July 25,1971

Slants

David Grimes reporting that they found the dog which recently hit his 18-monthold son…It belonged to the Joe Cumptons south of city and had strayed away from a picnic over a week ago and finally returned home this past week…Grimes said that the dog is now being checked for rabies by a local veterinarian… Permit Clerk Wesley Smith, who also repairs sewing machines, informing our news desk that he is not the person reported as having been shot in the “40 Years Ago” column…That Wesley Smith is now a mortician at Sapulpa and very much alive says the local Wesley Smith…The summer term of Seminole Junior College ends next Friday…Seminole county’s horse population may be a big surprise to many people, says County Extension Director Warren Jones…Alpha Swearingen talking about a one-day regional city clerks and treasurers school held here this past week…Mrs. E. Evans of Route 3 growing a cantaloupe that weighed eight pounds…She’s had some whoppers in this year’s crop…

No report had been received by late Saturday afternoon from Atlanta on tests being conducted on 11 cases of suspected Venezuelan sleeping sickness in Oklahoma, a spokesman for the state health department said.

High temperature in Seminole Saturday was 86 degrees after a Friday night low of 69, the local station of the National Weather Service reported. Friday’s high reading was 81 degrees and at 5 p.m. Saturday it was 85 here. Rainfall Friday night and early Saturday totaled 9-hundreths, making the total for the 48-hour period of .81 inch.

The planned bond elections on July 27 for two area school districts—Varnum and Strother—were called off Friday by County Election Board Secretary Ruby Hurley when she was notified by attorneys for prospective bond buyers that the two elections did not meet the requirements of the new school code.

Webster Dictionary defines a mosquito as “any of numerous two-winged flies with females having a set of slender organs adapted to puncture the skin of animals to suck blood and being, in some cases, vectors of serious disease.” Seminole city residents have another name and definition for mosquitos, however, it’s unprintable.

Thousands of Oklahoma army national guardsmen traveled in convoys over eastern Oklahoma highways Saturday. Some had completed two weeks of summer camp and others were just starting.

Three Oklahoma youths will spend the weekend in the Pratt County Jail before embarking on a full week of picking wild marijuana— legally.

When the month of August rolls around people, especially sports minded people, start thinking about football. And in just about three weeks it will be football time in Seminole once again.