January 5, 1971

SLANTS

All county schools are back in session following the Christmas-New Year holiday period… Seminole Junior College returns to classes January 13, and other area colleges will start back in days following up to January 18… Al Knight of Maud doing a favor… Bob Jones giving some interesting sidelights on his Florida trip over the holidays… Even had an anti-freeze problem, he said…

A Wewoka driver, Troy Bramblett, 55, of 228 East 1 ^st , suffered minor injuries Saturday afternoon in a one-car accident, the highway patrol reported.

Trooper Sam Laffoon of Seminole said that Bramblett was travelling south from Cromwell on Highway 56, lost control of his car on the wet pavement, crisscrossed the highway, and then hit an embankment on the east side.

Bramblett was treated at Wewoka Memorial hospital and released. Damage to his car estimated at $250.

City police reported over the weekend that three more business firms had plate glass windows hit by vandals using pellet guns. These included Arthur Choate Liquor Store, First National Bank, and Broadway Garage.

Four firms previously damaged by the vandals have offered a $300 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits.

A storeroom on a Humble Oil Company lease, located a mile east and a mile south of Little, was broken into over the weekend, the sheriff’s office reported this morning. A special oil gauge and a plastic case portable radio were the only items missing, Sheriff W. C. Merryfield said.

The Seminole Chieftains will open the 1971 half of their cage season tonight at Henryetta when they take on the Henryetta Hens in a Five-Star Conference game. The two conference rivals collide at 8:00 p.m. at the Hen’s field house after the Seminole Braves and Henryetta’s “B” team clash at 6:30.

Coach Boyd Linduff’s Chieftains led by rangy senior forward Bill Hays, who is averaging 23.9 points a game, have won six of eight starts overall and two of three in the conference race. Coach J. B. Flatt’s Braves stand undefeated, winning three games out of three played.