Volume 112 No. 45 75 Cents Thursday February 11, 2010P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail bcnews@ptsi.net

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TODAY IN HISTORYFEB. 11

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

BORN ON FEB. 11

We give a tip of the hat to:

ATTENTION!!

1909 Max Baer [TheLivermore Larruper]Omaha NB, heavyweightboxing champion (1934-35)/actor (The Prize-fighter and the Lady)1909 Joseph LMankiewicz Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/di-rector (Sleuth)1934 Tina Louise NewYork NY, actress (Ginger-Gilligan’s Island, Julie-Dallas)1942 Archie Andrewscomic book character(Archie)1997 Michael Jackson Jrson of Michael Jackson

0660 -BC- Traditionalfounding of Japan byEmperor Jimmu Tenno1752 Pennsylvania Hos-pital, the 1st hospital inthe US, opened1766 Stamp Act declaredunconstitutional in Vir-ginia1768 Samuel Adams let-ter, circulates aroundAmerican colonies, op-posing Townshend Acttaxes1790 Society of Friendspetitions Congress forabolition of slavery1809 Robert Fulton pat-ents the steamboat1861 US House unani-mously passes resolu-tion guaranteeing nonin-terference with slaveryin any state1861 President-electLincoln takes train fromSpingfield IL to Wash-ington DC1942 “Archie” comicbook debuts1943 GeneralEisenhower selected tocommand the alliedarmies in Europe1958 Ruth Carol Tayloris 1st African-Americanwoman hired as flight at-tendant1969 Dorey Funk Jrbeats Gene Kiniski inTampa, to become NWAchampion

2-5Julio Oscar Guillen- Drivingunder suspension, licenserevoked.

2-8Nicole Amanda Lopez- Nodriver’s license

Rep. GusBlackwell, Sen.Bryce Marlatt,and Former

Sen. Owen Laughlin fortheir efforts to obtainschool land money.

The Jan. 1 charges of DUI(drugs), listed againstChristy Sandavol in theJan. 7, The Boise CityNews have been dis-missed.

The Storm Watchermeeting will be April 5,at 7 p.m. in the PTCIbuilding

Beautiful Snow brings havoc...Though beautiful, the snow and ice of the last two weekshas brought with it, the usual problems. Above and right,these two trucks collided head-on last Thursday aboutfour miles south on Highway 287. One driver was takento Cimarron Memorial Hospital and released. The truckbelow at left, hit the overpass early Tuesday morningand the cab went over the railing. There were no inju-ries. There was at least one more truck wreck just eastof the overpass on Monday.

Town Council present atmeeting were Leslie Cobb,Chris Wood, and Chantry Davis.

Employees present J. C.Moser, Billye Lowe, Lynn Jones, Kelley Meeks and LindaBetts.

No fire runs were reportedfor the past month..Lynn JonesEMS Director reported oneambulance run.

City Policeman, Kelly Meekspresented monthly police report.

An OEDA representativewas at the meeting to presentContract for REAP Grant for 2010.

Council approved plan for2010 CDBG/REAP Grant

State REAP Grant of$56,460.00 for ambulance.CDBG is Federal Grant whichcan match the REAP Grant.

CDBG Grant is funded by theFederal Stimulus Plan.

Resolution #04-10 is ap-proved to commit $10,000.00 oflocal funding.

Fund raisers have been held to raise these funds.

Council went into executivesession to discuss Police De-partment.

.After coming out of execu-tive session, the council voted toaccept Rusty Rippetoes resig-nation..

In the Utility Meeting theCouncil approved raising rateson solid waste from $20.00 to $25.00,

Water rates from $10.00 to$15.00 for 2000 gallons, andSewer rates from $10.00 to$12.00.

The Council approved J.C. Moser to attend the Okla-homa Rural Water AssociationMeeting on April 19, 20, 21,2010 at Midwest City, Okla-homa.

The next meeting will beMarch 4 at 7 p.m.

KEYESCOUNCILMEETS

by Birdie Walker

The beauty of snow...At right, Kaley Conner, of Keyes, shares the limelightwith her snowman creation. Abundant snow and continu-ing cold temperatures has meant long lives for snow crea-tures.

by C.F. DavidCimarron Memorial Hospital

is in trouble, and an early tax elec-tion is planned by the CimarronCounty Commissioners to easethose problems as well as helpother county entities such as theSoutar Memorial Library, the Ci-marron County Fair, the CourtHouse Revolving Fund and thesoon to be re-established Cimar-ron County Extension Office. Theelection would be for a two per-cent sales tax over four years.One and one-half percent of thattax would support the hospital andthe other one-half percent wouldbe divided between the other en-tities.

According to documents ob-tained from the office of the Ci-marron County Clerk’s Office byThe Boise City News, CimarronMemorial Hospital has an IRS taxlien against it for a total of$491,860.48. The lien is for thetax years of 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Board Chairman Paul Toonsaid that the lien is the fines andinterest on unpaid payroll taxes,and that the total bill is $1.1 mil-

Cimarron County’s Hospital in Trouble with U.S. InternalRevenue; Hospital’s Future, Success of Library, Fair andExtension Office Hinge on April 6, 2010 Tax Vote

lion.Toon added that the funds

raised by the tax vote should itpass, would be used to first payoff the tax liability. Toon con-tinued to say that should the votefail, the IRS could choose toclose the doors of CimarronMemorial, and the tax liabilitywill fall on the immediate pastboard members, Toon, SylviaHall, Ralph Warren, Matt Rob-erts, (he resigned earlier thisyear), Lois Burkhalter, and alsohospital employee Kathy Rob-erts.

Toon said the tax debt wasdue to “a misunderstanding”and that while he feared losingthe public’s confidence and sup-port for the hospital, he at thesame time didn’t want theboard to appear to be coveringup the problems.

Toon said that VolunteerCEO Dave Peyock is still work-ing as a volunteer even thoughhe is recovering from orthope-dic surgery.

“He is in rehabilitation, but

is assisting in personnel mat-ters,” Toon added.

Toon also admitted that thetax lien isn’t all of the hospital’sproblems. He said that theClayton, N.M. bank which hadstepped in as a White Knight afew years ago, has had a man-agement change and at thistime would not entertain anymore loans when the presentloan is paid in January 2011.

“We’ll probably have to startshopping for a bank,” Toonsaid.

As for the recent interest inthe possible purchase of thehospital by Kansas City, Mo’sHMC/CAH, Toon could onlysay that Cimarron Memorial isgathering more financials andthat HMC/CAH hadn’t saidno.

Toon said that earlier thisyear some attempt was madeby former board member MattRoberts to attract a NursePractitioner or Physician Assis-tant, but for now the hospitalwould use professionals from

“Docs Who Care” to give relieffor the Drs. Wheeler.

County Clerk ColleenCrabtree said that last year thesales tax raised $334,877.15 andthat .5 percent of that amountwould have been $83,719.30.

“But we can’t be sure there’llbe that much next year,” sheadded.

Crabtree explained that thefour entities named to share the.5 percent were areas that hadbeen cut earlier from the county’sbudget.

“We just felt like we neededto ask for part of that two per-cent since that’s what we needto keep up our buildings and thecourthouse,” said CommissionerKenneth Maness.

“When I was told about that,(the tax lien), I about fell over. ButI hate that the board might be heldresponsible for that,” Manesssaid.

“But somebody, is gonna paythat tax bill,” interjected Commis-sioner Bill Percifield.

The Boise City Alumni As-sociation has dwindled to fouractive members who have beenthe backbone of the organiza-tion for close to two decades.We are in desparate need ofvolunteers with new ideas andenergy to take on this programas the current members are giv-ing it up due to other obligations.

If anyone is interested, agroup of individuals, a club,or aclass, please contact CleoCamilli, Cathy Richardson,Carmen Dadisman or JimBelford. Hopefully in 2012 areunion will be planned by a newgroup. In June, during Santa FeTrail Daze, there will be a visi-tation at the Fair Building onSaturday tentatively scheduledfrom 4-8 pm. No dinner is be-ing planned at this point.

We encourage individualclasses to schedule get-togethers during the Trail Dazeweekend. If addresses areneeded, please contact one ofthe members.

Please help us spread theword in case someone might beinterested in taking on this job.

by C.F. DavidThe Cimarron County Com-

mission advised on Monday thatthe county had received a largerthan normal check from themoney collected on school landleases. Cimarron County accord-ing to information to the countycommissioners from the schoolland commission has about 22percent of the state’s school landinside its borders.

Cimarron County Clerk Col-leen Crabtree said the total checkwas for $470,862.80. Of thatamount, the county’s general fundwill get 16 percent, or just over$75 thousand for next year’s bud-get, the EMS will receive three

SOMETHING TOTHINK ABOUT

County Receives Larger Than Usual Check From School Land;Commissioners Warn Next Year Might Not See a Repeat

percent or just over $14 thou-sand. The rest will be dividedamong the county’s school dis-tricts according to the amountof school land in each district,with Boise City’s I-2 having themost acreage and getting thelargest check.

The Cimarron County Com-missioners, Kenneth Maness,John Howard Freeman and BillPercifield were in consensus insaying that a big thank youshould go to State Rep. GusBlackwell as well as JuniorState Senator Bryce Marlatt,(in fact former Senator OwenLaughlin should also get a nod),

for their hard work in squeez-ing the money out of the legis-lature.

All three men faced an up-hill battle getting more moneyfrom the leases on school land,even having to re-write legis-lation ruled un-Constitutional bythe state’s attorney general, (af-ter he’d first said it would passmuster).

The trio of commissionersalso advised locals not to nec-essarily expect such a windfallnext year, since the legislaturehas proven to prefer spendingthe land money for trees alongOklahoma City’s Lincoln Blvd.

near the capital building, or forjanitorial maintenance on thecapital and the governor’s man-sion rather than sending it backto county government.

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear. Except a creature be partcoward it is not a compliment to say it is brave;it is merely a loose application of the word.Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravestof all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fearwere courage.” - Mark Twain

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