent wells under Appli-cants' proposed plan of devel-opment of such unit. Appli-cants may request up to oneyear from the date of the orderto enter in this cause, withinwhich to commence the initialwell.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be referredto an Administrative LawJudge for hearing, taking ofevidence and reporting to theCorporation Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat this cause will be heardbefore an Administrative LawJudge on the Merits Docket atthe Corporation Commission,First Floor, Jim Thorpe Build-ing, Oklahoma City, Okla-homa, at 8:30 a.m., on the26 th day of March 2012, andthat this notice will be pub-lished as required by law andthe rules of the Commission.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat the Applicants and inter-ested parties may present tes-timony by telephone. The costof telephonic communicationshall be paid by the person orpersons requesting its use. Aninterested party who wishes toparticipate by telephone shallcontact the Applicants or Ap-plicants' attorney, prior to thehearing date, and provide hisor her name and phone num-ber.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVENthat all interested persons mayappear and be heard. For in-formation concerning this ac-tion contact Julie Woodard,landman, (405) 935-4534, orEmily P. Smith, attorney, OBANo. 20805, (405) 935-8203,Chesapeake Operating, Inc.,P.O. Box 18496, OklahomaCity, Oklahoma 73154-0496.Please refer to Cause CDNumber.
DONE AND PERFORMEDTHIS 29th day of February2012.CORPORATION COMMIS-SION OF OKLAHOMA
DANA L. MURPHY, Chair
BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chair-man
PATRICE DOUGLAS, Com-missionerBY ORDER OF THE COM-MISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, Commis-sion SecretaryPUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFMARSHALL COUNTY STATE
OF OKLAHOMA
Case No.: FA-72-02
In The Matter Of The Adop-tionOf: K.R.,a minor child date of birth11-28-2006
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMATO: Lucas Ruiz
TAKE NOTICE that there hasbeen prayed for an applicationto have the female minor childK.R. date of birth 11-28-2006to be eligible to be adoptedwith out consent of her naturalfather namely Lucas Ruiz.
You are hereby notified thatyou must answer the Applica-tion of the Petitioners on file inthis cause on or before the 2day of April, 2012 at 10:30a.m. or the allegations of saidApplication will be taken astrue and the above mentionedminor child will be declared eli-gible to be adopted withoutyour consent and your paren-tal rights will be terminated.
WITNESS my hand and officialseal this 16 day of February,2012.
/s/Gregory JohnsonJUDGE OF THE DISTRICT
COURT
Jeremy S. Elliott601 North 1st AveDurant, OK 7470(580) 924-7878PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 9 & 16.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY, STATE OFOKLAHOMA JUVENILE ANDFAMILY RELATIONS DIVI-
SION
JD-2011-30
In the Matter of:E.W.An Alleged Deprived ChildUnder the Age of 18 yearsA male child born on10/20/2004
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:Andrew Whitlow
You are notified that a Petitionand Amended Petition hasbeen filed in the matter of theabove named child(ren) whichalleges that said child(ren) aredeprived as defined in Title 10O.S. 1101 et seq. You arehereby notified to be beforethe Juvenile and Family Rela-tions Division of the DistrictCourt of Bryan County in theCourtroom of said Court in theBryan County Courthouse, Du-rant, Oklahoma, on 22nd DAYOF MAY 2012 at 9:30 o'clocka.m. The Petition is on file inthe Office of the Court Clerk ofBryan County, and you are re-ferred to the Petition wherein itis alleged that the abovenamed minor child(ren) is de-prived as more fully describedin said Petition.
FAILURE TO RESPOND TOTHIS SUMMONS OR TO AP-PEAR AT THIS HEARINGCONSTITUTES CONSENTTO THE ADJUDICATION OFTHE CHILD(REN) AS A DE-PRIVED CHILD(REN) ANDMAY ULTIMATELY RESULTIN LOSS OF CUSTODY OFTHIS CHILD(REN) OR THETERMINATION OF PAREN-TAL RIGHTS TO THISCHILD(REN).
You are further notified thatupon your failure to appearthat proceedings can and willbe had to adjudicate the abovenamed child(ren) as deprived.You are informed that you areentitled to have an attorneypresent at this hearing, andthat one might be appointedfor you if you cannot employan attorney by reason of indi-gence. You are notified tocontact the Court Clerk of theDistrict Court if you desire tobe represented by an attorney.
I have hereunto set my handthis 28th day of Feb., 2012.
/s/Rocky PowersJUDGE OF THE DISTRICT
COURT
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ONMARCH 2, 9 & 16.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY, STATE OFOKLAHOMA JUVENILE ANDFAMILY RELATIONS DIVI-
SION
JD-2011-30
In the Matter of:E.W.An Alleged Deprived ChildUnder the Age of 18 yearsA male child born on10/20/2004
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO:Andrew Whitlow
You are notified that a Petitionand Amended Petition hasbeen filed in the matter of theabove named child(ren) whichalleges that said child(ren) aredeprived as defined in Title 10O.S. 1101 et seq. You arehereby notified to be beforethe Juvenile and Family Rela-tions Division of the DistrictCourt of Bryan County in theCourtroom of said Court in theBryan County Courthouse, Du-rant, Oklahoma, on 22nd DAYOF MAY 2012 at 9:30 o'clocka.m. The Petition is on file inthe Office of the Court Clerk ofBryan County, and you are re-ferred to the Petition wherein itis alleged that the abovenamed minor child(ren) is de-prived as more fully describedin said Petition.
FAILURE TO RESPOND TOTHIS SUMMONS OR TO AP-PEAR AT THIS HEARINGCONSTITUTES CONSENTTO THE ADJUDICATION OFTHE CHILD(REN) AS A DE-PRIVED CHILD(REN) ANDMAY ULTIMATELY RESULTIN LOSS OF CUSTODY OFTHIS CHILD(REN) OR THETERMINATION OF PAREN-TAL RIGHTS TO THISCHILD(REN).
You are further notified thatupon your failure to appearthat proceedings can and willbe had to adjudicate the abovenamed child(ren) as deprived.You are informed that you areentitled to have an attorneypresent at this hearing, andthat one might be appointedfor you if you cannot employan attorney by reason of indi-gence. You are notified tocontact the Court Clerk of theDistrict Court if you desire tobe represented by an attorney.
I have hereunto set my handthis 28th day of Feb., 2012.
/s/Rocky PowersJUDGE OF THE DISTRICT
COURTPUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ON FEB-RUARY 24 & MARCH 2, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY STATE OF
OKLAHOMA
NO. PB-2011-84
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATEOF LUTHER N. BRAUDRICKa/k/aLUTHER BRAUDRICK a/k/aLUTHERNICHOLAS BRAUDRICK a/k/aLUKE BRAUDRICK, DE-CEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FI-NAL ACCOUNT AND PETI-TION FOR FINAL SETTLE-
MENT, DETERMINATION OFHEIRS OF SAID DECEASED,
FOR DISTRIBUTION OFSAID ESTATE AND DIS-CHARGE OF SAID PER-
SONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Notice is hereby given thatJILL BURNS, Personal Repre-sentative of the Estate of LU-THER BRAUDRICK A/K/A LU-THER NICHOLAS BRAU-DRICK A/K/A LUTHER N.BRAUDRICK A/K/A LUKEBRAUDRICK, deceased, hav-ing filed in this Court, her FinalAccount of the Estate of saiddeceased and her Petition forthe Determination of the Heirsof said Estate and for the FinalDischarge of Personal Repre-sentative, the hearing of thesame has been fixed by theJudge of said Court for Mon-day, the 26th day of March,2012, at the hour of 9:30o'clock A.M. in the DistrictCourt Room in the DistrictCourt House in the City of Du-rant, County of Bryan, State ofOklahoma, when and where allpersons interested in said Es-tate are notified to then andthere show cause, if any theyhave, why said account of saidEstate should not be settledand allowed and the heirs ofsaid deceased determined andthe Estate distributed to theproper parties entitled theretoand the said Personal Repre-sentative of said Estate dis-charged.
Dated this 21st day of FEBRU-ARY, 2012.
/s/Mark R. CampbellDISTRICT JUDGE
TOM CRISWELL III, OBA#2024CRISWELL & CRISWELL,INC.P.O. Box 541Durant, OK 74702-0541Attorney for the Estate
PUBLISHED IN THE DURANTDAILY DEMOCRAT ON FEB-RUARY 24 & MARCH 2, 2012.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OFBRYAN COUNTY STATE OF
OKLAHOMA
NO. PB-2011-84
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-TATEOF LUTHER N. BRAUDRICKa/k/aLUTHER BRAUDRICK a/k/aLUTHERNICHOLAS BRAUDRICK a/k/aLUKE BRAUDRICK, DE-CEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FI-NAL ACCOUNT AND PETI-TION FOR FINAL SETTLE-
MENT, DETERMINATION OFHEIRS OF SAID DECEASED,
FOR DISTRIBUTION OFSAID ESTATE AND DIS-CHARGE OF SAID PER-
SONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Notice is hereby given thatJILL BURNS, Personal Repre-sentative of the Estate of LU-THER BRAUDRICK A/K/A LU-THER NICHOLAS BRAU-DRICK A/K/A LUTHER N.BRAUDRICK A/K/A LUKEBRAUDRICK, deceased, hav-ing filed in this Court, her FinalAccount of the Estate of saiddeceased and her Petition forthe Determination of the Heirsof said Estate and for the FinalDischarge of Personal Repre-sentative, the hearing of thesame has been fixed by theJudge of said Court for Mon-day, the 26th day of March,2012, at the hour of 9:30o'clock A.M. in the DistrictCourt Room in the DistrictCourt House in the City of Du-rant, County of Bryan, State ofOklahoma, when and where allpersons interested in said Es-tate are notified to then andthere show cause, if any theyhave, why said account of saidEstate should not be settledand allowed and the heirs ofsaid deceased determined andthe Estate distributed to theproper parties entitled theretoand the said Personal Repre-sentative of said Estate dis-charged.
Dated this 21st day of FEBRU-ARY, 2012.
/s/Mark R. CampbellDISTRICT JUDGE
TOM CRISWELL III, OBA#2024CRISWELL & CRISWELL,INC.P.O. Box 541Durant, OK 74702-0541Attorney for the Estate
Lost & Found
$350 REWARD, black & whiteBoston Terrier, last seen onEvergreen, belongs to little girl.760-0888 or 340-2888
Contractors
All American Construction.Concrete, carports, patio cov-ers, decks, fences, customtextures, drywall, painting,house leveling, foundation re-pair, siding, free estimates.5 8 0 - 3 8 0 - 8 9 5 6 o r580-230-7101
Home Improvements
All-N-One Const. Roofing, sid-ing, windows, seamless gut-ters, remodeling. All yourhome repair needs in oneplace. 25 yrs exp. 380-8868
Professional Services
Brush hogging, gravel spread-ing, moving dirt, Allan Boyd580-775-0659
294637
294286DUMP TRUCK,
BACK HOE,TOP SOIL,
SAND & GRAVEL924-6784920-6108
DOZER WORX
Painting, drywall, 30 yrs. exp.Vernon Hankins, 775-5571
Sewing Machine Repair.Doylene's Qui l t Shop,924-4145, Work Guaranteed.
Financial Services
WE WANT TO MAKE YOU A LOAN!
$135-$1320NO CHECKING ACCOUNT
NEEDED USUALLY 30 MINUTE SERVICE!
NOBLE FINANCE1344 B W. EVERGREEN(580) 924-4321
$140-$1,380
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Livestock
Oklahoma BrangusAssociation
Indian Nation SaleSaturday, March 10, 2012
12pmSouthern Oklahoma
Livestock AuctionAda, OK
Selling 50 RegisteredBrangus Bulls
50 Registered BrangusFemales and 150
Commercial Brangusinfluenced females
Wes Dotson, 580-541-3799Tyler Dean, 405-207-6921
view catalog atwesdotson.com
293996
Pets
2 AKC Registered Tea CupYorkie Puppies male and fe-male free to a new goodhome, They have currentshots and play along with chil-dren and other animals. con-tact ([email protected]) for more informa-tion.
Want To Buy
Want to buy 45 RPM Records,50's, 60's, Rock N Roll, Blues& Soul. 580-677-0630
Auctions
Sat., March 3rd, 1 PM523 N. 14th Durant, OKCorner of 14th & Liveoak.
Watch for signs.1986 International 77Pass Bus, Big Screen
TV, Recliner, L.R. Suite,Chest, Bunk Beds,Quilts, Oil Lamps,
Books, Home Interior,Marbles, Antique
Lamps, Small Tables,Records, Dishes,
Organ, Glassware, Sofa& Loveseat, office
Furn, Plus Lots More.Everyone Welcome,
Not Responsible for Accidents.Auctioneer:
Bradley Houston
AUCTION
580-775-7111
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Auctions
M&P Spring Auction2202 S. 9th St., Durant, OK
March 3, 201210:00 A.M.
New flip flops, new door knobs newcabinet pulls, hardware, light fixtures,dining tables, plumbing fixtures, bat-tery operated cars, battery jumpers,knock down furniture, TVʼs, tents,chest of drawers, heater, small refrig-erator, nuts & bolts, misc. tools, wheelbarrow handles, knives(all kinds),Cowboy pictures, snacks, rubberboots, boat, motor,& trailer, trailerhouse axles & tires, 2” irrigation pump(like new), 4” straps, 24.5 aluminumwheels, battery charger, Old RaggedyAnn & Andy, Wizard of Oz, militaryboots, semi-drop tarps (4ʼ, 6ʼ, 8ʼ)
All sales supercedes anyadvertisement day of sale.Auctioneer: Vernon Smith
580-920-0117 • 580-380-9565Concession available
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Fuel / Oil / Coal / Wood / Gas
Firewood for sale, Oak 90%split, 580-760-6048
Miscellaneous
TAX SALE!!at
American PortableBuildingsBring this ad with you
to receive
10% OFFany building, any sizegood on cash sale and
lease to own!
2510 W. Main St.Durant
(580) 924-7433
Hurry! Sale Ends Soon!
289280
NOCREDITCHECKS
We pay cash for junk, Cars,Trucks & Farm equip. Big orSmall we buy i t al l .580-847-2244.
Yard Sale
2 Family Sale: 1104 Brook-line, Durant; Fri & Sat2-family garage sale: SaturdayMar. 3, baby clothes & babyitems, home for sale, gun cabi-net, yamaha 250 4-wheeler.609 W Jones, Calera OK580-980-98015 family yard sale: a little bit ofeverything, everything realcheap. Sat 9-2. 423 W Ten-nesse.5634 Stonecreek Dr., Fri., 3-6p.m.; Sat., 9-? DVD player, lit-tle girl's & adult clothes, misc.Yard Sale Fri & Sat 1316 N5th.
Yard Sale
The Junktion Flea Market will open
8 am every Saturdayand Sunday starting
March 3. Located 10 miles west of
Durant at 4477 US 70.Offering 37 booths of
shopping. Servingbreakfast and lunch.580-931-7559
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Sale, Sat. 9-5 & Sun. 12-5,100's of CD's, DVD's, Collecta-bles, Precious Moments,books, Nascar items, clothes,kitchen items, garage work ta-ble & more. New items added& Reduced Prices. Set up atDurant Indoor Flea Market,3119 Westside Dr.
700 AGRICULTURE
900 MERCHANDISE
600 ANIMALS100 LEGALS 100 LEGALS
200 ANNOUNCEMENTS
300 SERVICES
100 LEGALS
293805292011
Yard Sale
Abundant Life
TempleʼsAnnual Mexico
MissionsFund Raiser
Breakfast &Garage Sale
1307 N. Washington
Sat., March 3rd
7AM until 2PM293772
Church Yard Sale! Saturday,March 3, 7:00 am to Noon.Furniture, toys, clothes,kitchen items, dishes, linens,books, holiday decorations,and more. First PresbyterianChurch 501 N. 15th Ave, Du-rant.Fri. 8am- 6pm, Sat. 8am - 2pm 319 S. 13th, baby / toddleritems, boys clothes, teenclothes & much more.Huge 2 Family Garage Sale:tools & Knickknacks, 7 milesSouth of Durant, Hwy 78. Fri.& Sat.Huge Sale Sat. 116 SunnyMeadow Dr. name brand cloth-ing, books, furniture, home de-cor & lots more. Don't miss.Moving Sale: Sat 3rd & Sun4th 8am-?. 129 HighlandDrive, Durant watch for signs.Lot of furniture & antique furni-ture, TVs, PlayStation 2, 50 calblack powder rifle, smoker,wooden swing, mens &womens clothes sz: med-2x,srucbs men & women, shoeskids & women, kids clothing,too many items to list.Multi-family Parking lot sale8am Saturday only. 1522 WEvergreen.Multi-family yard sale: WillowSprings Road watch for signs.Sat 8-3; housewares, decor,clothes, power washer, gasgrill, and lots more.Rummage Sale Sat. 3/3 start-ing at 8. St. Johns EpiscopalChurch 515 W. Beech
Sat 3/3. 1124 W. Beech. 7-11.M e n , w o m e n , k i d sclothes/shoes, furniture, dou-ble stroller, elliptical, toys &more
Yard Sale
The first big nice yard sale ofthe year. Friday & Saturday.Nice things, low prices. Reclin-ers, rocking chairs, chest ofdrawers, dinette sets, babybed, toddler bed, strollers,highchairs, bassinet, dishes,cookware, pictures, prettyglassware, hand tools, powertools, etc. Drive a little, save alot. 1/2 mile South on SawmillRd.Yard Sale Fri. - Sun. tools, ra-dial arm saw, generators, lotsof misc. 517 S. 3rd.
Boats / Accessories
Bass Tracker 16' w 35hp Mer-cury Motor, includes fish loca-tor & trolling motor. Fullyequipped, good condition$2500. 580-380-2332.
Autos
2007 Dodge Nitro SUV
4 dr, Auto, Power Windows,Cruise & Tilt, Loaded. 137K
miles
Asking $9,950 OBO
First Texoma National BankSpecial Assets - 580-924-6569
294026
Sports Utility
Jeep Wrangler 1989, SA-HARA, $1999, automatic,68,439 miles 4x4, runs great.918-617-6126
Commercial
Industrial/Warehouse1200 Sq. Ft. w/overheadand entry doors, includes
office and 1/2 bath.3701 W. Arkansas
1 Year Lease775-4107
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Houses For Sale
For Sale Kenefic, OK 3br/2batrailer on 8 lots also 3br/1bahouse on 3 lots. 924-5349
Apartments/Townhouses
For Rent large, 1 bedroom du-plex $400./ mo. $400./ dep.water paid, absolutely no pets& no smoking, CH/A, 2 yr.lease call 924-9640
Apartments/Townhouses
AvalonApartments
is the place to be... with our
Newly Remodeled3 Bedroom Units!
We also have 1-4 Bedroom AvailableApplication Fee Required.
1901 West Mississippi • DurantMon-Fri 9am-5pm
580-924-1030www.avalondurant.com
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TOWNHOMEPROPERTIES*March Special*924-9290
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BriarwoodApartments
One & Two Bdrms.,Unfurnished!
Appliances FurnishedWater paid, CH&A.
924-6025
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Calera Apartments for rent. 1bed., $355; 2 bed. $390. Call580-434-5914, no longer in-come based.
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Large Efficiency Apartment,furnished, bill paid w/free ca-ble. $500/mo. +dep. 931-9433
Lg. 1 bed. furn. clean apt. atLake. $500/mo. Bills pd.580-579-2483
Apartments/Townhouses
Need A PlaceTo Call Home?Le Chateau Apts.NOW RENTING
1 & 2 bedrooms!Convenient to Schools
and Shopping!Come by today!
700 N 3rdBill and Linda Ralston
924-8837HUD APPROVED 27
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Houses For Rent
1 bedroom duplex, $295.580-920-87431024 N. 12th. 2/1, newly re-modeled, new paint & floors,ch&a, new range, refrigerator,dishwasher, W-D hookups.$ 5 7 5 / m o . , $ 4 7 5 / d e p .580-920-56802 bdrm, 1 bath 613 N. 11th,newly refurbished, refrigerator,stove, no pets, $500./ mo.$350./ dep. 760-02992 bed, 1 bath, house, oven fur-nished, large fenced yard,large outside storage unit.Bokchito, $450./ no dep.580-775-42382/1 CH&A, large yard,$400mo. unfurnished or$450mo furnished, new appli-ances. 580-380-86393 bedroom, excellent condi-t ion, newly refurbishedthroughout, CH/A, $600/month, $500/deposit. No Pets.No Smoking. 1301 W. Cedar.(580)775-10903 bedroom, excellent condi-t ion, newly refurbishedthroughout, CH/A, $600/month, $500/deposit. No Pets.No Smoking. 1301 W. Cedar.(580)775-10903/1.5 CH&A, Very Nice$650mo/$400dep. No Pets.580-916-1735 after 6pm.3400 sq. ft. house in town.Lease to own. Down paymentrequired. Pick your own carpet& counter tops. $10,000down/payment negotiable. CallJohn, 920-87814BR, 2 walk in closets, 2 fullbath, large living/dining room,CH/A, no pets, $700mo., $800dep., 251 Spivey Dr. Calera,behind FWKS, 580-465-0106.Fully furnished all inclusivehome 3/2/2. Rent by the week-end, or the month. www.aper-fectplacetostay.com580-434-2494Simple country living 3 or 4 br/1 bath, 2 acres, all appliances,including W/D, propane &wood heat. 20 min. to Durantor Tish. $500. mo. 443-5831Remodeled 2bdrm, CH&A, ap-pliances, W&D connections,NO PETS, $550mo/$450dep.,1318 N 4th. 580-924-3281.
Houses For Rent
FOR RENT2 Bedroom, Country
living in town. Total electric, all
appliances, water,sewer, garbage,
Terminex included.Weekly or monthlyrates. 49th Street
924-2822
294638
For Rent: 3/2 MH in Mead, NoP e t s , N o S m o k i n g ,$450mo/dep. 580-924-4919
• 2/1 apt across from college
remodeled water pd
$450/$350
• 3/1 duplex close to college
WD Conn water pd
$500/$400
• 1/1 duplex remodeled WD
Conn $350/$250
* 2/2 trailer in calera new
carpet WD Conn $450/$350
All have CH/A and
appliances included
580-920-5890 294145
Nice 2 bed., 2 bath MH, Meadarea, No Pets $300/dep.580-920-1450
Rent to own RV 5th wheel. Setup in park. $120 a week. 1 or 2person. (580) 889-2100
Help Wanted- General
Experienced shop handneeded. Plantation TruckSa les , Co lbe r t , OK .580-296-4241.
Full Time Pharmacy Techneeded. Inqu i re a t580-920-2211. Tech LicenseRequired.
Help Wanted- General
RN Weekend SupervisorLPN Part Time
Reviewing CAN &CMA candidates
Housekeeping SupervisorHousekeeping
Please apply in person @1212 Four
Seasons Dr.EOE/AA
Drug Free Workplace
Now Accepting
ApplicationsFor
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Kings Daughters &Sons Nursing Center
is now acceptingapplications for
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT 11
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12 THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT
Felonies filedWilliam Ned Standifer,
28, Durant, fugitive from justice.
Shanie Michelle Shackleford, 42, Durant, methamphetamine posses-sion.
Jerry Wayne Sewell Jr., 45, Garland, Texas, meth-amphetamine possession.
Leslie Marie Brown, 32, Durant, two counts of sec-ond-degree burglary and one count of unauthorized use of a credit card.
Charvelle Helene Hudson, 23, Durant, two counts of second-degree burglary and one count of knowingly concealing sto-len property.
Curtis Glenn Matlock, 30, Caddo, possession of a firearm after felony convic-tion and domestic assault and battery by strangula-tion.
Michael Duane Hammond, 28, Bokchito, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Alberto Carranza Uribe, 42, Durant, fugitive from justice.
Kenneth Mathias Johnson, 41, Dallas, Texas, possession of Lortab.
Katrina Lynn Bell, 50, Calera, two or more bogus checks over felony limit.
Nathan Craig Wilson, 46, Durant, falsely personate another to create liability.
Blake Anthony Fullenwider, 22, Durant, possession of marijuana within 2,000 feet of a school.
Samantha Rae Ragle, 26, Durant, methamphetamine possession and misde-meanor DUI.
Johnny Darrell Watkins, 45, Caddo, assault with a dangerous weapon and DUI.Felonies disposed
Rose Mary Soto, 43, Bokchito, fugitive from jus-tice, dismissed.
Charles Lee Hicks, 37, Durant, marijuana posses-sion, five-year suspended sentence due to comple-tion of drug court.
David Dean Welborn, 61, Durant, methamphet-amine possession, five-year deferred sentence due to completion of drug court.
Jonathan Earl Mintz, 32, Durant, methamphet-amine possession, five-year sentence due to defendant being removed from drug court.
Christopher Brian Choate, 38, Bennington, DUI, no contest, 10-year deferred sentence.
Jarret Michael Beagle, 27, Bokchito, methamphet-amine possession, posses-sion of a precursor with intent to manufacture, methamphetamine manu-facturing and marijuana cultivation, no contest, 15-year sentence with last five years suspended.
Sammy Lynn Key, 31, Durant, trafficking in meth-amphetamine, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole per jury ‘s recommendation.
Bryan Michael Denny, 39, Hugo, falsely personate
another to create liability, no contest, five-year sus-pended sentence.
Steven Lynn Dodson, 38, Van Alstyne, Texas, assault and/or battery with a dangerous weapon, case dismissed on motion of dis-trict attorney.
Michael Glenn Grimes, 32, Dallas, Texas, eight counts of second-degree burglary and one count of knowingly concealing stolen property; burglary charges dismissed; pleaded no contest to knowingly concealing stolen property and given 10-year sentence with all but three years sus-pended.
Steven Lynn Dodson, 38, Van Alstyne, Texas, bail jumping, no contest, one-year sentence.
Aaron Lee West, 28, Cartwright, methamphet-amine possession, no con-test, five-year suspended sentence.Misdemeanor DUIs
Jessica Rochelle Jones, 20, Durant.
Glen Dale Bomsburger, 37, Durant.
Jennifer Michelle Cross, 21, Durant.
Christopher Allen Vaughn, 35, Caddo.
Cindy K. Upchurch, 40, Achille.
Nicholas Seth Craft, 18, Calera.
Richard Wayne Vance, 22, Mead.Misdemeanor bogus checks
Donnie Glen Williams, 38, Pottsboro, Texas.
Amanda Leeann Wells, 35, Durant.
Britanie Nicole Mathis, 23, Sherman, Texas.Marriage licenses
Joseph Wayne Wright, 34, and Joanna Lynn Chandler, 33.
James Hubert Cook II, 36, and Debra Ann Jordan, 39.
Cody John Little, 23, and Kallie Elizabeth Fields, 23.
James Ross Pearson, 72, and Alfreda Clarece Cantrell, 46.
Billy Patrick James, 33, and Mistie Sue Barnes, 34.
Johnny Joe Flanagan, 40, and Jennifer Lynn Farr, 34.
Christopher Dwight Applegate, 23, and Taylor Jean Tucker, 20.Divorces filed
Lisa Elaine Covington vs. Gregory Scott Covington.
Timmy Wayne Garner vs. Celinda Kay Garner.
Tommy Allen Grigg vs. Donna Gail Grigg.
Debra Jeanette Doraty vs. Robert Derrel Doraty.
Staci Lea McCarty vs. Kenneth Ray McCarty.
Yolanda Brown vs. Billy Ivan Brown.
Amanda Jean Bates vs. Brandon Colter Bates.Divorces granted
Marilyn Peebles vs. Harold Dean Peebles.
Cynthia Lynn Dellinger vs. Tommy Joe Dellinger.
Mary Gale Bowler vs. Terry Gene Bowler.Small claims filed
Susan Arnett Rice vs. Cynthia Marie Bates,
money judgment.Loan Plus vs. Mindy
Langford, money judg-ment.
Jerry Kuykendall and Kuykendall Rentals vs. Kris Roberts and Brooke Roberts, eviction.
Virgil L. Buffalo vs. Jeffrey Scott Aguirre, evic-tion.Civils filed
Ronald F. Arnett and Carolyn K. Arnett vs. Amy L. Franklin, eviction.
American Express Centurion vs. Walter Gadberry, indebtedness.
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance vs. Druie Steven Hughes, auto negligence.
Oliphan Financial vs. William Theis, indebted-ness.
GE Capital Retail Bank vs. William Bower, indebt-edness.
Citibank vs. Johnny L. Wallis, indebtedness.
Midland Funding vs. Charles E. Kelley, indebt-edness.
Midland Funding vs. Teresa Gaebelein, indebt-edness.
Midland Funding vs. Tabatha Ford, indebted-ness.
Midland Funding vs. Boyd H. Scoggin, indebt-edness.
Asset Acceptance vs.
Edna M. Clark, indebted-ness.
First Financial Bank vs. Halee Hall, indebtedness.
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance vs. Rafael Gutierez Perez, auto neg-ligence.
State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance vs. Maria Bethy Gutierres, auto negligence.
CACH vs. Dana McDaniel, auto negligence.
Security Credit Services vs. Tracie Susanne Jarvis, indebtedness.
Cavalry Portfolio Services vs. Loucinda Williams, indebtedness.
Cavalry Portfolio Services vs. Rebecca Mae Acuna, indebtedness.
Durant Cycle Inc., lost car title.
Gary Demond Frazier, name change.
First United Bank vs. Mackie Bundrant and David Thompson, replevin.Civils disposed
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. vs. Sundowner Trailers, condemnation, agreed judgment.
Midland Funding vs. Megan Gresham, indebted-ness, judgment for plaintiff.
Faust Corp. vs. Roxean A. Watson, breach agree-ment/contract, judgment for plaintiff.
Midland Funding vs.
Rhonda Lynne Grider, indebtedness, judgment for plaintiff.
Capital One Bank vs. Ina B. Robinson, indebtedness, dismissed.
Midland Funding vs. Randy L. Weger, money judgment, dismissed.
Portfolio Recovery Association vs. Diane Scott, indebtedness, dis-missed.
Velocity Investments vs. Tiffany K. Tobler, indebted-ness, judgment for plaintiff.
GE Capital Retail Bank-Dillard vs. Roy L. Tyner, indebtedness, judgment for plaintiff.
Midland Funding vs. Anna Evans, indebtedness, judgment for plaintiff.
James Hicks vs. Gary Ray Wells and Stephenson Wholesale, auto negli-gence, dismissed.
Michael Howell vs. Telephone and Data Systems Inc., negligence, dismissed.
Capital One Bank vs. Lana S. Bryant, indebted-ness, dismissed.
Kasey Gaither vs. Aaron Van Thompson, auto negli-gence, dismissed.
Joseph Dean and Jacob Dean vs. Dakota Wayne Hammond, auto negli-gence, dismissed.
Wells Fargo Bank vs.
Mike Jensen and Nichole Jensen, foreclosure, judg-ment for plaintiff
Bank of America vs. Joshua S. Velock and Jessica Lynn Troxtell, fore-closure, judgment for plain-tiff.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
Ongoing
Starting March 1st, 2012, the city of Durant Landfill is no longer accept city utility bills for free dumps. They will pick up 2 free loads. The Solid Waste Collection Department will pick up more debris curb-side for the residents of Durant. They will be cover-ing each section more often
than just the regular extra hauling schedule. All loads taken to the landfill will be paid by the customer. Items such as appliances and tires are still an extra charge to be picked up for extra hauling. If you have any questions, please call 580-924-2707.
The Southeastern Branch of the American
Red Cross, 501 N.E. Fourth Ave., is now offering CPR/First Aid/AED Health and Safety classes from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. until noon Fridays. For additional information, call 924-0255.
Seniors who sing, play an instrument, dance, play in small groups, duets, quartets, etc. are invited
to perform from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mondays at the Durant Nutrition Center, 301 N. 16th Ave. Must be age 60 or older. For more information, call 924-4322.
The American Veterans, Post 35, and Southern Oklahoma Treatment Services, have teamed up to offer mental health care and supportive services to all
veterans living in Southern Oklahoma and North Texas. You do not have to be a member of American Veterans to attend meet-ings or participate in any of the services provided. Most services are free of charge and meetings are every Monday from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. For more informa-tion, call (580) 920-2868 or (580) 931-3008.
Thursday’s High 79Thursday’s Low 44Precipitation 0.00Precip. This Month 0.00Precip. This Year 7.76
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Antlers 81 32 0.00Hugo 80 40 0.00Lane 79 38 0.00Madill 81 40 0.00Tishomingo 79 36 0.00
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Today: Sunny, with a high near 63. Northwest wind between 13 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. North northwest wind between 5 and 13 mph.
Elevation 616.07Normal Elevation 615.00Water Temp. 50
A cross section of calls to the Durant/Bryan County Communications Center
Wednesday3:17 a.m. loud music
College Inn3:42 loud muffler on car
woke them up Wilson St.6:59 four wheeler stolen
11000 block of Hwy. 228:03 fire 500 block of W.
Elm9:35 burglary 400 block
of N. 49th10:09 male busted win-
dow out of car 1200 block of Briarwood
12:03 p.m. domes-tic assault 700 block of Stonebrook
1:44 auto accident 1200
block of N.E. Second3:28 larceny Walmart4:17 auto accident Urgent
Care6:11 drunk man on
lawn mower Sherrer’s and Mexican restaurant
7:10 male says he got beat up 3300 block of N. First
7:11 five people hitting truck 100 block of First in Mead
7:52 man is there and drunk and wants his child 200 block of N. Brackett
9:32 threats 400 block of E. Leecraft
11:11 argument 300 block of Holcomb
11:55 smoke 900 block of Meadowlark
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