July 8, 1971

Slants

City Manager Don Bown saying that an announcement of the first spraying for mosquito control this summer will be made shortly…In some areas of the city they already are reported to have handy squadrons already based and at work…Court Clerk T.G. Harrison commuting daily from Wewoka to Seminole to keep the clerk’s office here operating while Deputy Mildred Post is on vacation…Anyone having items of historical interest about Seminole should call the Chamber of Commerce, 382-3640…They will be placed in a display during the Oil Boom celebration this month…

James Keith Shaw, a native of Snyder, who was a member of the Travis Junior High School faculty in Irving, Texas last year, will be the new principal of Roosevelt-Central Elementary School here for the coming term, Superintendent Donald E. Smith announced today. Shaw fills the vacancy in the post formerly held by C.G. Pound who resigned to take a position in the Crooked Oak schools.

It was a wee bit cooler at noon today in Seminole with an 88-degree reading reported as the official temperature by the National Weather Service after a low Wednesday night of 73. The high temperature Wednesday pushed for the 100-degree mark again but missed by one—99 degrees.

The Oklahoma City school system, with more than 1,000 applications for teaching jobs on file and fewer than 100 vacancies to fill, is being highly selective in its hiring policies.