September 7, 1971

Slants

Bill Cohlman being declared the winner of a $100 gift certificate awarded by local VFW post… Wesley Smith remarking that the weather wasn’t too good for fishing this past weekend… The Labor Day holiday keeping John Howell from making a flying visit to Mena, Arkansas, to see relatives over Saturday and Sunday… Ike Sweaney joining a Labor Day family Reunion in Lincoln, Arkansas, on Sunday and returning today…

Rena Gayle Bemo, 17 of Wewoka, was all smiles after it was announced Saturday afternoon that she was the winner of the 1971 Seminole tribal princess contest. The naming of the princess was part of the Seminole Nation Day celebration which was observed in Seminole Saturday.

Mr. Stanley Bowman, instructor at Seminole high school, has had an interesting project going this past week. In his Earth Science classes, students have been doing placer mining for gold.

During summer months while vacationing and attending college classes in Colorado, Mr. Bowman picked up a quantity of dirt and rock containing gold particles, to bring home with him.

He explained to his classes how weather, water and chemicals cause erosion of rocks in which particles of have been deposited many years past. Erosion causes this sedimentary rock soil to wash into creeks and as water flows on, it settles on the creek bed. That is where the gold exists.

Miners then dig up part of the ground, place the sedimentary soil in shallow pans and swirl with water to allow the gold to settle to the bottom, then the remainder of the rock and dirt is washed away, leaving the gold fragments. This is called a placer gold mining operation.

Marlow was just what they were predicted to be – large and strong – but the Seminole football Chieftains still whipped them three touchdowns to one, Friday in a controlled scrimmage at Chieftain Stadium, before some 800 fans.

The game ended on a bad “sportsmanship” note after some hour and a half of playing when a fight between members of the Seminole team and Marlow team broke out and the Marlow coach ordered his team off the field. As the Outlaws left the field yells of “chicken” and other “cat calls” were heard coming from the Seminole stands.