From The Files of The Seminole Producer

WEWOKA- Approximately 60 artists from the tri-city area are expected to display paintings here Saturday and’ Sunday at the annual Starving Artists Art Show sponsored by the Wewoka Art Club.

Members of the Wewoka club and individual artists from Seminole and Holdenville will display their works on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church at Seventh and Mekusukey, a spokesman for the Wewoka Art Club said. Seven classes of paintings will be judged for prizes, with awards being given for first, second, third place and best of show. Oils, acrylics and charcoals are expected to draw the largest number of entries, the spokesman said.

There also is expected to be a large number of miniature paintings.

A number of the artists will be selling their paintings, the spokesman said, although not all paintings on exhibit will be for sale.

There will be no admission charge for the show, and the general public is encouraged to attend.

Art works will be on display Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., the club spokesman said. -oOo Bill Snell, civic leader and former Seminole assistant police chief, was elected Thursday night as chairman of the Seminole Citizens Advisory Committee.

Snell was elected by the committee to replace John DeLozier in the chairman’s post. DeLozier submitted his resignation from the committee Thursday night because he will take office in May as Ward 3 City Councilman.

Snell had been vice chairman of the advisory group, appointed by Mayor Melvin Moran and the city council late last year to advise the council on city financial matters.

Bonnie Lee Grisso, Seminole school principal, was elected vice chairman of the Advisory Committee during the group’s monthly meeting in the Seminole Public Library.

It will be up to Mayor Moran and the council to appoint a new member to the Advisory Committee to replace DeLozier.

The committee, continuing their study of city fiscal matters, recommended Thursday night that $100,000 from the two percent city sales tax be earmarked in the 1976-77 city budget for the street fund, Snell said today.

The panel is recommending priorities within the 30-month plan of capital improvements, adopted by the city council before Seminole voters approved the additional one cent sales tax for the city last September.

Snell said the advisory committee also will recommend that the city have all necessary paperwork done so that the city can take over funding for the Seminole Senior Citizens Center when federal funding expires later this year.

Snell said the committee also intends to recommend that a $35,000 in sales tax money be set aside for the parks and recreation department to match a $35,000 federal grant for park improvements.

“We still have some large decisions to make,” Snell said today, and added that the group will continue to meet monthly to make further recommendations regarding 30-month priorities.

He said the need for rest room and bleacher facilities in Seminole Municipal Park for the Bicentennial celebration July 3 and 4 may influence their recommendations. Park improvements are included in the 30-month plan of capital improvements the city council has adopted.

The Citizens Advisory Committee meets monthly on the Thursday night immediately preceding the monthly city council meeting.

Snell will appear at the council meeting Tuesday night to advise council members on the advisory committee’s deliberations. -oOo Seminole’s success story will soon be told in music, with announcement of an official “Seminole Song” to be made by Chamber of Commerce officials May 1.

A deadline for entries in the song competition was extended today until April 28, and chamber officials said today there are several good entries with more expected.

The Cultural Committee of the chamber of commerce, chaired by Frances Warrenburg, will make the final selection after reviewing all the entries.

Entries in the song contest must be original lyrics, set to either an original composition or an existing song. -oOo SALLISAW. Okla. (UPI) — Cable Television Channel 13 in this East Oklahoma city usually is for weather buffs. But Wednesday night — thanks to vandals - it was the channel to watch for folks who like to see women in the buff.

Normally, the camera scans a row of gauges indicating temperature, barometric pressure, wind velocity and direction, humidity, time and rainfall amounts and music from Station KRBB is sent out to accompany the picture.

Wednesday night the camera panned pictures of nude women, The music continued.

Vandals broke into the station about 8 p.m. and attached the pictures to the gauges and left. They caused no other damage. The pictures were televised for about 30 minutes. The situation was corrected shortly after KRBB announcer Don Neal was notified and quickly told his Channel 13 audience he was not responsible for the video portion of their television entertainment. -oOo Slants - Aquanita Cudjo laughing about a jammed adding machine … Mildred Post talking business … Pete and Thelma Barber eating out … Mrs. Joe Mills greeting a friend … Frank Seay shaking hands … Mike Reynolds walking home … Lissa Bush “treating” friends to dinner … Tim Tinsdale of Wewoka providing some needed information.

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