September 14, 1971

Slants

Sharon Hale Post being the new deputy court clerk in the office of County Clerk T. G. Harrison at Wewoka… She held the position prior to her marriage then left, and recently returned to Seminole to fill an existing vacancy… Supt. Donald E. Smith, new head of Seminole County Schoolmasters, announcing the first meeting of the group for the new term will be Monday night, Sept. 20, at New Lima… Names of Mrs. Fred Oliver and Mrs. Truman Branscum being inadvertently omitted from a Republican Women’s club report…

City firemen were kept busy Monday afternoon with three runs. The first was to a point 7.5 miles southeast of city where an OG&E heavy duty service truck caught fire from an unknown source. Heavy damage resulted to the vehicle as well as the equipment, including a basket lift on the vehicle.

Later in the afternoon a run was made to a grass fire on the Rock Island right-of-way two and a half miles east of city on US 270 where a train had set fire to a large area of dead grass.

Shortly before 7 p.m. Monday firemen were called to 1700 State by a house fire. A two-room frame house belonging to Guiles Dawson and unoccupied was destroyed. Cause of fire was unknown.

Steve Reynolds of Seminole, junior at Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, has been named to the developments committee of Sigma Tau Gamma, social fraternity on the campus for the current school term. Bill Thompson, Tulsa senior heads the fraternity chapter.

In the just-completed clothing drive, members of Seminole’s United Presbyterian Women collected 224 pounds of useable clothing and it was delivered to Shawnee to carry out the World Christian Service project. A report was given at the UPW meeting this past week in First Presbyterian church parlors.

The Seminole Braves won their opener of the season Monday night at Cushing by defeating the Cushing B-team 14 to 6. The game was played at Cushing.