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WednesdayAugust 29, 2012

No. 37 of the124th Year

Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420

In Brief

Area chocolate,wine fest slated

Almost two dozen state win-eries, amateur wine makers andchocolatiers have signed up forHennessey’s second annualWine & Chocolate Festival Sat.,Sept. 8. The outdoor event willbe on Main Street (U.S. 81) inMemorial Park from 5 p.m. to7:30 p.m. and includes a wineauction at 7 p.m.

A $10 per person admissionincludes a wine glass, and wristband for wine and chocolatetastings. For chocolate only,admission is $5. No charge forinfants or pre-school childrenin strollers.

Proceeds go to HennesseyUnited, a not-for-profit civicorganization.

Vendors must sign up inadvance to participate. No ven-dor fee will be charged and atable is provided.

Sign-up deadline for ven-dors is Thursday, Aug. 30:wine, Wes Hardin (405-853-0115) and chocolate, TeresaOliver (405-368-8741).

Auditions setfor next play

Kingfisher Creative is hold-ing auditions at 6:30 p.m. Fri-day and 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept.7 and 8, at the NBC communityroom, for its second commu-nity theater production.

Kingfisher High Schoolgraduate Tyler Mueggenborgwill direct the comedy NoisesOff, by Michael Frayn, to bepresented Jan. 18-20 at theKingfisher Heritage Schoolauditorium.

A play within a play, NoisesOff follows a doomed produc-tion of a play called NothingOn, and features a cast of fivemen and four women.

Cruse to speakat luncheon

F o r m e rLoyal resi-dent and in-spirationalspeaker JoyV i l h a u e rCruse isslated to bethe featuredspeaker for aw o m e n ’ s

Wood winscountyclerk race

Tour of DutyCyclists representingfiremen, policemen,emergency medicalpersonnel and militaryservicemen from theU.S. and Australiastopped in Kingfisherlast week on a crosscountry memorial rideto honor the 2,973victims of 9-11. Theriders are travelingfrom San Diego to NewYork City to raise fundsto support the Wound-ed Warrior Project andthe 911 Tribute Center.While in Oklahoma,the group stopped atthe Oklahoma Bomb-ing Memorial for aspecial tribute to thevictims of that attack.[KT-FP Staff Photo]

OFF AND RUNNING - The 2012 cross country season officially got under way last Saturday whenKingfisher’s high school and middle school teams took part in the Watonga meet. While the KHS boys andgirls and the KMS girls fared quite well, the KMS boys were dominant as they placed five runners in the top10 and literally ran away with the team title. Pictured at the start of the race are, from left,Hector Saucedo,Dakoda Hart, Jett Sternberger, Sam Walter, Cole Daugherty, Reece Lafferty and Haynes Lafferty. For moreinformation on the meet, see Page 8. [Photo by Kaitlin St. Cyr, KHS Photography]

Another round of rain-producingthunderstorms swept across portionsof Kingfisher County Saturdayevening, leaving welcome moistureranging from .2 inch to five inches.

The heavier rainfall occurred inmore easterly portions of the county.

Kingfisher received 1.68 inches,according to Local Weather ObserverSteve Loftis.

Other Kingfisher area reports in-cluded; Henry Senn, southwest ofKingfisher, reported .6 inch. MasonDairy, south of Kingfisher, measured.4 inch.

Other amounts reported across thecounty included:

Big 4 area – Edward Wilczek re-ported 1.75 inches; three inches re-ported at the Ernie Hellwege resi-dence, south of Big 4.

Crescent – Replogle residence,west of Crescent, five inches; Cres-

cent Coop, 2.2 inches with farmerreports of from two inches to fiveinches across the vicinity.

Cashion – John Johnson reportedthat Johnson farms received .8 inchon the north farm, west of Cashion, to1.5 inches on the south farm with oneinch between them.

Okarche – one-half inch at PlainsPartners Elevator in Okarche; .7 to .8inch was reported in the area aroundOkarche Grain and Feed eight mileswest of Okarche. Dan and BrendaSlater reported .6 inch at their homesoutheast of Okarche. Keith Schroderreceived .2 inch, southwest ofOkarche.

Hennessey – Plains Partner Eleva-tor Manager Paul Campbell reportedtwo inches in Hennessey. RayShimanek received 2.5 inches east ofHennessey.

Omega – Wheeler Brothers Eleva-

tor reported 1.3 inches. Max Gerberrecorded 1.1 inches south of S.H. 33

Dover – two inches recorded byDebbie Benson and Connie Phelanand 2.5 inches by Robin Johnston,northwest of Dover.

Loyal – J&M Oil reported 1.5inches.

Mike Rosen, manager of WheelerBrothers Elevator in Kingfisher re-ported the following precipitationamounts recorded at other WheelerBrothers Elevators:

Alva – 0.Canton – three inches.Cordell – one inch.Enid – .1 inchGreenfield – 1.25 inches.Seiling – .2 inchTaloga – .5 inch.Thomas – 1.3 inches.Watonga – .6 inch in town and 1.6

inches at feed yard east of Watonga.

Kingfisher County AgriculturalAgent Keith Boevers said the rainwas beneficial, helping pastures andboosting prospects for another cut-ting of hay.

Summer crops, including soy-beans, suffered loss of plants due todrought conditions but Boeversspeculated farmers may do some spotcombining due to the high price forsoybeans. Primary soybean produc-ing areas of the nation have beenhard hit by drought and high tem-peratures this summer, resulting inpredictions for a short harvest whileworld demand remains high.

Irrigated fields west of Hennesseyprovide the best hope of substantialyields.

Tropical storm Isaac heading intothe inland from the Gulf of Mexicooffers hope for another round of rainlate in the week.

Storms bring up to 5 inches of welcome rain

County holdsbrief meeting

Kingfisher County commis-sioners Monday made shortwork of a one-item agenda,approving a resolution autho-rizing County Clerk TeresaWood to dispose of two piecesof outmoded computer equip-ment.

The bookkeeping procedureis required by auditors to getthe junked equipment offcounty property lists.

Commissioners also ap-proved the consent agenda,which includes the minutesfrom the previous week’s meet-ings and warrants and pur-chase orders necessary for thecounty offices to conduct rou-tine business.

Commissioners will meet at9:30 a.m. Tuesday next weekbecause the courthouse will beclosed on Monday, their nor-mal meeting day, for the LaborDay holiday.

[See Cruse 1]

luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Satur-day, Sept. 15, at KingfisherChurch of the Nazarene.

Cruse now lives in Frisco,Texas with her husband Taitand their three children,Mackenzie, Carson, and Ma-son.

Cruse is the author of HopeTransformed: A Battle Strategyfor Surviving Life’s Greatest Tri-als, a devotional she wrote af-ter the death of her 9-year-oldson Connor, following a five-

Joy Cruse

Kingfisher $214,925.50 3% $244,095.35 3% -11.9%Hennessey 85,834.21 3.5% 74,059.11 3.5% +15.8%Cashion 11,486.00 4% 15,139.86 4% -24.1%Dover 10,197.53 4% 9,680.76 4% +5.3%Loyal 592.93 2% 497.87 2% +19.1%Okarche 159,088.86 4.5% 61,111.74 4.5% +160.3%Calumet 224,355.84 4% 44,847.05 4% +400.3%Crescent 41,835.99 3% 28,525.16 3% +46.7%El Reno 766,428.29 4% 774,334.13 4% -1.0%Enid 2,538,450.78 3.5% 2,191,233.35 3.5 +15.8%Geary 55,852.04 3% 38,241.22 3% +45.1%Greenfield 646.75 3% 5,208.38 3% -875.83%Guthrie 361,614.24 3% 331,039.49 3% +9.2%Hitchcock 812.00 3% 744.05 3% +9.1%Marshall 3,704.68 4% 4,387.69 4% -15.6%Okeene 38,883.96 4.25% 33,858.96 4.25% +14.8%Okla. City 33,729,784.99 3.875% 32,209,481.18 3.875% +4.7%Piedmont 134,536.69 5% 136,700.64 5% -1.6%Seiling 53,521.74 4% 49,633.25 4% +9.2%Watonga 169,828.48 5% 166,913.39 5% +1.7%Weatherford 718,116.39 4% 644,797.04 4% +11.4%Woodward 1,077,209.58 3.5% 1,012,498.84 3.5% +6.4%Kingfisher Co.153,309.25 .75% 173,996.33 1% +10.1%

Municipality AUGUST 2012 RATE AUGUST 2011 RATE ` CHANGE

(PER 1¢)

Hennessey, Dover, Loyal andOkarche saw increases in the size oftheir sales tax checks in August.

The August checks mostly rep-resented municipal sales tax col-lected by businesses in June andremitted to the Oklahoma Tax Com-mission in July, before being re-turned to municipalities in August.

Kingfisher County received asmaller check than last year, but thecollection this year was based on athree-quarter cent tax compared toa one-cent tax a year earlier.

However, companies that remitmore than $2,500 monthly in salestax receipts are required to file andpay electronically. The monies theyreported for the period representtax collected on actual sales andestimated sales from July 1-15.

The statewide disbursement of$128,606,231 to 509 cities and townsamounted to an increase of$7,551,761 from the $121,054,470returned to 509 municipalities inAugust 2011.

A use tax disbursement of$10,756,041 was distributed be-tween 373 cities and towns.

Use tax is collected at the samerate as a municipality’s sales tax onpurchases made out of town for de-livery within an entity.

In county returns, 77 countiesshared in a $27,452,409 sales taxdisbursement.

Kingfisher’s check while smallerthan last year’s follows an all timerecord high check in July.

The tax commission discouragesuse of the tax checks to indicate acommunity’s economic health. Thechecks can vary for a number ofreasons, including penalties, differ-ent accounting cutoff dates and one-time sales.

Use tax checks for county enti-ties in August follow with the Au-gust 2012 amount listed first:

Cashion – $1,087.78 and $574.10.Dover – $688.97 and $331.74.Hennessey – $1,579.56 and

$2,435.79.Kingfisher – $46,906.19 and

$28,670.67.Okarche – $4,470.19 and

$2,726.67.Kingfisher County – $62,547.11

and $15,347.41

August sales tax receipts up in county towns

Teresa Wood

Teresa Wood ofHennessey re-tained the office ofKingfisher CountyCourt Clerk afterTuesday’s Repub-lican primary run-off election.

Wood garnered735 (62.1 percent)of the votes cast,while 449 (37.9 percent )went to chal-lenger Jeanne Boevers of Kingfisher.

Voting by precinct follows, withthe precinct totals for Wood listedfirst: 101 – 108, 129; 102 – 34, 22; 103 –30, 43; 105 – 15, 17; 106 – 11, 0; 201 –271, 12; 203 – 43, 3; 204 – 54-20; 301 – 88,110; 302 – 28, 35; 303 – 19, 7; 304 – 6, 35;305 – 27, 16; 306 – 1, 0.

Wood will be sworn in to office inJanuary.

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Philip and Rosie Endres ofHaysville, Kan., will celebratetheir 60th wedding anniver-sary on Thursday, Sept. 6, witha card shower.

Philip Endres and RosaliaSchulte were married on Sept.6, 1952, at St. Peter the ApostleCatholic Church in Schulte,Kan.

Philip is retired fromAlbertson and Hein Inc., andRosie is retired from HerndonBettis Schwartz Kissling andSimon Optometrists in

Wichita, Kan.They have five children,

Frank Endres and wife Lea ofSouth Haven, Kan., JaneHackler and husband Terryand Steve Endres and wifeFreda, all of Cheney, Kan., DanEndres of Haysville, and SusieCheshier and husband Geraldof Wichita, and numerousgrandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Cards may be sent to 7120S. Ida, Haysville, KS 67060.

Endreses to celebrate 60thMr. and Mrs. Philip Endres

•Anniversary

Kayla Rapp and RickKrittenbrink, both of Okla-homa City, announce their en-gagement and approachingmarriage.

The wedding has been setfor Saturday, Oct. 13, at theOklahoma City Farmer’s Mar-ket.

Parents of the couple areL.D. and Carolyn Rapp of Enidand Steve and Jan Krittenbrinkof Okarche.

Grandparents of the brideare Louise Rapp of Enid,Jennie Fischer of Jet and thelate Dale Rapp and S.C.Fischer. Grandparents of thebridegroom are IreneKrittenbrink, Bud and MarySchwarz, all of Okarche, andthe late Bernard Krittenbrink.

The bride-elect is a 2004graduate of Wakita HighSchool. She graduated fromOklahoma State University in2008, with a bachelor’s degreein apparel merchandising anda master’s degree in businessadministration from the Uni-versity of Central Oklahomain 2012. She is currently em-ployed as a human resourcesmanager at Target.

The prospective bride-groom is a 2000 graduate ofOkarche High School. Hegraduated from OklahomaState University in 2005, witha bachelor’s degree in me-chanical engineering technol-ogy. He is currently employedas an applications engineer atCIRCOR Energy.

Rapp-KrittenbrinkKayla Rapp and Rick Krittenbrink

•Engagement

Kynsli ElizabethMoyeda

New arrivalSaul Jr. and Nancy Moyeda

of Kingfisher announce thebirth of their daughter, KynsliElizabeth, at 11:27 p.m. Thurs-day, June 14, 2012, at LakesideWomen’s Hospital in Okla-homa City.

She weighed 7 pounds, 8ounces and was 20 1/2 incheslong.

Maternal grandparents areAgustin and Rita Rodriguezand maternal great-grand-mother is Isidra Rodriguez,all of Kingfisher.

Paternal grandparents areSaul and Maria TeresaMoyeda and paternal great-grandmothers are MariaPuente and AntoniaFernandez, all of Kingfisher.

She has two sisters, LyndsiNicole, 5, and Alexis Michelle,2.

The Plainview HCE heldits monthly meeting at 1:30p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, at thehome of Alice Mapel.

Linda Tucker called themeeting to order. The grouprecited the pledges to theUnited States and Oklahomaflags.

The minutes were read andapproved and the treasuryreport stayed the same.

The group decided to do-nate money to the departmentof human services for schoolsupplies.

Mapel gave the lesson en-titled “Exercise and PhysicalActivity.”

The meeting adjourned at3:30 p.m.

The next meeting will be at1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, atthe home of Diane Musick.

The lesson will be “SevenPrinciples of Healthy Hous-ing and Internet Safety.”

Alice Mapel hostsHCE meeting

August is National Immu-nization Awareness Month.Oklahoma Foundation forMedical Quality (OFMQ)wants to remind readers thatgetting immunizations is animportant way to keep yourcommunity and loved onessafe.

We may forget about therisk of some diseases and theirvaccinations, but this is a greatmonth to get up-to-date on allvaccinations.

Shots can prevent infec-tious diseases like measles,diphtheria, rubella, pertussis,

OFMQ touts immunizationsflu and pneumonia. It’s im-portant to know which shotsyou need and when to getthem.

Among vaccine-prevent-able diseases, whoopingcough is one of the most com-mon in the United States. Pro-tection from childhood shotsdecreases over time, so every-one needs a booster.

Talk to your doctor or localhealth department to find outwhat’s best for you, and re-member Medicare covers in-fluenza, pneumococcal andHepatitis B shots.

The Republican party haslargely been taken over bypowerful corporate Tea Partyextremists, bent on power overpeople. Big business has notchosen to tame this takeoverelement.

For decades, Republicanshave largely ignored workers’rights to organize and sup-port a fair wage and safe work-ing conditions. There werestates that passed, a misno-mer, Right to Work law thatweakened workers rights.Making workers dues for newmembers oppositional.

Now, we have had unduecorporate backed influence onRepublican members of Con-gress to sign pledges not toraise taxes. Even though pastRepublican presidents havedone this so many times.

In 1776 The Declaration ofIndependence, states in itsPreamble, that Congresswould not pass any law thatwould be a stumbling block toour right to life, liberty andthe pursuit of happiness. Yet,we have seen the RepublicanTea Party, a controlled Houseof Representatives; blockmany necessary job creatingbills needed by PresidentObama, to pull us out of theworst recession since the1930’s Great Depression.

Voter suppression laws, inseveral states have beenpushed by Republicans, mak-ing it more difficult for theminority, elderly, studentsand poor to vote. That willaffect many democratic vot-ers.

We must stand up for our

democracy. As our forefatherswarned us, “ a democracy ifwe can keep it?” (sic)

Sincerely,/s/Velma Reed

Kingfisher

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Officers and committeemembers of the KingfisherCounty Retired EducatorsAssociation (KCREA) met re-cently to plan the programsfor the group’s upcomingmeetings.

All retired educators andschool support personnel re-siding in Kingfisher Countyor retired from KingfisherCounty schools are welcomeand encouraged to “join” theassociation.

The purpose of the associa-tion is to promote the inter-

Retired County Educatorsmeet to plan monthly meetings

ATTENDING THE Kingfisher County Retired Educators Association meeting were,from left, Jneanne Kadavy, Chuck Henderson, Donna Jech, Florene Tipton, CathyHoward, and Anna Mae Stolz [Photo Provided]

ests and welfare of retirededucators, to maintain retirededucators’ identity with theeducation profession, to en-hance the image of retirededucators, and to participatein educational and commu-nity activities.

The next meeting will beheld on Wednesday, Sept. 5,at Coffee Corner in Kingfisher.

State Sen. A.J. Griffin willbe the featured speaker. Formore information about join-ing the group, contact CathyHoward at 853-6212.

By Blair KloeppelFFA reporter

The Kingfisher FFA at-tended Big Three Field Dayson July 17-19 in Stillwater atthe OSU Animal ScienceArena.

Results from the sheep fieldday include: Maegan Yost,sixth place; fourth place Jun-ior 4-H team, members includ-ing: Madelyn Gerken, GrantEaton, Peyton Burns, andElizabeth Perdue and thirdplace Junior FFA team includ-ing, Jason Murray, MaeganYost, Emmaly Helt, and MicahMueggenborg.

The results from the beeffield days include: MaeganYost, fourth place; Byron Helt,

fourth place; JasonMurray,10th place; KaitlinPritchett, fourth place, JuniorFFA team including JasonMurray, Maegan Yost,Emmaly Helt and MicahMueggenborg, first place, andSenior FFA team includingKaitlin Pritchett, BlakeCameron, Matthew Walta,and Gatlin Squires.

The swine day results in-clude: Jason Murray, eighthplace; Gatlin Squires, fifthplace; Junior FFA team includ-ing Jason Murray, MaeganYost, Emmaly Helt and MicahMueggenborg, fourth place,and Senior FFA team KaitlinPritchett, Blake Cameron,

Kingfisher FFA membersattend Big Three Field Days

Matthew Walta, and GatlinSquires.

The overall results of fieldday included: Maegan Yost,fourth place; Jason Murray,eighth place; Emmaly Helt,ninth place, Kaitlin Pritchett,eighth place, Byron Helt, sev-enth place; second place Jun-ior FFA team, Jason Murray,Maegan Yost, Emmaly Helt,and Micah Mueggenborg, andsecond place Senior FFA teamincluding, Kaitlin Pritchett,Blake Cameron, MatthewWalta, and Gatlin Squires.Also participating were JentrySquires, Victoria Gerken,Conner McNair, BradenBurns, and Garrett States.

ATTEND COMPETITION – Kingfisher FFA members attending the Big Three FieldDays in Stillwater recently included: front row, from left, Tori Gerken, Garrett States,Jentry Squires, Conner McNair, Micah Mueggenborg, Peyton Burns and Braden Burns;and, back row, Blake Cameron, Gatlin Squires, Emmaly Helt, Madelyn Gerken, GrantEaton, Byron Helt, Maegan Yost, Kaitlin Pritchett and Matthew Walta. [Photo Provided]

Lomega schedule toldLomega schools’ officials

have announced the schedulefor the remainder of the weekof Aug. 27, as follows:

Wednesday – KingfisherCounty Board of Health, noon;yearbook, selling yearbookads, Wednesday and Thurs-day.

Thursday – Seniors,Jostens; FCA meeting, noon.

Friday – Picture day; RaiderRound-up; Lomega local fair.

Saturday – Cross Countryat Watonga; Lomega localstock show, Loyal bus barn, 8a.m..

DOVER LONGHORNS ofthe Week for the week ofAug. 20 include: front row,from left, Pedro Valles, sec-ond grade; Adan Valdez,first grade; Kyndl Lingle,pre-k, and Marco Renteria,kindergarten; and, backrow, Edi Lopez, sixth grade;Yazaret Gamez, fifth grade;Kasen Harviston, fourthgrade, and StephanieSigala, third grade. [PhotoProvided]

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Michelle Malkin

‘Clean Energy’ isObama-speak forcrony government

Breaking news: TheFishwrap of Record has fi-nally discovered that theObama administration givesits Chicago corporate palsspecial access to power andregulatory favoritism. OnThursday, The Not-So-NewYork Times published an A1story titled “Ties to ObamaAided in Access for Big Util-ity.”

Everyone, put on yourshocked faces!

“With energy an increas-ingly pivotal issue for theObama White House,” theTimes intoned, “a review ofExelon’s relationship with theadministration shows howfamiliarity has helped fosteraccess at the upper reaches ofgovernment and how, in somecases, the outcome has beenfavorable for Exelon.”

You mean Hope andChange was all smoke andmirrors? Well, knock me overwith a feather and call meGrandpa Daley!

White House press flackJay Carney played dumbwhen asked about the report,which detailed “an unusuallylarge number of meetingswith top administration offi-cials at key moments in theconsideration of environmen-tal regulations that have beendrafted in a way that hurtExelon’s competitors.”

“I’m not sure what the is-sue is, frankly,” Carney toldthe Beltway press corps.Carney, a former Time maga-zine journalist who pointedlyreminded his former mediacolleagues that he “was a re-porter,” apparently forgot allthe connect-the-dots traininghe got at his once-hallowedpublication.

The issue, dear Carney, isfavor-trading and access-ped-dling. Government for thecronies, by the cronies and ofthe cronies. The Times spelledit out: “I would like to getsome treatment in Washing-ton like that,” Ken Anderson,general manager at Tri-StateG and T, a Colorado-basedpower supplier that has beenat odds with Exelon over en-vironmental regulations, toldthe paper. “But Exelon seemsto get deference that I can’tget.”

As I noted back in Januaryin my column on Obama’sgreen robber barons, myscouring of White House visi-tor logs showed nine visitsfrom Illinois-based Exelon’sCEO John Rowe, who metwith the president and formerChief of Staff Rahm Emanuelmultiple times. The clean en-ergy company’s deep ties hadalready been illuminated byseveral other business publi-cations, including Forbes andCrain’s.

Frank M. Clark, the vet-eran lobbyist who runsExelon’s CommonwealthEdison, the largest electricutility in Illinois, is a topObama adviser andfundraiser dating back to theformer communityorganizer’s Illinois State Sen-ate days. Longtime Obamacampaign guru DavidAxelrod worked as a consult-ant to Exelon. And ChicagoMayor Rahm Emanuel helpedcreate Exelon — where heraked in more than $16 mil-lion over two years.

Carney’s boss once madeit a central hobbyhorse of hispresidential campaign. Whenhe announced his presiden-tial intentions in 2007, candi-date Obama decried “the cyn-ics, the lobbyists, the specialinterests who’ve turned ourgovernment into a game onlythey can afford to play.” Heindignantly singled out “thebest bundlers” who get the“greatest access” to power.ComEd’s Clark bundled atleast $200,000 for Obama in2008 and at least $100,000 forthe 2012 cycle, and forkedover nearly $30,000 more tocommittees supportingObama. Earlier this year,

[See Malkin, Page 5]

By Walter E. WilliamsIf you listen to America’s

political hacks, mainstreammedia talking heads and theirsocialist allies, you can’t helpbut reach the conclusion thatthe nation’s tax burden isborne by the poor andmiddleclass while the rich getoff scot-free.

Stephen Moore, senior eco-nomics writer for The WallStreet Journal, and I’m proudto say former GMU econom-ics student, wrote “The U.S.Tax System: Who ReallyPays?” in the ManhattanInstitute’s Issue 2012 (8/12).Let’s see whether the rich arepaying their “fair” share.

According to IRS 2007 data,the richest 1 percent of Ameri-cans earned 22 percent of na-tional personal income butpaid 40 percent of all personalincome taxes. The top 5 per-cent earned 37 percent andpaid 61 percent of personalincome tax. The top 10 per-cent earned 48 percent andpaid 71 percent of all personalincome taxes. The bottom 50percent earned 12 percent ofpersonal income but paid just3 percent of income tax rev-enues.

Some argue that these ob-servations are misleading be-cause there are other federaltaxes the bottom 50 percenterspay such as Social Securityand excise taxes. Moore pre-sents data from the Tax PolicyCenter, run by the liberal Ur-ban Institute and theBrookings Institution, thattakes into account payroll andincome taxes paid by differ-ent income groups. Becauseof the earned income taxcredit, most of America’s poorpay little or nothing. What the

Tax Policy Center calls work-ing class pay 3 percent of allfederal taxes, middle class 11percent, upper middle class19 percent and wealthy 67percent.

President Obama and theDemocratic Party harp abouttax fairness. Here’s my fair-ness question to you: Whatstandard of fairness dictatesthat the top 10 percent of in-come earners pay 71 percentof the federal income tax bur-den while 47 percent of Ameri-cans pay absolutely nothing?

President Obama and hispolitical allies are fully awareof IRS data that shows whopays what. Their tax dema-goguery knowingly exploitsAmerican ignorance abouttaxes. A complicit news me-dia is only happy to assist. Wemight ask ourselves what’s tobe said about the decency ofpeople who knowingly mis-lead the public about taxes. Ofcourse, I might be all wrong,and true tax fairness dictatesthat the top 10 percent pay allfederal income taxes.

Aside from the fairness is-sue, 47 percent of taxpayershaving no federal income taxliability is dangerous for ournation. These people becomenatural constituents for big-spending, budget-wrecking,debt-creating politicians. Af-ter all, if you have no incometax liability, what do you careabout either raising or lower-ing taxes? That might explainwhy the so-called Bush taxcuts were not more popular. Ifyou’re not paying incometaxes, why should you behappy about an income taxcut? Instead, you might viewtax cuts as a threat to varioushandout programs that nearly

50 percent of Americans en-joy.

Tax demagoguery is use-ful for politicians who prey onthe politics of envy to get re-elected, but is it good forAmericans? We’re witnessing

the disastrouseffects of mas-sive spendingin Greece,Italy, Ireland,Portugal andother Euro-pean countrieswhere agreater num-ber of peoplelive off of gov-ernment wel-

fare programs than pay taxes.Government debt in Greece is160 percent of gross domesticproduct, 120 percent in Italy,104 in Ireland and 106 in Por-tugal.

Here’s the question for us:Is the U.S. moving toward oraway from the troubled EUnations? It turns out that ournational debt to GDP ratio inthe 1970s was 35 percent; nowit’s 106 percent of GDP. If youthink we’re immune from theeconomic chaos in some of theEU countries, you’re whistlingDixie. And when economicchaos comes, whom do youthink will be more affected byit: rich people or poor people?

Walter E. Williams is a pro-fessor of economics at GeorgeMason University. To find outmore about Walter E. Williamsand read features by other Cre-ators Syndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the Creators Syn-dicate Web page atwww.creators.com.

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The rich don’t pay enough?

By Ted BuswellYou must remember, my fel-

low citizens, that eternal vigi-lance by the people is the price ofliberty, and that you must paythe price if you wish to secure theblessing. – Andrew Jackson

The relationship betweenpersonal individual participa-tion and attention to govern-mental affairs and individualliberty and justice was notoriginated with Jackson, norhas its importance diminishedto this day. As we approachthe elections here in Novem-ber, our attention is naturallydeflected mainly to the elec-tion of the president for thenext four years. The impor-tance of selecting the best ofwhat we have to choose fromin that contest is obvious. Theperformance in that office byrecent leaders has brought thecountry to levels of politicaland economic lows beyondcompare. And although it’sconvenient for advocates ofeither major political partynow to point the finger ofblame for conditions at theperformance of the oppositeparty, neither of which canescape legitimate credit for asignificant share of the prob-lems at hand.

Neither can we put the to-tal blame for current condi-tions and events at the feet ofthe federal government. Vir-tually every state and countyand city has played a role ingetting us to where we aretoday. The people in controlof operations of our govern-ments at every level wereplaced there by free elections.Their tenure in office is like-wise awarded by the votingpublic. Hopefully such meth-ods will continue. But weshould maintain communica-tions one way and another to

appraise their performanceand let them know what wethink about things and why.Most of us fail to maintainsuch levels of participationafter the polls are closed andour votes are counted. Weusually just complain at thecoffee shop or at other socialgatherings when our repre-sentatives’ actions offend us.How can they know ourwants, needs and expectationsif we don’t communicate?

Recently we are hearing alot of local discussion about“trash and garbage” and thecollection and disposalthereof. Virtually every livingsoul in town participates insuch services whether theythink about it or not. Perhapsone reason there has not beena lot of discussion about localservices in the area is thatKingfisher enjoys the bestquality of such services in thestate. And it should be notedthat the charges for such ser-vice are extremely low con-sidering that we have alleyservice where alleys still existas well as curb service and weget it twice a week. Accordingto comments by the City Man-ager in Sunday’s local papercontracted services under con-sideration would be reducedto once a week and all pickupswould be curb side. Obviouslyfuture prices of the servicewould be based on thecontractor’s assurance ofprofit and therefore variableover time. Most comments bylocal folks indicate a willing-ness to pay increased rate ifneeded to continue city ser-vice as it is.

The city manager says thatif the service is contracted out,the current city employeeswould be assigned to otherduties and would not lose their

jobs. Such action would obvi-ously increase expenses inwhatever department theywere transferred to, wouldn’tit? Wasn’t the high cost of la-bor and equipment and equip-ment maintenance the reasonfor consideration of contract-ing the service out? The em-ployees presently doing thejob also do work in the streetdepartment now. The city, likeany other enterprise shouldcertainly be ever mindful ofthe cost involved in whateverservices they provide. And ifa particular service is unnec-essary it should be disallowed.But current laws enacted bygrowing government over theyears have complicated muchof what folks can and can’t do.Private property rights havebeen altered and negated bycity, state and nationalbranches complicating whatwe can and cannot do on andabout our private properties.And we’ve become a “throwaway” society generatinghuge amounts of trash in theprocess. Perhaps we must dosomething soon, but qualityand cost should get thoroughconsideration in the process.

The city manager has in-vited anybody with concernsabout the local trash and gar-bage dilemma to contact himand their local commission-ers. The general opinions be-ing expressed around townseem to be that “it’s a donedeal” and it will be in effect byNovember. Too bad we don’thave local polls about this likethey have regarding theObama – Romney deal so wemight know the odds for bet-ting on it.

Maybe we need to heed theadvice of Henry Ford whenhe said, “Don’t find fault. Finda remedy.”

Trash and garbage still call for our attention and opinions

President Obama’s campaign officials are attempting tomake a racial issue of voter identification for the generalelection.

We had to show identification to vote in Tuesday’s primaryand we know the election officials and they know us. We aregood with that.

Why should anyone object to anything so fair?The answer seems obvious. There are plans afoot to cheat.Virginia provided a preview of what might be coming when

200,000 applications for registration were mailed across thecommonwealth, including to people who were already regis-tered, as well as deceased people some dogs and cats.

The problem was blamed on a nonprofit group called TheVoter Participation Center in Washington, D.C.

The Romney campaign asked Va. Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinellito investigate.

The conflict continues with persons writing in favor sayingthat if the individuals filling out one of the applications an-swers all the questions with required information, the ballotshould be accepted as a legitimate vote.

Wikipedia, the so-called Internet encyclopedia, tosses inthis comment:

“It is probably best that Virginia officials not get too sancti-monious about voter registration drives when their own con-stitution still contains the vestiges of an illegal literacy test.

Was that a race card just dumped into the conversation?Undoubtedly.Does the complaint mean liberals think black people are too

stupid to vote? We don’t.But if Romney’s campaign hadn’t questioned the action,

might it have not opened the floodgates for scores of othersimilar “mailings.”

Personally, we don’t want a doggie or kitty vote wiping outour own.

Richard Reynolds. An election official at Piedmont hadsome things to say about voting last week.

Calling himself an “ex-nonvoter,” he wrote the following:

By Richard ReynoldsI can no longer stand idly by and let someone rant and rave

about some decision that a local official has made and howincompetent that official is without jumping on my soapboxand start lecturing that person about how they have no rightto complain if they chose not to vote when that person wasvoted into office – and I know they didn’t. This lecturing is agreat way to lose friends, but it is something everyone shouldbe reminded. We are as strong as the people we elect.

We have recently held elections in Piedmont for city coun-cilman, school board officials, county commissioners, countysheriff, county clerk, state corporation commissioner and onand on, selecting people to represent us in local, county andstate government affairs. After the elections, the headlines areusually something like: “the voters spoke” or “the messagewas clear.” Even though the outcome of the election may bejust, the problem is the mass is letting a few make theirdecisions.

We have consistently had a voter turnout of around eightand sometimes 10 percent of the registered voters. The mostconsistent answers I hear when I ask someone why they didn’tvote: “I only vote in the big elections like for senators,, gover-nor and president” or “I didn’t know anything about thecandidates or the issues we were voting on.” The one answerthat disturbs me most is “I didn’t have time to study thecandidates.” All three answers send chills up my back. Myfavorite question to ask to big-election-only voter is: “I thinkbeing involved in choosing national leaders is great and veryimportant, but when has Obama, Fallin, Inhofe, or Coburnever fixed a pothole in your street, voted to give a tax incentiveto a local business, initiated a new tax or bond for a school orjail? When did the president of the U.S. have a say in hiring aschool superintendent, a city police chief, a city manager?Have they been involved in setting the size and leadership ofyour police and fire departments or do they worry about yourutility rates, your property tax, or your city sales tax? Theanswer is obvious; it is the local person we elect to spend ourmoney wisely, keep us safe, and make our living conditionsbetter, not the people in Washington.

You cannot believe the questions we are routinely asked bysome of the people who do take the time and effort to vote inthe local elections. Like: “I was driving by and saw the VoteToday sign. What are we voting on today?”; “Which candi-date is the incumbent?”; Can you explain the questions we arevoting on?”; or “Can you tell me anything about these candi-dates?” By law we can’t answer these questions but it makesme wonder. Yes, it is great that these people vote but some-times it’s scary when you thing they are part of the eightpercent that vote and how their vote could affect an electionoutcome.

Voter ID racialarguments weak

Excuses for not voting

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To: Americans every-where;

I work very hard at re-searching to be sure that whatI write or recommend is docu-mented fact, and verifiable.We all love this country, re-gardless of political party af-filiation or no party affiliation.With that said, I urge, beg,plead, encourage, hope, andpray that every American citi-zen, including your children,will go and view a documen-tary film being released in the-aters across America now. Thetitle is, Obama’s America 2016.

Love him/Hate Him – Youdon’t know him. It is breakingrecords in heavily dominatedliberal Democratic cities aswell as Conservative Repub-lican cities.

Why do I so strongly rec-ommend it? Surprisingly, thisfilm does not trash Obama. Itis based on the documentedfacts from several years of re-search of Dinesh D’Souza,president of the King’s Col-lege in New York City.

D’Souza presents a fact-based, unemotional documen-tary of who Obama is, wherehe came from, what he standsfor and where he will take thiscountry if re-elected. You willfind the film impossible to dis-pute. There are no “birther”theories in this film. To all whoare for Obama, so be it, that isyour American right. If youare still for him after the filmyou will at least know himand know what’s coming by2016 if re-elected.

To all who are againstObama, so be it, that is yourAmerican right. You probablywill still be after the film. Nomatter which category youchoose to be in, you owe it toyourself, no one else, to“know” who this man, BarackObama, is and his intentions.

If you don’t see this docu-mentary you will not know,before you vote, what thispresident’s agenda really is.We all can agree that the me-dia failed in 2008, and eventoday, to vet this man whowas plucked from obscurityand was elected to the mostpowerful position in theworld. This documentary cor-rects that failure. As ScottPaulson, a liberal, and a writerfor the ultra liberal CBS affili-ate in Los Angeles, states afterviewing the film, “If youhaven’t seen the film, saveyour remarks until you have.otherwise your protestationsand accusations may just lookfoolish in retrospect.”

The theaters showing itnearest you may be found onyour favorite search engine.Type in, Obama’s America2016 and you can find the list-ings and dates to be shown.Please do yourself and thegenerations to follow a favorand view this film. Everythingyou will see and hear is docu-mented fact. You may do withit as you wish.

Forward to all you can,please.

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Obama acknowledged raisingat least $74 million throughhis team of big-time bundlerswho have been showeredwith access, tax dollars andplum patronage positions.

It’s taken four years for themedia lapdoggies to call outthe Naked Emperor of Chi-cago-on-the-Potomac. Betterlate than never, ya think? Ihear the crackerjack report-ers at ye Olde York Times maybe planning a special in-depthinvestigative series on thepresident’s dirty D.C. busi-ness-as-usual administrationslated to run sometime afterElection Day. They could callit “Culture of Corruption:Obama’s Team of Tax Cheats,Crooks and Cronies.” Oh,wait...

Michelle Malkin is the au-thor of “Culture of Corruption:Obama and his Team of TaxCheats, Crooks and Cronies”(Regnery 2010). Her e-mail ad-dress is [email protected].

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By John HaywardHuman Events

President Obama has takento calling rival Mitt Romney’stax reform plans “Robin Hoodin reverse” and “RomneyHood” at his endless big-bucks re-election fundraisers.(Remember, Obama nevertakes questions from the pressany more. He most recentlybrought up the “RomneyHood” line at the Connecti-cut fundraiser that shut downpublic beaches to enable thePresident to raise money fromHollywood millionaires.)Obama claims Romney wantsto “ask the middle class topay more taxes so that hecould give another $250,000tax cut to people making morethan $3 million a year.”

The president cites awidely discredited reportfrom the Tax Policy Centerwhen he makes these claims.Technically the Tax PolicyCenter is “non-partisan,” butthey’re actually a class-war-fare group whose entire mis-sion is opposing tax cuts. Their“report” literally inventsthings about Romney’s plans,after expressly conceding thatthey don’t actually haveenough information to evalu-ate it.

As the editors of the WallStreet Journal explained, afternoting that Romney’s pro-posal actually includes a 20percent rate reduction for ev-eryone who pays taxes, com-bined with the elimination ofunspecified tax deductionsthat would primarily affecthigher tax brackets:

The class warriors at the TaxPolicy Center add all of this upand issue the headline-grabbingopinion that it is “mathemati-cally impossible” to reduce taxrates and close loopholes in away that raises the same amountof revenue. They do so in part byarbitrarily claiming that Mr.Romney would never eliminatecertain loopholes (such as for

municipal bond interest), thoughthe candidate has said no suchthing.

Based on this invention, theythen postulate that Mr. Romneywould have to do something healso doesn’t propose– which israise taxes on those earning lessthan $200,000. In the Obamacampaign’s political alchemy,this becomes “Romney Hood”and a $2,000 tax increase.

It’s all very silly, but so isthe argument that has effec-tively been used to keepmiddle-class tax serfs on theBig Government plantationfor decades: You don’t want atax cut if someone who makesmore money than you would ben-efit from it as well.

People really do fall for stu-pid stuff like that. No burdenplaced upon their back by so-cialists is too great, as long asthey think some faceless richguy will be given an evengreater burden to carry.Thanks to Obama’s long yearsof devastating unemploy-ment, more people are realiz-ing that those “even greaterburdens” are being droppedon those who otherwisewould invest their money andcreate jobs.

The Journal goes on to notethat tax receipts invariably risewhen rates are lowered,within the range described bythe Laffer Curve; that Rom-ney is making essentially thesame assumptions about GDPgrowth that Obama does, witha much greater chance of ac-tually achieving 4 percentgrowth; and that Romney’srecommended tax rates trackclosely with the recommen-dations of the blue-ribbonSimpson-Bowles deficit com-mission that Obama made agreat show of convening, andthen resolutely ignored. Infact, Romney’s plan is a modi-fication of Simpson-Bowlesexpressly designed to avoidmiddle class tax increases.

This is all par for the coursefor a president that would sitidly by while his surrogatesfabricate a disgusting ad ac-cusing Romney of murder.The other interesting thingsabout Obama’s “RomneyHood” mythology is how cul-turally illiterate it is, and howit fits into his “you didn’t buildthat” collectivist theories.

Obama is hardly the firstsocialist to misrepresent theRobin Hood legend – in whichthe famed bandit of SherwoodForest was stealing from thegovernment, not wealthy pri-vate citizens. The money herecovered for the poor wasliterally taken from them, bytax collectors. Robin Hoodwas not a thug who pillagedprosperous, honest trades-men of their hard-earned coin.

The system Robin Hoodopposed bore little resem-blance to modern free-mar-ket capitalism, because theupper echelons of the wealthywere, almost inevitably, alsomembers of the feudal gov-ernment. Actually, that bearsmore resemblance to Obama-style “crony capitalism” thanactual capitalism. If RobinHood were around today,he’d be robbing from GeneralMotors and Solyndra, so hecould return the money to tax-payers.

This is not a trivial point,because the socialist re-imag-

ining of Robin Hood as anagent of wealth redistributionfor the private sector is part ofthe mythology they love toprogram into our children.Kids are meant to grow upthinking that robbing fromrich people to redistributetheir wealth is heroic, becausethe accumulation of greatwealth is always theft.

And that’s exactly whatObama was saying inRoanoke, when he deliveredhis famous “you didn’t buildthat” speech. The entire pointof the speech – diluted not abit by absurd leftist attemptsto claim Obama doesn’t speakEnglish very well, and actu-ally meant to say “you didn’tbuild that roads and bridges”– is that successful people whorefuse to “give back” as muchmoney as Obama thinks they“owe” are stealing from thepublic.

Obama’s voice drippedwith contempt when he said,“Look, if you’ve been success-ful, you didn’t get there onyour own. I’m always struckby people who think, well, itmust be because I was just sosmart. There are a lot of smartpeople out there. It must bebecause I worked harder thaneverybody else. Let me tellyou something: there are awhole bunch of hardworkingpeople out there.”

He went on to list what hesees as the public resourcesunfairly plundered by these“smart people,” includingteachers, roads, bridges, theInternet, and “this unbeliev-able American system” ingeneral. As if the problem fac-ing America is that our tiny,impoverished governmentisn’t spending enough moneyon those things, or that Obamawould use every nickel of thenew taxes he desires for thosepurposes!

And all of this was said inthe context of justifyinggovernment’s limitless claimupon private wealth, becausethe president began this pas-sage from his speech as fol-lows: “But you know what,I’m not going to see us gut theinvestments that grow oureconomy to give tax breaks tome or Mr. Romney or folkswho don’t need them. So I’mgoing to reduce the deficit in abalanced way. We’ve alreadymade a trillion dollars’ worthof cuts. We can make anothertrillion or trillion-two, and

what we then do is ask for thewealthy to pay a little bit more.And, by the way, we’ve triedthat before – a guy named BillClinton did it. We created 23million new jobs, turned adeficit into a surplus, and richpeople did just fine. We cre-ated a lot of millionaires.”

Leaving aside the fact thatObama clearly believes hisaudience is filled with imbe-ciles who don’t remember thetech bubble of the 90s, thepoint behind this entire pas-sage of the speech was to paintObama as the socialist fairy-tale version of Robin Hood.He’s going to take what “therich” rightfully “owe” to thepeople, whose communal re-sources they have “stolen,”by profiting unfairly fromthem. And the very notion ofthe Evil Rich objecting to this –because they arrogantly be-lieve they’re responsible forthe success of their own en-terprises – is beneath con-tempt in Obama’s view. RobinHood shouldn’t even have toput an arrow into anyone’smoney bag. The refusal ofObama’s preferred revenuetargets to meekly hand overthe loot is damning, and hewants his audience to hate

them for it.Class warfare is founded

on hatred, mistrust, and con-tempt. They are links in thechains socialist expect theirsubjects to don willingly, ac-cepting a death spiral of pub-lic debt and private-sector col-lapse because the alternativewould be a rising tide thatlifts all boats… includingyachts. If Obama were forcedto concede his beloved TaxPolicy Center study was hog-wash, he’d move on to theargument he made inRoanoke: the private sectormust be made smallerthrough higher taxation, be-cause the government is right-fully entitled to all of thewealth created with the use ofpublic “infrastructure,” solowering the tax burden onthe rich – even if every tax-payer enjoys the same ratereductions – is equivalent tostealing from the dependentpoor.

And thanks to policies likeObamaCare, the “dependentpoor” increasingly includes asizable portion of what weused to call the “middle class.”That’s what Obama reallymeans by “Robin Hood in re-verse.”

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ST. DAMIEN CATHOLIC, Cashion-Piedmont8455 NW 234th (Sorghum Mill Rd), EdmondFr. Joseph Portzer, FSSP, Pastor, 405-330-9968Fr. Christopher Pelster, FSSP, Pastor

ST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC, HennesseyRev. Joseph H Ardledge, Pastor, 211 N. Cherokee, 853-4425

STS. PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC, KingfisherRev. Francis T Nguyen, Pastor, 309 S. Main, 375-4581

CHRISTIANCHRISTIAN, CashionJerry Sullaway, Pastor, 433-2266

CHRISTIAN, DoverFred Jones, Min., 828-4239

FIRST CHRISTIAN, HennesseyMickey Moery, Pastor, 3rd & Oak, 853-4482

FIRST CHRISTIAN, KingfisherMarilyn Merle, Pastor, 102 S. 7th, 375-3477

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CHURCH OF CHRISTCHURCH OF CHRIST, KingfisherSteve Minor, Pastor, 917 W. Will Rogers, 375-3919

LUTHERANEMMANUEL LUTHERAN, KingfisherRev. David Krepel, Min., Main & Douglas, 375-3431

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN, OkarcheRev. David Ersland, Pastor, 4th & Colorado, 263-7311

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MT. ZION UNITED METHODIST, OkarcheLamarla Cook, Pastor, 6 mi. S & 2 E of Okarche

UNITED METHODIST, CashionFelecia Hensley, Pastor

UNITED METHODIST, LoyalRobert Barr, Min., 729-4265

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NAZARENE, HennesseyPaul Kinsey Sr., Min., 200 S. Walnut, 853-2942

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WINGS OF FAITH HOLINESS, KingfisherJoe Ince, Min., 7-1/2 mi. E of Kingfisher, Hwy 33, 375-4268

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District court recordsSmall claims

Carl T. Pickens, 521 N. 6th,Kingfisher vs. RebeccaMartinez, P.O. Box 1042, King-fisher, $550, rent.

David Hall vs. StaceyLeonard, 1420 Magdalena Dr.,Oklahoma City, $1,400, ac-count services not completed,plus $63 court costs.

District civilThe Bank of New York

Mellon, as trustee for CITMortgage Loan Trust 2007-1vs. Vida Markus aka Vida LeeMarkus; John-Jane Doe,spouse of Vida Lee Marcus, ifmarried; occupants of the pre-mises; The Bank of New YorkMellon fka The Bank of New

York on behalf of CIT Mort-gage Loan Trust 2007-1,money judgment in theamount of $74,306.47, foreclo-sure.

Deaconess Health SystemLLC dba Deaconess Hospitalvs. Kelly I. Lukasek, Rt. 1, Box64, Kingfisher, money judg-ment in the sum of $553.77,default on account, plus inter-est, court costs and attorney’sfee.

Terry Osland vs. RandyYost, writ of Habeas Corpus.

FelonyState vs. Michael James

Gregory, 55, 912 W. Kings Dr.,Kingfisher, driving motor ve-hicle while under the influ-

ence of alcohol.Misdemeanor

State vs. Michael VintonWanzer, 20, 418 N. Cherokee,Hennessey, assault and bat-tery.

KFD logKingfisher Fire Depart-

ment officials reported sixemergency ambulance runsand three fire runs, accordingto reports Monday.

Fire runs•at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 24, medi-

cal assist;•at 4:45 a.m. Aug. 25, medi-

cal assist;•at 9 p.m. Aug. 25, one mile

west of 13th and Will Rogers,Kingfisher, grass fire.

Traffic accidentsKingfisher Police Depart-

ment officials investigatedtwo accidents, according toreports Monday.

The accidents occurred:•at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 22; at

1015 S. Main, Kingfisher, KFCparking lot; Jacob D. Eanes,31, 901 Raena Dr., Burleson,Texas, driving a 2005Freightliner, collided with le-gally parked 1997 Cadillacowned by Nicola Rodriguez,1501 S. 7th, Kingfisher; minordamage was reported to bothvehicles.

•at 8:55 p.m. Aug. 25; onOverstreet, Kingfisher, en-trance of Sonic parking lot;Michael Walter, 36, 701 S.

Main, Kingfisher, driving a2005 Chrysler, collided withguide wire on electric pole,wire dragged down passen-ger side of his van, wire brokeand caused an electric line tofall; functional damage wasreported to the Walter vehicle.

Area oil reportWELLS COMPLETED

Blaine: Continental ResourcesInc.; Didier No. 1-20H Well; S1/2SW1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 20-15N-12W; 3,273,000 cu-ft. gas perday, 90 barrels oil per day; TD17,444.

Continental Resources Inc.;Nash No. 1-5H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 05-15N-12W;2,447,000 cu-ft. gas per day, 58barrels oil per day; TD 14,734.

INTENT TO DRILLCanadian: QEP Energy Co.;

Virgie No. 7-13H Well; SW1/4 NE1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 (SL) of 13-14N-10W; TD 16,575.

United Production Co. LLC;Stambaugh No. 1-26 Well; SE1/4SE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 of 26-13N-05W; TD 8,000.

Area oil reportINTENT TO DRILL

Canadian: United ProductionCo. LLC; Starry No. 1-23 Well; NE1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 of 23-13N-05W; TD 8,000.

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Results of the open craftsdivision of the KingfisherCounty Free Fair have beenannounced in order of plac-ing as follow:

Open craftsBeginner up through

fourth gradeCeramics, glazed – Emily

Altizer of Kingfisher.Wood craft kit – Hailey

Bieren of Okarche.Leather craft – James Per-

due of Kingfisher, HaileyBieren and Jayce Evans ofCashion.

Paper craft – Jayce Evansand Hailey Bieren.

Foam craft – Jayce Evansand Hailey Bieren.

Bead craft – Prairie Kaya ofKingfisher.

Pillow – Kendyll Miller ofKingfisher.

Holiday decoration –Hailey Bieren.

Legos – Jayce Evans, JayTurner of Kingfisher and KaseSimon of Kingfisher.

Miscellaneous – James Per-due, Hailey Bieren and JayceEvans.

Ceramics, stained – CloiKochenower of Kingfisherand Gabriel Davis of Lomega.

Ceramics, miscellaneous –Rylee Glazier of Loyal.

Junior divisionFifth througheighth grade

Silk flower arrangement –Journee Jenkins of Kingfisher.

Wood craft kit – WyattKrittenbrink of Okarche.

Leather craft – WyattKrittenbrink.

Metal craft – Abby Cruz ofKingfisher and Cricket Kayaof Kingfisher.

Bead craft – GraceKrittenbrink of Okarche.

Fabric craft – Elizabeth Per-due of Kingfisher, Abby Cruzand Grace Krittenbrink.

Miscellaneous – Bailey Dal-las of Kingfisher, WyattKrittenbrink and AnnaGallupe of Kingfisher.

Memory album, one page,animals-pets – CloiKochenower.

Ninth gradethrough seniors

Ceramics, glazed – EmileeEvans of Cashion.

18 years and olderCeramics, glazed – Ken

Tollison of Kingfisher, RenaTollison of Kingfisher and JoKochenower of Kingfisher.

Fabric dolls – Sue White ofKingfisher.

Silk flower arrangement –Val Evans of Kingfisher, RenaTollison and Jenny Matthewsof Kingfisher.

Woodworking – EdiePreston of Dover.

Leather craft – CarolWilczek of Kingfisher, DougDavis of Loyal and MarnaDavis of Loyal.

Metal craft – Rosemary Coxof Kingfisher.

Bead craft – EmmaleinSchroeder of Kingfisher andSue White.

Fabric craft – Sue White,Emmalein Schroeder andMarna Davis.

Ceramics, dry brushing –Ken Tollison, Sue White andMark Perry of Kingfisher.

Christmas tree ornament –Rena Tollison and RosemaryCox.

Miscellaneous – MarnaDavis, Rena Tollison, FloHellwege of Kingfisher, KenTollison, Jenny Matthews andRosemary Cox.

Ceramics with add-ons –Ken Tollison, Jo Kochenowerand Leon Kochenower ofKingfisher.

Memory album, one page,other theme – EmmaleinSchroeder.

Ceramics, stained – JoKochenower, LeonKochenower, Ken Tollison.

Ceramics, antiqued – RenaTollison, Doris Brehm ofLomega and Jo Kochenower.

Ceramics, creativity – KenTollison, Sue White, EmileeEvans of Cashion and JoKochenower.

Ceramics, holiday – LeonKochenower, Rosemary Coxand Doris Brehm.

Ceramics, multimedia –Sue White, Rena Tollison andDoris Brehm.

Stuffed toys – Marna Davis.Hand work

Senior division18 years and older

Embroidered article – Su-san Schellenberg of Loyal,Diane Endres of Kingfisher,Jo Kochenower and TexieJones of Kingfisher.

Afghan-throw, crocheted –

Helen Blake of Kingfisher.Afghan-throw, other –

Donna Thomas of Kingfisher,Denise Boots of Kingfisher,Helen Blake and Sue White.

Needlepoint article – JoKochenower, ChristineKuelzer of Kingfisher, SueWhite, Doris Brehm, DonnaThomas, Irene George ofHennessey and Helen Blake.

Household article, knittedor crocheted – TheresaWilczek of Lomega, JoKochenower and LindaCaldwell of Dover.

Counted cross stitch article– Emmalein Schroeder.

Picture, crewel embroidery– Rosemary Winters and SueWhite.

Pot holder or hot pad –Christine Kuelzer, RosemaryCox and Helen Blake.

Tatting – Marna Davis.Purse-tote – Marna Davis

and Sue White.Jewelry – Makylah Endres

of Kingfisher, Donna Thomasand Doris Brehm.

Placemat – Helen Blake andJo Kochenower.

Table runner – DeniseBoots.

Christmas stocking – JennyMatthews.

Wall hanging – SusanSchellenberg, ChristineKuelzer, Florence Weber ofDover, Marna Davis andNorma Morrison of King-fisher.

Pillow, any kind – DeniseBoots, Christine Kuelzer andMarna Davis.

Kingfisher fair crafts results announcedResults of the open class

culinary division of the King-fisher County Free Fair havebeen announced in order ofplacing as follow:

Junior divisionThree muffins – Grace

Krittenbrink of Okarche.Decorated cake – Grace

Krittenbrink.Other cake – Grace

Krittenbrink.Three cinnamon rolls –

Tatum Yost of Lomega.Quick bread – Grace

Krittenbrink.Three dinner rolls – Tatum

Yost.Three no bake cookies –

Hailey Bieren of Okarche andGrace Krittenbrink.

Three brownies, no frost-ing – Hailey Bieren.

Three chocolate chip cook-ies – Grace Krittenbrink,Hailey Bieren and KeiraLudwig of Kingfisher.

Three peanut butter cook-ies – Rylee Glazier of Loyaland Hailey Bieren.

Three biscuits – GraceKrittenbrink.

Adult divisionWhite bread – Alice Mapel

of Kingfisher and Barbara Yeo-man of Dover.

Whole wheat bread – AliceMapel, Flo Hellwege of King-fisher and Barbara Yeoman.

Three cinnamon rolls – FloHellwege.

Quick bread – RosemaryWinters of Lomega, FloHellwege and Ruth McMullinof Kingfisher.

Three dinner rolls – MarieMcDonald of Kingfisher andFlo Hellwege.

Three muffins – AliceMapel, Carol Liles of King-fisher and Flo Hellwege.

One crust meringue – TexieJones of Kingfisher, CassandraSmith of Kingfisher, FloHellwege and JennyMatthews of Kingfisher.

One crust without me-ringue – Jo Crawford of King-fisher.

Two crust pie – PriyaJenkins of Dover.

Pecan pie – Bonnie Goatsof Kingfisher, Jenny Matthewsand Texie Jones.

Apple pie – CassandraSmith.

Miscellaneous pie – JoCrawford.

Three no bake cookies –Stephanie Bieren of King-fisher, Dot Miller ofHennessey and Doris Brehmof Lomega.

Three chill and bake – RuthMcMullin, Doris Brehm andFlo Hellwege.

Three rolled and cut withcutter – Alice Mapel.

Three drop cookies – DorisBrehm, Joann Sanders andCindy Wilczek of Kingfisher.

Three brownies, no frost-ing – Stephanie Bieren, FloHellwege and Barbara Yeo-man.

Chocolate chip cookies –Carole Liles, Marjorie Garmsof Kingfisher and BrendaDewald of Dover.

Three peanut butter cook-ies – Cali Glazier of Loyal, FloHellwege and StephanieBieren.

Three oatmeal cookies –Ruth McMullin, Linda Tuckerof Kingfisher and MarjorieGarms.

Three bar cookies – Bar-bara Yeoman, Ruth McMullinand Rosemary Winters.

Three miscellaneous –Mary Stangl, Cindy Wilczek,Mary Stangl and Doris Brehm.

Fudge – Texie Jones.Peanut brittle – Ruth

McMullin.Miscellaneous – Barbara

Yeoman and Ruth McMullin.State Wheatheart

Bread contestJunior division

Bread machine – GraceKrittenbrink.

Senior divisionWhole grain bread –

Ashton Mese of Kingfisher.Other wheat bread – Don

Robison of Kingfisher.

Kingfisher fair culinary results announced

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HENNESSEYLOMEGAKINGFISHER DOVER CRESCENT OKARCHECASHION

Coach Alan Palesano saidbefore the season started thathis Kingfisher High Schoolgirls’ team’s success was go-ing to depend on how his fivefreshman performed.

If Saturday’s first race wasany indication, it could be an-other solid season for the LadyJackets.

KHS placed third overallafter the 2,500-meter race astwo runners placed in the top-20 and four in the top-35.

The top three finishers wereall freshmen as Bailey Pricewas 15th (11:14.09), MacyBoden 18th (11:29.72) andSydnee Gerken 31st (12:00.21).

“Making the step to highschool is huge and they re-sponded well,” said Palesano.“Placing third was a great con-fidence builder for the team.”

Esmerelda Camarena was35th with a time of 12:18.62,Lexi Smith 40th (12:33.75) andKirsten Seely 66th.

Anadarko won the meetwith 39 team points. Canute(43) was the runner-up whileKHS finished with 61 points.

The KHS boys finishedsixth as a team and, as ex-pected, Alan Murphey andLogan Sigl led the way.

Murphey ran 15th, finish-

Guymon atKingfisherWhen: 7:30 p.m.

FridayLast season: King-

fisher was 9-2 andadvanced to the sec-ond round of theClass 3A playoffs;Guymon finished 1-9.

About the game:Normally, this is thetime of year King-fisher and Watongameet up in their long-time rivalry.Watonga took care ofthat by getting out ofthe series due to com-petitive reasons. Af-ter an exhaustive andlargely empty search,Kingfisher had tosettle on a two-yearseries with Guymon.The visiting Tigersare moving up toClass 5A and are inthe midst of seriousstruggles, havingwon just four gamesin four years. King-fisher, meanwhile, istabbed by multiplepublications as theNo. 1 team in Class3A. Don’t expectmuch of a contest.Thanks, Watonga, forthe return trip toGuymon next year.

ing the four-kilo-meter race in15:27.06. Sigl was21st with his timeof 15:47.47.

“It was apretty big meetand to place inthe top-20 wasreally good,”Palesano said.

In the middleschool boys,Kingfisher put ona show of domi-nation Palesanohas rarely seen.

The Jacketsplaced five run-ners in the top-10and ran awaywith the teamchampionship.

“In all myyears of coach-ing, I’ve neverhad five runnersin the top 10 in arace of this cali-ber,” he said.“They will be theteam to beat atmost every meetthis year.”

Dakoda Hartplaced fourth in

KHS has solid showing to start XC seasonMiddle school boys run away with team title, girls 2nd at Watonga

KINGFISHER SOPHOMORE Alan Murphey was 15th inthe high school boys’ cross country meet at Watonga lastweekend. [Photos by Kaitlin St. Cyr, KHS Photography]

the 2,500-meter race, startinga string of Jackets to cross thefinish line.

Teammates Sam Walter,Hector Saucedo and JettSternberger were fifth, sixthand seventh, respectively.

Reece Lafferty pushedacross the line in ninth placewhile Haynes Lafferty was21st.

The Jackets had just 20 teampoints, well ahead of second-place Weatherford’s 49.

Palesano got a pleasantsurprise in the middle schoolgirls’ race when the Lady Jack-ets took runner-up in the teamchase.

“I honestly wasn’t expect-ing that, but they really roseto the challenge,” he said.

Madelyn St. Cry pacedKingfisher with her third-place finish. Madeline Loosenwas 19th and Tatum Shelton25th to lead the rest of thecharges.

KMS finished with 89 teampoints. Laverne won the teamchase with 78.

The middle school andhigh school teams travel toWeatherford on Saturday fortheir second meet of the sea-son.

Esmerelda Camarena

KINGFISHER CASHION HENNESSEY CRESCENT

Cashion atOkeene

When: 7:30 p.m.Friday

Last season:Cashion finished 6-6and advanced to thesecond round of theClass A playoffs;Okeene was 6-5 andwas eliminated in thefirst round of Class Aplayoffs.

About the game:These teams havebeen district oppo-nents the last fewyears, but the re-districting took careof that. Instead,they’ll test each otherearly in what couldbe a playoff preview.Okeene has someholes to fill andCashion is hoping toavoid the injury bugthat plagued it a yearago. Regardless, bothare expected to con-tend for their respec-tive district crownsand, possibly, a statetitle.

Crescent atNewkirk

When: 7:30 p.m.Thursday

Last season: Cres-cent was 6-5 and ad-vanced to the Class Aplayoffs; Newkirkwas 8-3 and advancedto the Class 2A play-offs.

About the game:Newkirk was one ofthe surprise teams ayear ago, getting offto a fantastic start be-fore finishing 8-3 un-der formerHennessey headcoach BobUnderwood. They’llbe looking to build onthat against Crescent,which has severalsolid skill weapons,but will be breakingin some new bodiesin the trenches. In thelong run, the gamemeans little, but sea-sons openers can helpset the tone for therest of the season.

C.H.A. atHennesseyWhen: 7:30 p.m.

FridayLast season:

Hennessey finished13-2 and won theClass 2A state title;Christian Heritagefinished 5-5.

About the game:Rick Luetjen makeshis debut as a headcoach and the Eaglesshould be testedmore than in seasonopeners in the recentpast. Christian Heri-tage should put asolid team on the fieldwith quality line playand an experiencedq u a r t e r b a c k .Hennessey, however,is the two-time de-fending 2A champand is expected tocontend once again.Potentially theHennessey offensecould struggle early,but look for theEagles to settle downand pull away.

Friday NightQuick Guide

The Times and Free Press2012 Football Preview will beincluded in the Sunday edi-tion.

Look for team photos, sto-ries, rosters schedules andmore as we feature the highschool teams from Kingfisher,

Cashion, Crescent andHennessey.

Also inside will be teamphotos of the Kingfisher jun-ior high teams, the 2012-13KHS cheerleading squad andmore.

2012 KT&FP football previewset for release in Sunday edition

Jesus Gamez was at it againMonday for the Dover Long-horns.

The sophomore pitched acomplete game two-hitter asDover knocked off Blair 2-1 inthe opening round of the Hy-dro-Eakly Labor Day Tourna-ment.

Gamez struck out 13 bat-ters and surrendered just onewalk as Dover improved to10-5 on the season.

The Longhorns will playFort Cobb-Broxton at 4 p.m.Thursday in Hydro in the nextround of the double-elimina-tion tournament.

“They got the tying run onin the seventh inning, but Inever was really worried,”said Dover skipper BrettHolmes. “The bottom of theirlineup wasn’t real strong andJesus did a great job in shut-

ting them down.”D’Vante Randle gave Do-

ver its initial run in the firstinning when his double offthe wall scored FranciscoHernandez from first base.

Senior Colby Robertson’sinfield single in the fourth in-ning pushed across the even-tual game winner.

Dover entered the weekranked seventh in Class B inthe initial coaches’ poll for the2012 fall season.

The win over Blair set up apotential showdown withOkarche in the winner’sbracket. However, a two-outerror proved way too costlyas the Warriors dropped a 6-3decision to Fort Cobb-Broxton.

Okarche fell behind 3-0 inthe contest, tied it up, but theerror opened up the gates forthe Mustangs.

Dover wins, Okarche dropsLabor Day tourney opener

Okarche will play Blair at 4p.m. Friday at Hydro in anelimination game. From there,all games Saturday and Mon-day will be played at Eakly.

D’Vante Randle

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