March 23, 1971

Thirty-five cars and some 300 Seminole Community Junior College students paraded Monday through Seminole business district urging Seminole voters to adopt the penny sales tax for operation and building of the local college. Voters are deciding today on whether the city will vote the tax. Polls are open until 7 p.m.

Two burglaries were reported to city police over the weekend. The first was at the Smith Help Yourself Laundry, 5 ^th and Broadway. Police said that sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning someone had broken into the pop machine in the business and had taken the change in the machine.

Also reported stolen to police was a Double Eagle Battery, taken from a vehicle at the M.C. Morris residence of 421 North Highland. Police reported the battery was taken sometime Saturday night or early Sunday. The cables connected to the battery had been cut police said.

Seminole county placed one student on the Ford Foundation scholarship list for assistance to Junior College students planning four year college courses.

The help is designed minority group students . Jerry A. Hunt of Route 2, Wewoka, was winner of the Foundation award at Eastern Oklahoma State College at Wilburton.

Slants

Seminole Junior College students hauling voters to the polls today…People wanting rides may call the college at 382-3430…Tom Belshe reminding area fishermen that the Oklahoma Wildlife fishing tournament will open its preliminary rounds April 4, and one of the lakes where the opening rounds will be held is the Seminole Sportsman Lake…All anglers wishing to enter the tournament should contact Belshe at the downtown headquarters of the Seminole Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company…Clinton Jackson and Jeannie Rees were the latest ones to turn in Betty Crocker coupons to the Producer to help in the Kiwanis campaign to buy a kidney machine for use in eastern part of the state …Producer News Editor Al Givens is taking a week’s vacation this week…Special Events Editor Milt Phillips is covering for him on the News Desk…

Annette Rider, of Wewoka, will be one of the contestants who will participate in the Annual Miss Seminole Pageant, which will be held in the Seminole high school auditorium on April 10. Winner of the Miss Seminole Pageant will compete in the Miss Oklahoma Pageant.

Miss Rider is a senior at Wewoka high school this year and she plans to attend Oklahoma University next year She is uncertain about her career at this time, but she does plan to major in art and drama.

Seminole High School

Slants

Randy Strayhorn wondering where someone was at a party…Jamie Crawford waving at a friend…Lynda Dyck doing an errand for a friend…Bill Hayes talking to a friend at a party…Mark Hickman staying out of a conversation on purpose…

Blue Bell Operator of the month for February is Pauletta Vulgamore, it was announced today by Betty Casey, Blue Bell supervisor. Mrs. Vulgamore works in the felling operation of the local plant.

She is the 1959 graduate of Seminole high school and the wife of Larry Vulgamore, who she married in November of 1963.