September 19, 1971

Slants

Mrs. Frank Spaniel being a patient in Seminole Municipal hospital… Phillip Parks doing a hurry-up job for a friend… Arvilla Altman having a new, interesting dictionary…

Friday afternoon enrollment for the fall 1971 semester at Seminole Junior College ended with a final count of 704 students enrolled, which is a gain of 100 students from last fall, a check with the college registrar’s office showed.

Last fall’s enrollment totaled 604 students while 364 students were enrolled for the fall of 1969.

By classes there are 466 freshmen and 202 sophomores, while 36 students are in special programs and are unclassified. There are 413 male students and 291 female students.

Oklahoma City will be the site of the National Finals for sprint cars in the International Motor Contest Association races during the State Fair of Oklahoma.

The powerful Indianapolis 500-type cars will race at the Fairgrounds Speedway Saturday afternoon, October 2 at 2 p.m., and Sunday night, October 3 at 7:30 p.m., in Grand National point races to close the 1971 season.

They are part of the 14-race program of Mar-Car, Inc., during the State Fair of Oklahoma.

The top drivers in the IMCA circuit, highly popular in the Midwest, will be shooting for high 1971 rankings for the big purse as well as a high standing to entice more support from sponsors and owners in 1972.

Some 3,500 fans watched the non district contest, the Chiefs’ second of the season, which had been tabbed earlier as the top Class 2A game of the week.

Seminole, who the state press predicted would lose the contest by two points, used their massive defense, anchored by tackles David “Moose” Lawyer and Chez Evans, to keep the speedy Panther running backs in check.

Meanwhile the Chiefs’ offense, led by quarterback Larry Inman, clicked off two field-length scoring drives to tie with the Panthers, who went to the air-lanes once to score and tallied another time on a short drive.

The Chieftains got on the scoreboard early in the first quarter, but the Panthers erupted for two quick scores in the second period as Pauls Valley went to the dressing room at halftime carrying a 13-7 lead.

Seminole tied the contest up in the opening minute of the fourth quarter. From there the contest continued until time ran out with both teams having players injured.