September 23, 1971

Slants

Jan Jackson being an angel to some needy friends… Helen McCown being plenty busy waiting on two sons with broken arms and tending five baby calves… Tony Leonard making a good cub scout report… Betty Klintworth of Shawnee having lunch with Hattie Thrower at a local restaurant… Jan Boren and Janet Seay lunching together… Norma Brawner, fourth grade teach at Roosevelt, appreciating the cards from her homeroom students while she is confined to her home with a ‘siege of the flu’… “These certainly have made the home stay a lot easier,” she said this morning…

The “New Look” of the Seminole Municipal Court began shaping up more today with the announcement by Judge William C. Wantland that a Traffic Violations Bureau had been established in the municipal court clerk’s office. Here any person charged with any traffic offense except drunken driving, reckless driving, transporting an open bottle or container of liquor or beer, or speeding where the speed is 15 mph or more over the legal limit may enter a guilty plea and pay a traffic fine without appearing in court.

Persons charged with public drunk also may enter a guilty plea and pay their fine at the Traffic Bureau, the judge added.

All other cases in the court will require that defendants in these appear in court whether they wish to enter guilty or not guilty pleas.

Judge Wantland said that in the past it has been customary to let a person post a bond following his arrest by city police and then not appear for trial if he chose, and forfeit the bond. The judge pointed out that under Oklahoma law the case can be disposed of only by a plea of the defendant in court – either guilty or not guilty which is followed by a trial.

Honored some time ago at a wedding gift shower in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jolenny Vaughn was Mrs. Debra Nunnelley Pak. Hostesses were Gayla Vaughn and Paula Proctor. White bells and blue bows were featured in the home’s décor.

Refreshments were served from a white lace-covered table. White cake was trimmed with blue frosting. Punch was ladled from a crystal bowl.

Guests were from Wetumka, Shawnee, Seminole and Strother communities. About 30 guests shared in the occasion.