January 3, 1971

SLANTS

Neva Oliver showing a friend pictures of her cute grandchildren... Mary Katherine Shuler and daughter Paula shopping around town and being accompanied by Paula’s twin daughters... Ruby Baker talking about meeting a new neighbor... Marj Stonaker writing her usual, interesting annual letter to friends and adding personal notes to the bottom of the mimeographed missile...

An Indian couple, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson Jr. of 1211 South Mekusukey in Wewoka are the parents of the first baby born in Seminole county in 1971, a check of hospitals Saturday showed.

The baby, a boy, was born at 10:45 p.m. New Year’s Day in Wewoka Memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces, and is the couple’s first child.

Charles H. Young of 1810 Moffett, Killeen, Texas, a soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, and spending his leave in the Seminole area, was treated for an accidental gunshot wound Friday evening at Seminole Municipal hospital, city police reported.

Police said Young, who is visiting in the Bob Williams home on Route 2, Seminole, was practicing a `quick draw’ at the Williams home with a .22 caliber pistol mounted on a 45 caliber frontier frame when he accidentally shot himself in the leg.

Young told police that the weapon slipped from his hand, and discharged. The bullet hit the calf of his right leg about 10 inches below the knee. The bullet was removed in the emergency room at the hospital and Young was released.

Seminole’s new city manager finds his first major problem in his new job is finding a satisfactory place to live. “We are hopeful,” Don Bown, the new manager told The Producer from his home in Springfield, Mo., Friday, “that we can find a suitable place so the family can move to Seminole before February 1.”

Mr. and Mrs. Bown have two children, Melissa, age 8 and Mathew, age 7. Bown is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas and Mrs. Bown is a native of St. Louis, Mo. Neither have ever lived in Oklahoma.

The new manager’s civic activities have been in Scouting, safety programs, civil defense and similar activities. The family is active in the Covenant Presbyterian church of Springfield.

The monthly meeting of the Seminole Roundup Club will be held Monday night at Pat’s Café, Johnny Roberts, president of the club said Saturday. The meeting is slated for 8 p.m.

According to Roberts, business at the meeting will include the regular monthly business, and he urged all members to attend the meeting.