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Volume 112 No. 41 75 Cents Thursday January 13, 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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Tue. Jan. 4 45 7Wed. Jan. 5 56 15Thurs. Jan. 6 62 16Fri. Jan. 7 51 55Sat. Jan. 8 55 17Sun. Jan. 9 39 15Mon. Jan. 10 22 - 4MARKETSWheat $7.191Milo $5.23Corn $5.83 (spot prices subject to change)

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ATTENTION!!!

THIS DAY IN HISTORYJAN. 13

The Cimarron CountyChamber of Commerce willmeet at noon on Jan. 17 atthe Dairy Queen.

Please check yourAGPermit/SMX card tomake sure you renew itbefore it expires. We havebeen informed by the Okla-homa Tax Commission, thatit will take 4-6 weeks forthese to be processed.Patricia Hiner, CimarronCounty Assessor

BRUCE MCMENAMY- 56ROBERT LOOFBOURROW- 56

1913 Ralph Edwards Me-rino CO, TV host (This isYour Life)1919 Robert Stack Los An-geles CA, actor (EliotNess-Untouchables, Air-plane, Unsolved Myster-ies)1930 Frances SternhagenWashington DC, actress(Outland, Starting Over)(The Closer)1948 T Bone’ Burnettrocker1961 Julia Louis-DreyfusNew York City NY, come-dienne (SNL, Seinfeld, Dayby Day, Soul Man, Troll)1966 Patrick DempseyLewiston ME, actor (Mike-Fast Times, 20,000Leagues Under the Sea,Can’t Buy Me Love, FaceThe Music) (Gray’sAnatomy)1966 Tabitha Stevens fic-tional character (Be-witched)

1906 1st radio set adver-tised (Telimco for $7.50 inScientific American)claimed to receive signalsup to one mile1920 New York Times edi-torial (falsely) reports rock-ets can never fly1930 “Mickey Mouse”comic strip 1st appears1942 Henry Ford patents amethod of constructingplastic auto bodies (madefrom soy beans)1943 Hitler declares “To-tal War”1943 US infantry capturesGalloping Horse-ridgeGuadalcanal1957 Wham-O Companyproduces the 1st Frisbee1968 Beginning of Tet-of-fensive in Vietnam1979 YMCA files libel suitagainst Village People’sYMCA song1998 CBS pays $4 billion totelevise AFC games for 8-years

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

1-5Bryan Andrew Wayne- pos-session of marijuana andparaphernalia

1-6Larry Reyes- grand larceny,held on a bond of $25,000.

1-11Matt Driscoll- Servingtime.

A Cimarron County volunteer fireman puts water on ablaze southeast of Boise City Friday afternoon. The firesoon involved several cars being salvaged. It spreadthrough the grass and caught a camp trailer afire.

M.J. Alexander has publisheda second book honoring Okla-homa citizens. This book, “Por-trait of a Generation, The Chil-dren of Oklahoma, Sons andDaughters of the Red Earth”features 250 Oklahomans from50 of the 77 counties. Of those250, 12 are children of CimarronCounty, east to west.

Alexander, in 2007, published“Salt of the Red Earth” featur-ing those Oklahomans at or near100 years old. She took the pic-tures and washed them with acopper wash, giving the photosthe look of the 19th century.

For this book she traveled thestate, racking up about 11,000miles, and photographed childrenas artists, survivors, (one sur-vived the Murrah Building in1995), and from large cities andsmall towns.

They range from infants tothose on the cusp of adulthood.

She arrived in CimarronCounty one windy weekend inAugust, and photographedKeyes 4-Hers as she left thecounty early on a Sunday morn-ing.

From Cimarron County shefeatures, Rachel Durham,

Griggs and Keyes; the Keyes4-Hers, Jake Hitchings, JustonBalenseifen, Mary Fernando,Flores Mendoza, Shawn andShain Blackburn; from BoiseCity, Colt and Remington Axtell,Kaley Walls-LeGrand; fromFelt, Halie and Austin Waters.

For Durham, Alexander usedas a backdrop, a weatheredbarn standing in a field, and thepicture evokes Andrew Wyeth’sfamous 1948 picture,“Christina’s World.”

When shooting the Waterssiblings, Alexander again used aweathered building, and thoughAustin hasn’t a pitch fork, theimmediate thought is of GrantWood’s famous “AmericanGothic”.

The book, and Alexanderhave been featured on KFOR,channel 15 from Oklahoma City,and a video can be seen atwww.sliceok.com/portrait .Watch closely you’ll see peopleyou know.

The book is coffee table size,can be purchased from Slice, orAmazon for $65 plus shipping.Part of the sale of each bookwill help finance the Boys andGirls Clubs of Oklahoma City.

By C.F. David

Oklahoma City Author HonorsOklahoma Youth, 12 CountyKids Make an Appearance

AT TOP, BOOK COVER, ABOVE, RACHEL DURHAM

PORTRAIT OF AGENERATION!!

Letter to the editorI would like to personally

thank Cimarron CountySheriff’s Deputies Nathan Cobband Derek Kincannon and OHPTroopers Brandon Bussey andDuane Johnson for the great jobthey did in responding to the in-cident that happened near BlackMesa State Park on July 2, 2010.Men like this put their life on theline to serve and protect the lawabiding citizens of this greatcountry. These Fine Law Offic-ers did an outstanding job oncatching these individuals. Ifthey had not caught them andarrested them they might havekilled the next person that theyshot at.

Doug Mills

Kansas ManThanks LocalDeputies, Troopers

Though this is a letter tothe editor, the incident thatis cited and happened to thisman and his family was on thefront page of The Boise CityNews. It seems fitting thathis letter also make the frontpage-Editor.

By C.F. DavidMax Shilstone, Director of

Business Development for theHouston, Texas based CleanLine Energy told The Boise CityNews on Friday that the com-pany was planning to seek util-ity status in Oklahoma so theycould hook on to wind-drivenenergy about 15 miles fromHitchland, Texas and send elec-tricity some 800 miles to Mem-phis, Tenn. And the TennesseeValley Authority, the T.V.A.

The line, with its Texas countypoint of origin, would be dubbedthe Plains and Eastern CleanLine.

They hope to begin construc-tion on the line in about 2013,have completion in 2016. How-ever, at the same time they hopeto construct what Shilstone re-ferred to as satellite collectionpoints anywhere from 30 to 50miles away from the line.

“Our transmission design is tocollect wind generated energyfrom projects 30 to 50 miles inradius. We hope to pull fromsouthwest Kansas, CimarronCounty and Texas County,”Shilstone explained.

Shilstone added that thetransmission project will be de-signed to transport energy non-stop and will connect to the T.V.Ajust north of Memphis.

“There will be no stop off.We’ll go straight from Guymon

Clean Line Energy PlansLine From Texas Countyto Memphis, Tenn.

to Memphis,” he said.“The plan is to harvest and

transport renewable energy.”He explained that the energy

will have to be converted fromA.C, (Alternating Current), toD.C., (Direct Current), for trans-portation.

“We understand the develop-mental needs in CimarronCounty. We want to tie in toHitchland and try to build thesatellite substations so that winddevelopers can meet us half-way.”

Shilstone explained that theproject is in the early stages ofdevelopment. The company isslated to appear Jan. 19-21 be-fore the Oklahoma CorporationCommission and would appre-ciate any input citizens ofCimarron County could give thecommission that would helpClean Line.

“It is critical we are filed withthe O.C.C. as a utility. We needthe utility status.”

“We have issued a land own-ers bill of rights on offering pay-ments and negotiations,”Shilstone added.

“It is our mission to be trans-parent; our website is designedso that landowners can under-stand. Cimarron County hasneeds…we get it. Go towww.plainsandeasterncleanline.com;or call me at 832-319-6332,”Shilstone said.

By C.F. DavidLarry Reyes, of Boise City

has been arrested and jailed forgrain theft.

Reyes is being held on a bondof $25 thousand in the CimarronCounty jail.

According to CimarronCounty Sheriff Keith Borth, theincident is under investigation byUndersheriff Chip Jones.

Borth added that at least sixsemi-trailer loads of grain weretaken from the Boise City Co-Op and sold to the Elkhart Co-Op at their Keyes and Elkhart,Kansas locations.

Borth said the dollar value ofthe stolen grain is at about$33,000 at present, and that it isstill being investigated if Reyeshas accomplices.

Local Arrestedin Grain Theft

MEMORIAL FUNDHONORS BCHS GRAD

To honor the life and legacyof a beloved classmate, the BoiseCity High School Class of 1991is continuing the Judd MillerMemorial Fund. The fund isaimed to support the CimarronCounty Livestock Show, prima-rily with the intention of provid-ing the Junior and/or Senior BeefShowmanship buckles annually.

A class representative will at-tempt to purchase the buckles,financed by the fund, at the an-nual auction Jan. 11. However,contributions can be made to thefund year-round.

Judd Miller attended BoiseCity schools from kindergartenthrough 12th grade. He was in-volved in Cub Scouts and BoyScouts, earning the rank of EagleScout. He participated in 4-H andFuture Farmers of America, andserved his class as Student Coun-cil Representative. He also was amember of St. Paul’s UnitedMethodist Church where he wasinvolved in the youth group. Hedied in late 2004 at age 31.

Miller was a devoted husbandand father. At his sudden death,he left behind his wife, Deha;three daughters, Sarah, Maggieand Dallie; extended family; andmany friends.

The Class of 1991 has cho-sen to support the livestock showwith the fund to honor thememory of their lifelong friendwho participated in the eventduring his school years, and alsoto express to his family the valueof that friendship. His friends alsohope the buckles will be a tan-gible reminder of the memory ofMiller for the recipients; he wasa man who appreciated animals,loved life and lived it to the full-est.

Those interested in contrib-uting to the fund can give theirdonations to the Judd Miller Me-morial Fund at the First StateBank in Boise City; or memorialdonations can be sent to the fundin care of Wes Woolman, HCR 2Box 79, Boise City, OK 73933.

By C.F. DavidObesity has been for some

time the number one health con-cern. This is because it eitherbrings on or aggravates suchmedical problems as hyperten-sion, heart problems and diabe-tes, all with a potential of death.Cimarron Memorial Clinic’sPhysician Assistant Carlton callsit a cascade of health issues thatcould lead to renal failure anddeath.

Weight loss is of course, sig-nificant health benefit and forthese reasons, CimarronCounty’s rural health clinic andP.A. Bruce Carlton, are startingup a weight loss program usingdiet, exercise and a long ac-cepted medical regimen.Carlton said these medicines aresafe, effective and commonlyused in weight reduction.

Carlton points out the pro-gram makes it much easier tolose weight than trying to doyourself, and helps you to estab-lish lifestyle changes that will benecessary to keep the weightoff.

How much you lose, and howfast will depend on each patient;

Cimarron County’s Rural Clinic isLaunching a Weight Loss Program

however Carlton is shooting forabout five pounds a month,pointing out that losing weighttoo fast can be harmful. Headded that losing weight slowlyalso helps re-enforce thelifestyle changes. The fivepounds a month will add up toabout thirty pounds in six monthsand sixty in a year.

Cimarron Memorial CEOLee Hughes said that the hospi-tal might look for a space tomake an exercise area andthose items such as an ellipticalexerciser, Bowflex and free-weights are available to be do-nated along with any other un-used equipment in the area. Thisequipment could make the ex-ercise program much easier tofollow and offer other physicalbenefits, such as body toning,and easing joint issues with ar-thritis, to name a few.

Carlton and Hughes said thatdepending from patient to pa-tient, some insurance coverageas well as Medicare coveragemight be available.

The initial charge for the pro-gram will be $100, with $50 amonth for follow-up sessionswhile in the program.

UNION COUNTY SEARCH CALLED OFFA weekend search for David

Montoya, 48, of rural UnionCounty was called off on Mon-day due to a manpower short-age and snow. Montoya is re-ported to have threatened sui-cide and having left a ranch nearDes Moines.

Law officials from Union

County, joined by CimarronCounty deputies made thesearch. Dep. Nathan Cobb andcivilian Rusty Rippitoe took mul-tipurpose dogs to aid in thesearch and Cimarron Countymade the loan of their commandcenter trailer.

“If you can’t change yourfate, change your attitude.”- Amy Tan