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Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free Press Sunday, December 30, 2012 3For one important thing,they are said to protect againstThey’re also considered anLomega schedule toldLomega schools’ officials ity, (H), 5 p.m.; seventh andhave announced the schedule eighth grade boys basketballfor the week of Dec. 31 as follows:vs. Holy Trinity, (H), 6:30 p.m.Friday – High school bas-Wednesday – No school, ketball vs. Cherokee, (H), 6:30professional day.p.m.Thursday – First day of secondsemester; third and fourth Healthy Eatinggrade basketball vs. Holy Trinity,Why are blueberries (and(H), 4 p.m.; fifth and sixth some other berries) recom-grade basketball vs. Holy Trin- mended as healthful food?mouth and neck cancers.all-around health food.OKARCHE FOURTH graders recently toured the statecapitol and visited with Rep. Mike Sanders. He answeredquestions and gave each student a booklet aboutOklahoma. The fourth graders include, from left: frontrow –Jadyn Arms, Laura Liebl, Lexi Wilson, EmmaReherman, Kori Cox, Emma Labat, and Casey Gardner;second row – Ember Black, Elana Collins, Cortney Smith,Tyler Schwarz, Madison Owens, Hayley Coffey, JackBernhardt, and Jackson Reherman; third row – JustinWilliams, Carson Baustert, Blake Henrichs, Tyler Peters,CHRISTMAS SPIRIT – Chisholm Trail Technology Center Health Occupation Studentsof America (HOSA), got into the Christmas spirit by collecting items to be donated to afamily in need. The practical nursing students collected toys, food and clothing itemsand delivered them just before the holiday. Pictured are, standing, from left, KateAltizer, Chassidy Bedwell and Ellen Edmonson; kneeling, Kayla Ragsdale and JeriNagle, and, seated, Mona Ramirez, Katlin Cantrell, Chelsea Snyder, Tasha Clewell andAlicia Rempe. The students are instructed by Deena Shepherd RN, BSN and Ann FinleyRN BSN. [Photo Provided]100 years agoOld timers in Kingfisherill no doubt remember onerank Halloway, who madehis town a “hangout” about2 years ago, and worked ahort time for several peopleere. This same Frank was theeader of a gang of hold-upsnd train robbers raided byhe police in Memphis onuesday. He was also wantedn Texas to serve out sevenears of an unexpired sentencen the penitentiary from whiche escaped about a year ago.Chas. Fulk and Nick Lenzf Okarche were here yesterayattending the blackmith’sconvention.75 years agoAnnouncement was madehis week of the sale of theuilding at the southeast corerof Main and Admire to.V. Clark, to be used to househe Wardrobe Cleaners. Thisroperty, owned by J.M.peice, has been occupied byhe Lee Millinery Shop andhe Flora Nell Beauty Shop.Mrs. Rufus Choate ofennessey was named countyresident of the Women’shristian Temperance Unionhen members held a calledounty meeting Friday afteroonin the home of Mrs. Corausick. Mrs. Choate succeedsrs. Oscar Evanson, now aesident of Muskogee.50 years agoGeorge Borelli of Kingisherwas re-elected as a viceresident of the Oklahomaattlemen’s Association at the0th annual convention of thessociation held last week atulsa.Mollie Shepherd took Mr.nd Mrs. Homer Pittsmore,andruff Diamond andartha Burgess to Red Rocko see their leaser and visitndy Hudson’s aunt, Graceihiki. Lots oil wells aroundhat area, five or 10 acres apart.ame by Bear Creek, whereomer’s mother lives.25 years agoPam Halverson, daughterf Mr. and Mrs. George Yeoanof Dover, recently reeivedthe Charlotte Pattersonemorial Award at the IndeendentInsurance Agents ofrkansas conference in LittleRock, Ark.The award is presentedeach year to the outstandinginsurance woman in Arkansasin honor of the late CharlottePatterson, a professionalinsurance woman.• Rent Based On Income• Energy Efficient• On-Site Laundry• Social Activities• Newly Remodeled• Efficiency Apartments• One Bedroom ApartmentsBluegrass clubto hold concertThe Oklahoma BluegrassClub will hold a concert at 7p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at KerrMiddle School, 2300 S. 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4 Sunday, December 30, 2012 Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free PressVIEWfrom behind theplow(A column of opinion by Gary Reid)Gary is retiring; Barry now sole ownerThis is it – a day we never expected to see – retirement.Effective Dec. 27, we have sold our stock in KingfisherNewspapers, Inc. to our son, Barry Reid, who has served asadvertising salesman and as co-publisher of the newspapersince January 1983 after graduating from the University ofOklahoma.Other personnel at the newspaper will remain the same.This is not the only day we never expected to see.We never expected to see the year 2000, or to qualify forSocial Security, or to see grandchildren or even, now greatgrandchildren– five of them, with another on the way.We entered the newspaper business on Monday, Jan. 16,1958, after graduating from Oklahoma State University atStillwater the Friday before.We also never expected to be in the newspaper business.We never particularly liked the media as a whole and stilldon’t. It just never entered our mind to go into the journalismfield until our brother, Ken, now of Weatherford, toldus that there would be reporter’s job waiting at the PaulsValley Daily Democrat where he was co-publisher when wegot out of school.A job – with a paycheck and maybe even a vacation andmaybe other benefits. That sounded pretty good to a kidwith a cotton patch background who was working threejobs while trying to make ends meet as he traversed the“higher education” bureaucracy in a school that had 9,000-plus students, far more than Altus High School.We soon learned that the stiffest competition for gradescame not from the bigger city students but rather the ruralschools.Some things never change.We expected college to be tough but found that it waseasier than the high school we attended.As the slowest kid in our family, we always figured tohave to work hard at everything we did.One thing we learned quickly about the newspaperbusiness is that it wasn’t that different from the job ofmilking the cows at our farm home; it was a constant pushto get the job done.Another thing we discovered was that there wasn’tmuch time for a vacation.A third thing we discovered was that it wasn’t verylucrative, at least in a small market.But there was the good side, too. If you worked hard anddidn’t go crazy buying stuff you didn’t need you could getby and raise and educate a family.Also, you got to be a part of communities in a uniqueway, becoming acquainted in a more personal way withthose you do stories about and letting others become betteracquainted with them, also.We appreciate the 33 years we have been allowed towork and be a part of Kingfisher County, sharing goodtimes and difficult times with a lot of fine people.We will still live here and may be called on from time totime to help at the newspaper; we just won’t be on thepayroll.We ask that you show the new publisher of the Times andFree Press the same consideration you have us.We believe a home-owned, independent newspaper isthe best kind, and one that is getting in short supply.We are pleased to pass on a locally-owned newspaper toan individual you already know and trust.The Times and Free Press is in good hands.A Christmas storyDr. Jim Vineyard, retired minister of the Windsor HillsBaptist Church in Oklahoma City, sent the following inspirationalstory to friends last week.It is fitting for the Christmas season with its message ofpeace and love.Christmas Eve 1944 found the Battle of the Bulge still goingn. A German Boy, Fritz Vincken, was 12 that Christmas Eve.elow is the story in its entirety as told by Fritz Vincken. I hopeomething in it will “inspire” you. I am sure it will be a blessing;When we heard the knock on our door that Christmas Eve in 1944,either Mother nor I had the slightest inkling of the quiet miracle thatay in store for us. I was 12 then, and we were living in a small cottagen the Hürtgen Forest, near the German-border. Father had stayed athe cottage on hunting weekends before the war; when Allied bombersartly destroyed our hometown of Aachen, he sent us to live there. Head been ordered into the civil-defense fire guard in the border townf Monschau, four miles away.”You’ll be safe in the woods,” he hadold me. “Take care of Mother. Now you’re the man of the family.”ut, nine days before Christmas, Field Marshal von Rundstedt hadaunched the last, desperate German offensive of the war, and now, aswent to the door, the Battle of the Bulge was raging all around us.e heard the incessant booming of field guns; planes soared continuuslyoverhead; at night, searchlights stabbed through the darkness.The Kingfisher Times & Free PressAll I know is what Iread in the papers.–Will RogersBarry ReidEditor and -publisherChristine ReidNews EditorRobin JohnstonAdvertising Director[See View, Page 5](USPS No. 295-420)Published Every Sunday and Wednesdayby Kingfisher Newspapers, Inc. at323 N. Main, Kingfisher, OK 73750Periodicals Postage Paid at Kingfisher,OK 73750POSTMASTER: Send address changesto:Kingfisher Times and Free Press, P.O.Box 209, Kingfisher, OK 73750MemberNewskfrtimes@pldi.netAdvertisingkfrtimesads@pldi.netSubscriptions/Legalskfrnews@pldi.netBrenda Slater .................................... Office ManagerDebbie Benson ......................................... NewswriterJeremy A. Ingle ..................... Staffwriter-ProductionTwila Adams ........................ Proofreader-newswriterBrandy Kuehl ......................... Subscriptions-LegalsMichael Swisher ................................... Sports EditorBUSINESS HOURS: Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.General Information, Subscriptions, Circulation Phone: 375-3220Big government turns slippery slopes into fiscal cliffs…By Ted BuswellWe’ve been reading andhearing about the devastating“fiscal cliff” ahead that thenation will be falling overwhen the new year arrives unlessthe President and Congressget their heads togetherin a game of hope for monthsnow.Well, it looks like the timewill arrive with no cure in sightfor the terrible predicted financialcollapse of the mostprosperous nation ever onearth. No compromise seemsto be in sight for the diametricallyopposed executive andlegislative branches of ourconstitutional republic.And the problems of separationseem to defy judicialsettlement in the courts aswell. Who would ever suspectthat we public figures ofsimpler thought and functioncould be worthy of advice insuch serious conundrumsanyway? Perhaps that’s whywe are neither asked for advicenor listened to seriouslyin such dilemmas.Isn’t it odd that such seriousproblems of finance andmanagement so blatantly obviousnow in the national capitalare on a smaller scale seenaround the country in statesand counties and towns aswell? What can it be in ournature that invariably bringssuch corruption and instabilityto our collective efforts ofgovernance of our lives?A knight at the round tablethe other day opined that apart of the problem is simplypopulations growing beyondspace available for peacefulcoexistence. No doubt thisdoes give reason to some ofthe turmoil we see that ourgreat grandparents didn’thave to cope with. And theproblem is apparent throughoutthe world whereverpeople coexist culturally togetherin growing numbers.It’s hard to believe thatdairy cows and beef cows belongto the same species.Whereas Holsteins, Jerseys,Guernseys and the rest of theirmilking sisters are urban andurbane, beef cows are purecountry. Dairy cows are gregariouscreatures of habit whointeract with humans on atouchy-feely basis two or threetimes a day. Beef cows areloners. They might get togetherfor drinks at the watertrough but they quickly gotheir own way and don’t dillydallyand exchange gossip likedairy cows do. Beef cows usuallyhave human contact onceor twice a year and that’s usuallyin a squeeze chute wherecowboys prod and poke andstick them with pointy objects.Milking mommas are farmore cultured than commercialbeef cows, often listeningto mariachi music or opera onthe radio, depending on who’sdoing the milking. Holsteinshave the parenting skills ofNBA basketball players andcan never tell you where theirkids are. Beef cows are morelike Little League parents andsoccer moms and will fight tothe death anything or anybodywho threatens their kids.It’s a common sight to see twoor three generations of beefcow families living together.Dairy cows freshen up severaltimes a day and have theirspigots cleaned for them on aregular basis. Holsteins getpedicures, haircuts and aremisted with perfume everytime they go to the milkingsalon. The only time beef cowstake a bath is when it rains.Sex is not a big thing withCity Cow/Country Cowdairy divas. They might havea romantic interlude once ayear and that’s with an A.I.technician wearing a plasticglove. It’s a very unsatisfyingexperience and as a result,dairy cows are like nuns, orold women in rest homes, whofind that they can live quitenicely, thank you very much,without any male companionship.Beef cows, on the otherhand spend three months everyyear being chased by agang of boy toys. They reallyenjoy seeing males fight overthem.It’s the PittsBy Lee PittsThe natural enemies ofHolsteins are mastitis, heavyhanded milking machines andBSE. Natural enemies of beefcows include lions, governmentsponsored wolves,Cargill, Quarter Horses, cowboyswith ropes, and stopand-gotruck drivers.Holsteins are fussy eaters,refusing to eat anything butthe best alfalfa and corn. Ifthey were people they’d shoplocally at the farmer’s marketand buy nothing but organicor natural. They all look likethey could use a big helpingof Weight Watchers. Beef cowsare binge eaters and areanorexic and bulimic duringdrouths. They’ll eat sagebrushand dirt if they have to, haveno idea what corn is, and anyhay they get is usually raindamaged and soon-to-beOther worldly animals lessblest with such (superior?)intelligence as ours seem naturallylimited by climate, spaceand available food when itcomes to population.Mother Nature, left aloneprovides normal balance ofearthly life, but we tend todefy what laws of nature wecan to our own desires. Andwe’ve made sizable achievementsin our efforts.One point of vulnerabilitythat has become dominant inmankind through the eons ofhistory, particularly in the lastfew thousand years, is ourdependence on trade and theopen market place.Money of one kind or anotherhas become the bulwarkof our strength and defense inall matters of our living. Thedifference between incomeand expenses is the commonmeasure of success amongpeople and the nations ofwhich they are a part. Whenone acquires more of the commoncurrency than is requiredfor living expenses it isdeemed success. When expensesexceed income, such isfailure and continued existencerequires credit and loans.Such a formula applies to individuals,business enterprisesand governments everywhere.Most of us haveexperienced such facts personallyand so have our governingbodies at every level ofcomplexity and size. At thistime we are witnessing greatertroubles in the area than hasbeen seen since the depressionthat ended with our mobilizationand declaration ofwar after the Japanese attackon our naval fleet at PearlHarbor in 1941.Hopefully our leadersmight actually get together insincere effort to arrive at cooperativemeans of balancingour national income with expensesin such timely manneras to avoid the horrors anddevastation that are most aptto occur if they don’t. We arewatching our national debtgrow in amounts that defy ourunderstanding. Just howmuch is a trillion dollars, anyway?You and I are each oneof about 350 some millionAmericans. Just what is ourpersonal share of that nationaldebt? Could (or would) youwrite a check today to payyour share of it on demand? Ifyou were running the governmentof China or the other“banker” nations to whom weare so indebted what wouldbe your action to deal withnonpayment of such debt?How do our local bankersdeal with matters of nonpaymentof loans and mortgages?Ah well, surely we can counton the likes of Obama andBoehner to resolve their differencesand bring to the tablesome wisdom unseen in theirbehaviors up to now.B. Hussein just returnedfrom his childhood haunts inHawaii and will surely be inspiredby infantile memoirsof innocence to bring childishwisdom to the matter.And no doubt such purityof thought and motive willaffect the Republican opposition,too. We will surely seethe country abound with vigorinto quick and strong recoveryfrom the shared flaws ofpast deeds and endeavors ofbipartisan neglect and mismanagement.We’ll see what happenswhen the opposing leaders upthere try pulling in one directiontogether. Of course unlessit’s in the “right” direction,it could get ever worse.Hopefully the worst willbe behind us and our ills mightbe at least on the mend in 2013.Where else can we go fromhere anyway?tinkled on by their spoiledkids.If dairy cows were carsthey’d be fully-loadedCadillac Escalades withleather, four chrome wheelsand rear windshield washers.Beef cows would be old pickupswith one window thatwon’t roll up, a missingbumper and are not current intheir registration with theDMV.If dairy cows were peoplethey’d be WASPY Republicans,all the same color whohave white collar jobs or areU.S. ambassadors. They cantrace their lineage back to theMayflower and have nameslike Abigail HyacinthKennedy. Beef cows would beblue collar Democrats whodon’t want to know their ancestryfor fear of what theymight find. If cowboys evercall beef cows by name theyare not monikers we can printin a family newspaper.Dairy cows are more intopolitics and are often seenpondering dairy buy-out legislationthat might affect theirfuture. Beef cows never vote,couldn’t name their Congressman,and say they hate thegovernment, even thoughsome are on Food stamps, SocialSecurity and Medicare.Dairy cows would be appalledat the thought that they mightend up in a McDonalds BigMac or Burger King Whopper,while beef cows would bequite proud, actually, if theyknew they might have theirloins stolen and passed off aschoice beef in some chain ofcheap steakhouses.wwwLeePittsbooks.comMICHELLE MALKIN7 things parentscan do post-Newtown withoutgovernmentThese simple commonsensesteps are adapted froma post I published on my blogafter the horrific Newtown,Conn., massacre. Our heartsache, but we are not completelyhelpless or hopelessin the face of evil and the unknown.And we are not alone.This Christmas, cherish life,keep faith and practice selfempowerment.7. Teach our kids about theacts of heroes in times of crisis.Tell them about Newtownteacher Vicki Soto’s self-sacrificeand bravery. Tell thema b o u tClackamasmall shopperNick Meli, aconcealedcarrypermitholderwhoseMalkinquick actionmay have preventedadditionaldeaths. Tell them aboutFamily Research Council securityguard Leo Johnson,who protected workers froma crazed gunman. Tell themabout the heroic men in theAurora movie theater whogave their lives taking bulletsfor their loved ones. Tell themabout armed Holocaust Museumsecurity guard StephenTyrone Johns, who died fightingback against themuseum’s nutball attacker.Tell them about armed privatecitizen Jeanne Assam,who gunned down the NewLife Church attacker in ColoradoSprings and saved untoldlives.6. Train our kids. Whenthey see something troublesomeor wrong, say something.Students, teachers andparents, if a young classmateexhibits bizarre or violent behaviortoward himself or herself,report it right away. If itgets ignored, say it louder.Don’t give up. Don’t justshrug off the “weirdo” sayingor doing dangerousthings, and don’t just hopesomeone else will act.5. Limit our kids’ timeonline, and control their exposureto desensitizing culturalinfluences. Turn off theTV. Get them off the bloodyvideo games. Protect themfrom age-inappropriate Hollywoodviolence. Make surethey are active and engagedwith us and the world, andnot pent up in a room onlineevery waking moment.4. If you see a parent strugglingwith an out-of-controlchild, don’t look the otherway. If you are able to offerany kind of help (your time,resources, wisdom), do it.Don’t wait.3. We still don’t know themedical condition of theNewtown shooter. But we doknow that social stigmas arestrong. We don’t need governmentto take immediate,individual action to breakthose stigmas. There are millionsof children, teens andyoung adults suffering fromvery real mental illnesses. Besilent no more about yourfamily’s experiences, yourstruggles, your pains andyour fears. Speak up.2. Prepare and protect yourcommunity. Joe Cascarelli ofWestcliffe, Colo., wrote meabout how he and other citizenstook their children’ssafety into their own hands.“It was 10 years ago that oursheriff put an ad in the localpaper to initiate the formationof the Sheriff’s Posse.About 40 of us volunteered;today we have about 20 activePosse members. Eightyears ago, the Posse commandstaff offered to provide thelocal school district with dailysecurity patrols when theschool was in session, atschool athletic events andduring school dances includingthe annual prom.” Lawenforcement conducted emergencydrills, training to preparefor mass shootings andjoint sessions with first responders.“The Posse has continuedits patrols at school events andduring the school day. Possepatrols have become a visible,accepted part of our community,”Cascarelli told me.“Anyone intent on harmwould see armed uniformedpersonnel at the school daily.The Posse even has an AmberAlert at the local rodeo. Whenan atrocity like Columbine,[See Malkin, page 5]