Volume 112 No. 45 75 Cents Thursday February 10, 2011P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail bcnews@ptsi.net

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THIS DAY IN HISTORYFEB. 10

THIS DAY IN MUSIC

Destiny SpellThe Boise City 4-H’s regu-

lar meeting was Wednesday,Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. at the PTCIBuilding.

The FFA Open CeremonyTeam came and did the cer-emony and Parliamentary Pro-cedure. After they had finishedwe asked questions.

Katie, Paul and Autumn alldid demonstrations,

Ms. Graham gave us thedates of the stock shows.

We had refreshments after-wards.

DEC. MEETINGOur December meeting con-

sisted of a Christmas Party. Weexchanged gifts, played games,and ate lots of goodies.

Boise City 4-H MeetingsJAN. MEETING

On January 5, we had ourregular meeting at 6:30 p.m. atthe PTCI Building. Thereweren’t any speeches or dem-onstrations at this meeting butwe had two guest speakers.

One of the speakers dis-cussed the upcoming stockshow. He told us the rules andexpectations.

The other guest discussedwith us how to give a good andsuccessful speech. She told usto use posters and make themcolorful and informational.

We wrapped up the meetingby planning the 4-H Meeting forspeeches and demonstrations onJan. 19.

SOMETHING TO THINKABOUT

We give a dunce cap to:The Boise CityNews Editor.When we heardthat CimarronCounty was onceagain going to

have an Extension Officewe were thrilled. At lastour small 4-H Clubs couldhave behind them the fullforce and use of the state

I HAVE MISSERVED THE 4-Hof Oklahoma. However,since we ran the initial ar-ticle about the new office, Ihave dropped the ball. Ihave missed placing one ad,and two weeks in a rowmissed having the articleabove in the paper. I andthe paper will try to putmore stickum on my fin-gers so there will be fewerfumbles in the future.- C.F.

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0060 St Paul thought tohave been shipwrecked atMalta1535 12 nude Anabaptistsrun through Amsterdamstreets1676 Wampanoag Indiansunder King Philip kill allmen in Lancaster MA1720 Edmund Halley ap-pointed 2nd AstronomerRoyal of England1763 Treaty of Paris endsFrench-Indian War, surren-ders Canada to England1774 Andrew Becker dem-onstrates diving suit1855 US citizenship lawsamended all children of USparents born abroadgranted US citizenship1890 Around 11 millionacres, ceded to US by SiouxIndians opens for settle-ment1940 Tom & Jerry createdby Hanna & Barbera debutby MGM1947 WWII peace treatiessigned1954 Eisenhower warnsagainst US intervention inVietnam

1942, Glen Miller becamethe first person to beawarded a Gold disc, for his‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’,single.1962, Henry Mancini wentto No.1 on the US albumchart with the soundtrackto ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s.’1976, Elvis Presley wasmade a police reserve forthe Memphis police.1985, Johnny Cash andWaylon Jennings appearedat the Radio City MusicHall in New York City.

“A belief which leaves noplace for doubt is not a be-lief; it is a superstition.” -Jose Bergamin

Jesus RubalcavaThe Plainview 4-H Club

met at 1 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2011in the Music Room.

President WranglerRickman called the meeting toorder.

Vice-President Frank Wallled the club in the 4-H ritual.

The Secretary, JesusRubalcava, called the roll andread the minutes of the No-vember meeting, and the De-cember Christmas party.

Serena Cousins made a mo-tion to adjourn the businessmeeting; it was seconded by

Daniela Hernandez.The program had three talks.

Wrangler and Frank talked aboutthe Pronghorn.

Jesus and Canyon Rickmanhad a team talk on Dachshunddogs.

Jesus had an individual talkon the Oklahoma State Capital.

After the talks CimarronCounty Extension Agent NickRisley talked about camping,shooting sports, judging and therally.

Leaders present were NickRisley, Joyce Wells, and SusanRussell.

PLAINVIEW 4-H CLUB NEWS

Ken Miller shows off a flag cake as auctioneer Bob White laments the Star-SpangledBanner as sang at the Super Bowl. The two were helping Cimarron County Cub Scoutsin their cake auction fund-raiser Monday night. The auction raised $4,160, with cakesreaching more than $200 in price. This is Scout Week, and the Blue and Gold Awardbanquet will be Saturday at 12:30 in the new fair building. It will be preceded by thePinewood Derby at 10 a.m.

The Relay For Life of TexasCounty will kick-off the 2011season Monday, Feb. 21 witha dinner at Hunny’s and allcancer fighters are invited toattend. Area cancer survivors,caregivers, families who havelost a loved one to cancer,corporate sponsors, teamcaptains and team membersand all those wanting to forma Relay For Life team are allneeded to help raiseawareness and funding for theAmerican Cancer Society.Persons wishing to attend areasked to RSVP by Feb. 16to Jana_Harris@Seaboardfoods.com or

Cancer fighters invited to at-tend Relay For Life of TexasCounty kick-off banquet

580-461-5174. Featuredspeaker will be Pam Newmanof Roaring Springs, Texas, acaregiver Hero of Hope who’sson survived Burkitt’slymphoma. As the Relay ForLife moves indoors for 2011,the kick-off will offer a lot ofinformation on Societyprogress and patient servicesalong with the opportunity tojoin the Relay committee, starta team, buy a luminaria, honorsurvivors and caregivers andhelp protect every birthdaythreatened by every cancer inevery community.

ATTENTION!!!The Cimarron CountySpelling Bee has been re-scheduled for Friday, Feb.11th at 10 a.m., Boise CityPTCI Meeting room.

Senior Center President Bo Burkhalter, right, presents Lou Schwindt, the Angel Af-ghan she won. The Center took donations for the the beautiful work done by BridgetAtkins, of Little Rock, Ark.

T r i - C o u n t yE l e c t r i cC o o p e r a t i v eI n c r e a s e sSupport

By Laura HaysGoodwell—Tri-County

Electric Cooperative Inc. hascommitted an additional $2,500to Oklahoma Panhandle StateUniversity each fall and springsemester to use for academicprograms. The local electriccooperative will continue its sup-port in athletics an approxi-mately $8,000 per year and will

Tri-County Electric Cooperative’s Zac Perkins, left, pre-sents OPSU President Dave Bryant with a check for the2011 spring grant. Tri-County has committed an extra $5,000per year to OPSU to help support academic programs.—Laura Hays photo

also continue providing additionalfinancial assistance for OPSU’sCommunity Service LearningProgram.

In 2010, the local power pro-vider donated $3 million in elec-trical upgrades, the largest singlecontribution in OPSU’s history.Tri-County Electric helped fundthe Science and AgricultureBuilding and was also honoredby the Oklahoma State Regentsfor Higher Education in 2007 fortheir economic developmentpartnership with OPSU.

OPSU appreciates Tri-County Electric’s support andlooks forward to continuing ourstrong partnership.

OKLAHOMA CITY –The recent murder/suicide of ayoung mother of a 14-month oldby the baby’s father in the Mid-Del area of central OklahomaCounty once again draws atten-tion to a sobering statistic in thestate. More women are mur-dered in Oklahoma by their sig-nificant others than in most otherstates. In an effort to addressthe problem, Sen. Constance N.Johnson has filed legislation tohelp fight domestic violence in thestate.

“Protecting citizens is ourmost important job as lawmak-ers. We need to ensure thatwomen have all the tools neces-sary to protect themselves fromharm. Knowledge is power,” saidJohnson, D-Oklahoma County. “Given the high rate of death fromdomestic abuse in our state, auseful step to take is to makepeople convicted of domestic vio-lence register with law enforce-

Bill will add domestic abusers toviolent crime offenders registry

ment just like sex offenders andperpetrators of other violentcrimes. The public, and in thiscase women, deserve to beaware of who these individualsare.”

Senate Bill 502 would adddomestic violence to the list ofcrimes requiring registration un-der the Mary Rippy Violent CrimeOffenders Registration Act. Theregistry was created in 2004 andis maintained by the Departmentof Corrections.

Domestic violence is a pat-tern of behavior used to estab-lish power and control over an-other person through the use offear and intimidation, often in-cluding the threat or actual useof violence. It can include emo-tional, economic and sexualabuse as well as threats, usingchildren, male privilege, intimida-tion, isolation, or a variety ofother behaviors to maintain fear,intimidation, power, and control.

According to the OklahomaState Bureau of Investigation,there were 25,189 reports ofdomestic violence in the state in2009, an increase of just over 14percent since 2000. The statesaw a nearly 18 percent increasein domestic violence murders in2009 with a total of 60 deaths. The Oklahoma Domestic Vio-lence Fatality Review Boardfound that nearly 55 percent ofthe victims were female and justover 70 percent of the perpetra-tors were male. Over half of thevictims were current or formerintimate partners, and there wasevidence of prior domestic vio-lence in nearly 80 percent of thecases.

“This bill will help give indi-viduals, especially women, a wayto check out possible partnersbefore they get involved in a po-tentially dangerous relationship,”said Johnson. “It’s extremelyhard to get out of an abusive re-lationship as was evidenced bythe more than forty percent ofOklahomans who were killed in2009 in domestic violence caseswhile in the process of leavingtheir partner. Adding domesticviolence information to this da-tabase will prevent future unnec-essary abuse and deaths.”

Johnson went on to point outthat according to the NationalCoalition Against Domestic Vio-lence, one in every four womenwill experience domestic violencein her lifetime and an estimated1.3 million women are victims ofphysical assault by an intimatepartner each year.

Thanks to the men andwomen plowing the roads andhighways. May God keep yousafe.