August 19, 1971

Slants

Coach J. B. Flatt reminding all eighth and ninth graders, who plan to play junior high football at Seminole this year, that physical examinations are to be taken at 7 p.m. at Pace-Chambers Clinic Friday night… Bob Blackburn getting quite a sunburn from working all day at the Lions Club “kiddie” rides Wednesday…

Seminole City Manager Don Bown announced today that Terry Craig Thomason, 21, of Wewoka has been hired as a radio patrolman for the Seminole police department.

Thomason has been assigned the 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. shift. He will work as a radio dispatcher and reserve patrolman.

He is single, a 1968 graduate of Wewoka high school, and is presently a PFC in the Oklahoma National Guard. In the service he has completed a special radio communications school.

For the past two years he has worked for the Wewoka police department as a dispatcher. Thomason is a graduate of traffic accident investigation school which was taught by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Thomason will attend a police teletype school soon and this fall will be attending school at Oklahoma University. He will be enrolled in the OU police school.

All members of the Seminole Roundup Club were asked today by Club Vice President Al Johnson to have their horses at the rodeo grounds here at 3:30 p.m. Saturday for transporting to Tecumseh.

The local club will ride in the Tecumseh Rodeo parade later in the afternoon Saturday and compete for one of the three parade prizes offered.

Johnson also said that the local rounduppers will hold a “Play Day” at the local arena Sunday from 1 p.m. The general public is invited and there is no charge, he added.

Captain Donald L. Martin received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at the summer convocation at Campbell college in Buies Creek, North Carolina, Campbell President Norman A. Wiggins announced. The local officer is the son of Mrs. Paul Martin, 1913 Grisso drive, city, and the late Mr. Martin.

The Seminole man was one of the 12 Army officers and enlisted men who have been attending Campbell to finish degrees under the Degree Completion program of the U.S. Army.