January 13, 1971

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Permit Clerk Wesley Smith being absent from his job since Tuesday because of illness... He’s acquired the ‘virus’ which is prevailing in the area at present... Clarence Clark alerting our news desk for a story coming soon... Frieda Givens returning from a three-week visit to daughter, Marie Laird, and children Marrero, Louisiana... Mrs. Don Brooks being given a housewarming in her new home by several friends Monday... The Brookses recently moved into the home at 1327 Roosevelt...

County Treasurer James Harrod distributed nearly $1.2 million in county funds this past week $1,169,189.10 to be exact—to various county funds and agencies. This represented the December, 1970 tax collections and other funds on hand at the close of business on December 31.

This was the largest distribution the county treasurer has made in the past year. Of the total distributed, county school districts received $866,146.69 which will enable them to get back into ‘the black’ for the remainder of the school term.

The 33r° Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Asso-ciation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts will be held January 18-19 at the Skirvin Hotel, in Oklahoma City, according to R. C. Longmire, Pauls Valley, president of the group.

Conservation district supervisors from every district in the State will be attending this meeting. The two day meeting will deal with ways to improve the effectiveness of conservation districts in working with both rural and urban people.

The general session, Monday, January 18, 1971, will feature Dr. Cecil Wadleigh, director of Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, Agriculture Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, as the keynote speaker. Dr. Wadleigh’s speech will be “Resource Conservation Is Pollution Abatement.”

Rep. David Boren of Seminole said in Oklahoma City today that Seminole has a big stake in the new session of the legislature. He cited redistricting, legislation affecting the oil industry, and measures to help the junior college as of great interest to Seminole.

This week Boren has been gathering co-sponsors for his bill to give municipal junior college like Seminole full state financing, a measure that would give the junior college about $75,000 more state money. “Members from other junior college districts are all co-sponsoring,” Boren said, “and we will again have a good team effort.”

The House Oil and Gas Committee will consider this week a bill by Boren to repeal the current bonding requirements of the state plugging law. If the law which has proved unworkable because of the failure to provide a term and release date on the bonds is not repealed it would shut down over 75 percent of the oil producers in the state, according to the Corporation Commission. “Seminole county will be hurt economically unless the legislature acts promptly on my bill which Senator McSpadden is sponsoring in the Senate,” Boren said. The anti-pollution portions of the current law will be kept intact.