From The Files of

The Seminole Producer

After the first quarter of play there was no stopping the Seminole basketball chieftains here Friday night as they galloped to a 63-41 Star Conference victory over the Holdenville Wolverines.

John Randolph was the ringleader for Seminole once again with a 25 point spread, but Tom Sanders, 6-3 junior center, turned in one of his best performances of the season as he started at post and surprised fans with a 20-point outburst.

Seminole is now 7-8 in season play and 5-4 in the conference. In the preliminary junior varsity clash Seminole romped to a 55-46 triumph over the Holdenville JV.

Holdenville varsity captured a 9-7 lead after the first quarter of play, but Seminole used the 12 points supplies by Randolph to score 24 in the second quarter and take command of a 31-16 lead.

Sanders got hot from inside the circle during the third quarter as he nailed six field goals, scoring 12 points, to rocket the Chiefs to a 47-18 advantage. It was almost unbelievable, but the Chieftains held Holdenville to only two points during the third frame. The Wolverines showed a spark of life in the final period outscoring the Chieftain reserves 22-16, but the rally was not enough to melt away Seminole’s massive lead.

Woodrow Island rimmed 6 points to follow Sanders and Randolph. Others spinning the Chieftain assault were Chez Evans with 4 points and getting 2 each were Rickey Young, Chris Clark, Kenny Brooking and Mike Davis.

Robert Brown was the only scoring threat for the Wolverines as he netted 14 tallies. Next to him was Fleming with 5 while Chancelor scored 3, Byerly 2 and Golden 1. The loss was Holdenville’s second to the Chiefs this season after losing earlier in the year, 61-38.

The board battle was tough, but Seminole also dominated that part of the contest, 39 to 25. Randolph and Sanders teamed to lead Seminole in that department with 12 captures each while Evans and Island were next with 4 apiece.

SHS Coach Boyd Linduff said it was one of the Chieftain’s best showings this season. “We worked the ball well to the inside men and we were tough on the boards,” he said.

Tuesday the Chieftains will travel to Henryetta for a Star Conference contest. The game is a makeup one for an earlier season contest, which was postponed because of icy roads in December.

The varsity teams will clash at 8 p.m. and the junior varsity clubs at 6:30. The Seminole JV, under coach mike Rose, is 6-2 now in season play. -oOo WASHINGTON - President Nixon’s budget proposes to end the “humanitarian government begun by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, House Speaker Carl Albert said Monday.

“It is a big-business budget that leaves the common man out,” the Oklahoma Democrat said.

“The president proposes nothing less the the systemic dismantling and destruction of the great social programs and the great precedents of humanitarian government inaugurated by Franklin D. Roosevelt and advanced and enlarged by every Democratic president since.”

One of the jobs of Congress, Albert said, will be to “expose that budget, for what it is - nothing more than classic trickle-down budget in the classic Republican mold - a vehicle to make the rich richer in the hope that they will let some of their wealth trickle down to the laborers and farmers and workers who are responsible for this nation’s wealth in the first place.”

The speaker said he recognizes that Congress “as guardian of the purse” should look out for wasted money. But he said at the same time, “we will not permit the president to lay waste the great programs and the precedents of compassionate government which we have created and developed during the decades past.”

Albert said Nixon just recently paid tribute to Lyndon Johnson upon his death. Now, Albert said, “President Nixon proposed to tear down the great programs which Lyndon Johnson helped build education, urban renewal, hospitals and health care and countless social programs that reached out directly to the little guy, the person who needed them most.” -oOo JACKSON, Tenn. (UPI) Bank chairman Charles Arendale twice left $200,000 ransom beside a busy highway to free his kidnaped wife Monday and each time a passerby picked it up before the frustrated extortionist could reach it. Mrs. Arendale freed herself and escaped unharmed.

The bungled extortion attempt began shortly before noon when Arendale, chairman of the board of the Jackson State Bank, received a call telling him that his wife was being held hostage.

The extortionist, “dressed in a wig, highheeled shoes and a pair of black women’s slacks,” had entered the Arendale home while no one was there, Police Chief Have Marcum said, and took Mrs. Rebecca L. Arendale hostage when she returned.

Bank officials said Arendale negotiated with the caller and agreed to leave $200,000, instead of the $300,000 demanded, at a drop on a highway about 10 miles east of Jackson.

After notifying police, Marcum said Arendale put the money in a suitcase and dropped it at the specified location.

Shortly after the ransom money was put on the roadside, a Highway Department maintenance worker, whom Marcum declined to identify, happened along and picked up the suitcase. When he found money inside, the surprised worker turned the suitcase over to authorities and Arendale returned to his rambling, ranch style home in an affluent section of Northwest Jackson to await further instructions.

While the first drop was being made, Marcum said, Mrs. Arendale had freed herself from the “belts and ribbons” with which she was bound and escaped from the unlocked closet of a partially completed house in a new subdivision. Mrs. Arendale walked to the nearby home of a Jackson police officer, the chief said, and was immediately driven down to police headquarters.

By the time Arendale received a second call from the extortionist, Marcum said, the banker was aware that his wife had escaped unharmed, but her abductor apparently was not.

Authorities attempted to set a trap for her abductor on the second drop and, when the banker left the suitcase of money on the road, officers were waiting forth pickup.

But the suitcase was picked up by a “curious motorist,” who was immediately surrounded by law enforcement officers. He was found to have no connection with the case.

A statewide alert was issued for the abductor, thought to have been driving Mrs. Arendale’s green 1971 Pontiac, and the FBI joined the search. -oOo School Daze - The new sponsor for the high school Drill Team is Mrs. Wanda Sheppard. She has been the sponsor since December. Mrs. Sheppard is doing substitute teaching this year. For the past seven years she had been the Home economics teacher at Seminole high school.

Mrs. Sheppard said that she thinks the Drill Team adds a lot to the high school. She also enjoys working with the girls.

Friday will be the last performance of the Drill Team at a basketball game. ~ The Pep Club is hosting a basketball game against the Drill Team. The game will be played on Saturday, February 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym. Girls are practicing now to get ready for the game. Some the high school basketball boys are coaching the girls. ~ School Daze Slants Nevin Cooper finishing the last of the red hots... Debbie Lewis is making a color wheel... Kath Fielding stopped at noontime... Carl Hill being put in a trash can... Dana Sanders saying she won’t be coming to school Saturday... Denise Parker playing janitor... Gina Franklin wanting to twirp a junior... Chris Heinzig putting on mascara... Sally Hardin wearing a clip... Randy Nix getting moved... Kay Ferguson deciding what’s right... Vickie Stewart thinking she had the “flu”... Jenny King having an illusion... Priscilla Morgan seeing gray dots... Ray Harrington forgetting to read the directions... Kent Cooper telling a teacher to make out a test herself... Glenda Plumlee copying some homework... David Hall playing a solo.

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