50 Years Ago
From The Files of The Seminole Producer
May 2, 1971
President Elmer Tanner of Seminole Junior College presented a check of $50 to Darrell King, a freshman at Seminole Junior College, for winning the Carl Albert speech award at the college. King in competition this past week also won the State Carl Albert Contest. For winning the state contest he was given a check for $100. The title of King’s winning speech was “Our Changing Society.” Congressman Carl Albert sponsors the state meet because of his interest in public speaking.
Insurance agency’s new home at 310 North Main street was opened last week when Sullivan Dollar Insurance Agency Inc. moved from a leased building at 210 North Main.
Slants
Supt. Bryce Hill supplying a bit of needed info for a news story…Chamber Manager Bob Jones reminding all cityans that city trucks will be moving over the city Monday and Tuesday picking up rubbish and trash and tree trimmings stacked at curbs…This is the final pickup for the year in the Clean-Up Campaign… Slants welcomes Mrs. Don Brown and the Brown’s young son and daughter to Seminole…They arrived Friday night from their home in Springfield, Mo., and are now residing in their Seminole home at 933 Coolidge…Suzanne Easter being kidded about bunny rabbits…Dr. Hubert L. Callaway reminding that the Board of Education and the Junior College Board of Trustees wont’ meet unitl Monday night, May 10… Mrs. W.H. Brown brought in a large packet of Betty Crocker coupons to be used on the purchase of a kidney machine for the area…
The Seminole Junior College will award either Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degrees to 62 graduates at the commencement exercises to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, in the Seminole high school stadium, President Elmer Tanner announced Friday.
A jury term of the Seminole Division of Seminole County District Court for the trial of 19 cases now pending on the court’s civil docket has been set to convene Monday, May 17, at 9 a.m. by District Judge Rudolph Hargrave.
To hear those cases set for trial on the jury docket, a venire of 99 jurors taken from the tax rolls of the county has been summoned to report to Judge Hargrave in Seminole at 9 a.m., May 17.
Seminole High School
Slants
Frances Young still signing yearbooks…Cheryl Hunter going into the band room…Cindy Rudich practicing her instrument… Nancy Maytubby doing an errand in the office…Mike James studying for an English test…
Seminole city council will meet Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in council chambers, municipal building, Mayor Waldo Lilly announced Friday.
A request for a radio tower from Civil Defense; a traffic report from Oklahoma highway department; ordinances governing classification of employment for city employees; an ordinance regulating animals within city limits; ordinances governing abandoned vehicles and use of sanitary sewer system; and an ordinance making maximum periods of service on city boards and commissions two terms, will be considered, the mayor announced.