The Seminole Producer

The Pottawatomie County Cattlemen’s Association meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Maud Civic Center, it was announced today.

One of the topics of business for the meeting is the discussion of forming a posse of Maud ranchers to capture cattle thieves that have been plaguing the Maud area. Area ranchers at Maud have shown interest in the posse idea.

Along with this topic, a special program on wheat and pasture control will be presented, and other general business.

The meeting is a dinner meeting and an admission ticket of $1 is being charged for the meal.

Sheriff Billy Phillips of Pottawatomie County told The Producer that he plans to attend the meeting and talk with Maud ranchers about their posse idea.

In earlier stories in The Producer this week, Phillips stated that he was in favor of neighbors watching each other’s property, “but I don’t want a bunch of people running up and down the highway with guns.”

Maud ranchers held a public meeting in Maud Monday to discuss the posse idea, but did not take any official action on the issue. “We’re going to wait and talk with the sheriff about it before we organize completely,” a rancher said.

One rancher said that as many as 100 area ranchers around Maud will probably be formed into a posse, however, only 38 ranchers attended the Monday night meeting. -oOo The General Council of the Seminole Indian Nation has approved expenditure of some of its revenue sharing funds to construct a community building two miles south of Seminole, repots said today.

James G. Andrews, Arkansas City, Kans., chairman of the revenue sharing building committee for the Seminole Nation, said the group will received some $30,000 over the next five years.

Andrews said the council is allotting 80 percent of the revenue sharing funds for construction and 30 percent for recreational purposes.

Seminole Nation officials could not be reached this morning and further details on the planned community building were not available at press time. -oOo Slants – Frank Lane jogging in his garage on rainy days… Mrs. S. R. Creekmore is one of the City Councilmen’s wives who are entertaining Saturday to welcome two newcomers to Seminole. Mrs. Harry Wakefield and Mrs. Gerald Wilkins… Her name was inadvertently omitted in a hostess-naming story… Al Rollins catching a 3-anda- half-pound bass in a local pond… Bob and Sue Brown getting treated to an evening out... Mrs. Ray Richardson telling about a sale. -oOo WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) FBI agents have resumed the hunt for parachuting hijacker “D.B. Cooper” in this farm area where he disappeared 18 months ago, the Portland (Ore.) Journal said Monday.

The newspaper said several residents of the Woodland district had notified it that federal agents were again searching for the skyjacker.

Asked about the report, an FBI agent said the search might relate only to “a part of the continuing investigation in the ‘D.B.’ Cooper case.”

A man who signed the flight manifest as “Cooper” hijacked a Seattle-bound jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve of 1971 and obtained a $300,000 ransom. He parachuted from the back door of the 727 without leaving a trace. -oOo School Daze – Any eighth grad student who wishes to enter the Spelling Contest should see Miss Lamont’s office. ~ Future Teachers of America members are selling tickets to the Junior College Scholarship Bean Supper. It will be held Saturday, March 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. Adult tickets are $1.50 and children’s tickets are $1. ~ David Hall going to golf… John Huggler drawing pictures … Jerry Colclazier needing help… Annelt Davis being mad… David Stanfill getting into a fight… Jamie Capps having to redo his work… Dennis Auld making good… Jenny King being proud… Lisa Branscum needing help… Becky Bowling taking a test… Kent Smith talking in the hall… Chaz Evans asking questions… Janis Chappell getting back at someone… Melissa Seebeck helping someone study… Eddie Oliver making second place… Gina Franklin getting a haircut… Vickie Thompson coming to Seminole for the first time… Brad Schultz thinking he’s great… Phil Edwards missing the most. -oOo Seminole police were scratching their heads Monday night over a situation they discovered. A vehicle was found abandoned and straddling the railroad tracks on South Milt Phillips Ave. Needless to say, removal of the vehicle was the main item of business and then, could a charge be filed (illegal parking, impersonating a train, etc.)?

Well, anyway, later investigation revealed that the vehicle belonged to a Holdenville man, D. W. Snow but the mystery remained this morning on how the vehicle found its way onto the tracks. The top theory was that a driver was traveling south on Milt Philips Ave., missed the road and ran several yards down the tracks. At least the driver had the good fortune to straddle a secondary track instead of the main line.

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