From The Files of The Seminole Producer

Cluttered Corner $25,000 to Boost Governor’s Vanity By Milt Phillips “JUST ASK GOVERNOR WALLACE if it’s worth it,” Oklahoma Governor David Hall told newsmen this week when they asked about his proposed spending of $25,000 of state taxpayer money to install a picture-teevee-telephone system between the Governor’s capitol building office and his house a couple of blocks away.

Baloney, Governor. George Wallace was out campaigning in a mob of people and got shot in the stomach. What does an attempt to kill a campaigning candidate have in common with a Governor of a state attending to the state’s business? Or are you planning to run for a national office? Would such a campaign be conducted within and between your house and office? Come now, David, let’s not impose so heavily on the people’s intelligence – we may be gullible, but not that gullible. Thanks to Seminole State Representative David Boren, the people of the state know about this proposed waste of money to satisfy our Governor’s vanity – and heard about it early enough to tell their state legislators to apply this $25,000 on the Guv’s “First preference” state function- Education -oOo WEWOKA – Seminole’s Chieftains suffered a severe cold spell and socred only four points in the last 11 minutes of play as the high-flying Wewoka Tigers charged to a 54-36 victory to win the Class 2A District tournament here Friday before a capacity crowd.

The girl’s District crown was won by Holdenville, 26-24, when they best Tecumseh, who led 13-9 at the half but lost their lead in the final two quarter.

All four teams will advance to Regional tournaments at a site to be announce early this week. Seminole will enter a Runners- up Regional and Wewoka will play in a Winner’s Regional.

Two Wewoka scoring sprees – one late in the second quarter and the other late in the third and early fourth periods – nailed the Tiger’s their championship. The victory lifted Wewoka to a 19-3 season.

Johnny King, 6-2 forward, led scoring for the Tigers with 20 points while Al Roberts, a nifty 5-11 guard, rimmed 14. Wewoka hit a sizzling 26 of 50 shots for a percentage of 52, and canned two of five free shots for 40 percent.

Chieftain forward John Randolph, who injured his ankle with 2:33 left in the game, was the only Chief to score in double figures. He banged 16 points and Chris Clark followed with eight. Seminole staggered home in the hitting department with a 38-percentage hitting only 17 of 49 field shots, and from the charity line hit only two of nine shots for a 27 percent average.

Seminole, who defeated Tecumseh Thursday in the semifinals 49-40, played shot-for-shot with Wewoka in the first quarter and the Tigers led only 14-12 at its conclusion. Seminole with 2:15 left on the first period clock held a lead of 12-8, its last and best lead of the night.

In the second quarter Clark scored from the top of the key to tie the score 18-18 with 5:23 left to play. From there, however, things went sour for the Chiefs. The Tigers ripped three straight baskets and hit a free shot to blast their advantage to 25-18 with 2:11 left before intermission.

At the half Wewoka held a 31-24 lead over the Chieftains.

Terry Devore and Woodrow Island scored backto- back baskets to bring the Chiefs back to within three, 33-30, with 6:35 on the third period clock, and when Randolph scored at 5:26 Wewoka held a 35-32 lead.

But, from that point Seminole started committing errors, and Wewoka’s King started burning the nets. King hit five straight jumpers to put Wewoka out front 45-32 at the end of the period.

Wewoka continued to score while Seminole couldn’t buy a basket in the final frame. Wewoka ran its lead up to 50-32 then Chez Evans scored on an inside jump shot to change Seminole’s score for the first time in some eight minutes.

Devore, with 51 seconds left, and Rickey Young, with 15 seconds remaining, each hit one free shot to finish Seminole’s scoring. In the final 11 minutes of play Seminole had scored four points while Wewoka had melted 19 points through the nets.

Wewoka, who has beaten Seminole twice in other games this season, also held the edge on the backboards capturing 32 to Seminole’s 27.

A capacity crowd, filled with excitement, watched the two rivals battle. One Seminole fan was escorted out of the gymnasium by Highway Patrolmen after a referee ordered him out of the gym. -oOo Slants – Homer Swafford and Delbert Aldridge being especially helpful in a crisis… Randy Gilbert showing off his new car… Joe and Ruth Maritt writing from Pineville, Missouri that they’re enjoying their two grandsons, students at Oklahoma State Tech at Okmulgee and who spend most of the weekends with them and really “liven up the place”… Oklahoma University’s news release about Don Bowen, a Creek Indian minority OU graduate in Pharmacy from Seminole, now being a successful second-year medical student at Dartmouth, was in error… He really is a third-year medical student at Harvard.