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50 cents www.tahlequahdailypress.com Tahlequah, OK 2 sections, 16 pages WEDNESDAY FEB. 9, 2011 BANKRUPTCY FOR STATES: Local lawmakers think it’s a bad idea. 3A LOCAL Two from area booked for drugs Sequoyah County authorities arrested two people last Friday during the service of a search warrant near Muldrow. PAGE 2A Charges filed after purse theft Felony charges were filed Monday against two Tahlequah residents. PAGE 2A ‘All’ really should feel the pain During her first State of the State address, Gov. Mary Fallin announced that expected budget cuts would become reality, say- ing: “All of us will have to do more with less.” Exactly how her plan will unfold, and whether she means “all” in the traditional sense, remains to be seen. PAGE 4A Local dancers excel at audition Two students of Tahle- quah Ballet’s Performing Arts Academy auditioned for the prestious Joffrey Ballet’s summer work- shops at The Dance and Performing Arts Academy of Tulsa Sunday, Jan. 23. PAGE 7A NSU coach talks about recruiting Northeastern State football coach Kenny Evans talked about his 2011 recruiting class on Tuesday. PAGE 1B STATE GOP lawmakers push lawsuit Republican Gov. Mary Fallin and GOP leaders said Tuesday they’re com- mitted to overhauling Okla- homa’s workers’ compen- sation. PAGE 5A Panel’s legality under scrutiny The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission. PAGE 5A FOCUS 6 9711390510 2 WEATHER Wednesday night: Mainly clear, frigid, -1 degree. PAGE 5A Volume XLVIII, Number 28 LOCAL . . . . . . . . . . . .3A COMMENTARY . . . .4A FEATURES . . . . . . . . 6A ENTERTAINMENT . .7A LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . .8A SPORTS . . . . . . .1B-3B FAITH . . . . . . . . . . .4B-5B CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . 7B-8B INSIDE ENLOW , NICHOLS IN RUNOFF By BOB GIBBINS Press Staff Writer The race to be Tahle- quah’s next mayor is headed to an April 5 runoff, but vot- ers elected one new city councilor and re-elected an incumbent. Ward 1 Councilor Jason Nichols fell less than 10 votes short of winning the three-man mayoral race out- right. Nichols received 836 votes while Todd Enlow gar- nered 731, and David Kauf- man took 117 votes. Nichols and Enlow will square off in the runoff. Linda Spyres won the Ward 4 race by a 163-145 margin over JoAnn Bradley, the incumbent, who squeezed past Spyres four years ago by a two-vote mar- gin. In the race for Ward 3 councilor, incumbent Mau- rice Turney easily outdis- tanced Bob Moon, 416-98, to retain his seat on the council. Nichols and Enlow both blamed the recent inclement weather on a lower-than- expected turnout. Both also said they were pleased with the outcome and felt confi- dent about their chances to win the runoff. “I want to thank all of the people who gave me their support and vote today,” Nichols said. “I’m asking them to vote for me again on April 5.” Nichols said the weather should be much better by the time of the runoff. “Hopefully, people will be able to come out and vote in their shorts and T-shirts,” Enlow said of the runoff. “I want to thank all of the peo- By JOSH NEWTON Press Staff Writer Voters in the Tahlequah, Keys and Hulbert districts gave the boot to school board incumbents Tuesday, and Keys voters approved nearly $3 million in school bond issues, according to unoffi- cial election results. In the Tahlequah I-35 Board of Edu- cation election, Shannon Pinson received approximately 54 percent of the vote, compared to incumbent Anne Cottrill’s 46 percent. Keys voters opted to seat Tina Hinds at the board table, giving Hinds about 56 percent of the vote, compared to incum- bent Randy Jones’ 44 percent. In Hulbert, Marty Wynn garnered about 54 percent of the vote, compared to incumbent Matt Walls’ 33 percent and candidate Sharon Mullins’ 13 percent. Woodall voters elected Anthony Cor- nell to the school board there, giving Cor- nell about 82 percent of the vote, while Spyres, Turney get nod for council slots Keys bond passes; Pinson gives Cottrill the boot in I-35 By BOB GIBBINS Press Staff Writer A reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of the intruders responsible for a home inva- sion last week. The Eastern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force is offering the monetary reward, but the exact amount has not been determined. The task force consists of representatives of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, District 27 Drug Task Force and the Tahlequah and Muskogee police departments. By JOSH NEWTON Press Staff Writer HULBERT – Patrons looking to check out a book or video or use a computer won’t be able to do that at the Hulbert Community Public Library over the next few days. The library was shuttered Tuesday as a precaution, and it will remain closed for an undetermined length of time. “We closed the library temporarily due to concern about the weight of snow on the roof,” said Kathleen Ryan, small branch coordi- nator at the Eastern Okla- homa District Library Sys- tem based in Muskogee. Ryan said the roof of the building has not collapsed, though rumors of such an incident had been circulat- ing. Library officials are concerned that additional weight from an expected snowstorm Tuesday night and into Wednesday could further damage the roof or ceiling inside the facility. Ryan said Cherokee County District 2 Commis- sioner Bobby Botts suggest- Concerns over snow, ice on roof prompt Hulbert library closure The gutters on the Hulbert Public Library are already warped from the weight of snow, and officials worry the strain of more ice and snow could damage the roof. Photo by Josh Newton Reward offered for information on home invasion See Library, page 2A See Reward, page 2A Students of Tahle- quah Public Schools will be expected in class this Friday, if weather allows. Classes had original- ly been canceled for par- ent-teacher conference activities Friday morn- ing, but last week’s snow storm caused stu- dents to miss five days of school in a row. Parent-teacher con- ferences have now been scheduled for March 10- 11, and school officials say Friday, Feb. 11, will I-35 students due in class Friday, if school open See Class, page 2A Tahlequah mayoral candidate Todd Enlow, left, and wife, Lori, look over election returns. Photo by Teddye Snell See Keys, page 2A Ward 1 Councilor, and mayoral candidate, Jason Nichols points out some election totals to his daughter, Cara, and wife, Jennifer. Nichols narrowly missed winning the mayor election outright Tuesday and will face challenger Todd Enlow in an April 5 runoff. The winner will succeed Ken Purdy, who chose not to seek re-election. Photo by Bob Gibbins See Runoff, page 2A

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WEDNESDAY

FEB. 9, 2011

BANKRUPTCY FOR STATES: Local lawmakers think it’s a bad idea. 3A

LOCAL

Two from areabooked for drugs

Sequoyah Countyauthorities arrested twopeople last Friday duringthe service of a searchwarrant near Muldrow.

PAGE 2A

Charges filedafter purse theft

Felony charges werefiled Monday against twoTahlequah residents.

PAGE 2A

‘All’ really shouldfeel the pain

During her first State ofthe State address, Gov.Mary Fallin announcedthat expected budget cutswould become reality, say-ing: “All of us will have todo more with less.” Exactlyhow her plan will unfold,and whether she means“all” in the traditionalsense, remains to beseen.

PAGE 4A

Local dancersexcel at audition

Two students of Tahle-quah Ballet’s PerformingArts Academy auditionedfor the prestious JoffreyBallet’s summer work-shops at The Dance andPerforming Arts Academyof Tulsa Sunday, Jan. 23.

PAGE 7A

NSU coach talksabout recruiting

Northeastern Statefootball coach KennyEvans talked about his2011 recruiting class onTuesday.

PAGE 1B

STATE

GOP lawmakerspush lawsuit

Republican Gov. MaryFallin and GOP leaderssaid Tuesday they’re com-mitted to overhauling Okla-homa’s workers’ compen-sation.

PAGE 5A

Panel’s legalityunder scrutiny

The OklahomaSupreme Court heard oralarguments Tuesday in alawsuit that challenges theconstitutionality of thestate’s Judicial NominatingCommission.

PAGE 5A

FOCUS

6 9 71 1 3 9 0 51 0 2

WEATHERWednesday night:Mainly clear, frigid,

-1 degree.PAGE 5A

Volume XLVIII, Number 28

� LOCAL . . . . . . . . . . . .3A� COMMENTARY . . . .4A� FEATURES . . . . . . . . 6A� ENTERTAINMENT . .7A� LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . .8A� SPORTS . . . . . . .1B-3B� FAITH . . . . . . . . . . .4B-5B� CLASSIFIEDS . . . . .7B-8B

INSIDE

ENLOW, NICHOLS IN RUNOFF

By BOB GIBBINSPress Staff Writer

The race to be Tahle-quah’s next mayor is headedto an April 5 runoff, but vot-ers elected one new citycouncilor and re-elected anincumbent.

Ward 1 Councilor JasonNichols fell less than 10votes short of winning thethree-man mayoral race out-right. Nichols received 836votes while Todd Enlow gar-nered 731, and David Kauf-man took 117 votes. Nicholsand Enlow will square off inthe runoff.

Linda Spyres won theWard 4 race by a 163-145margin over JoAnn Bradley,the incumbent, whosqueezed past Spyres fouryears ago by a two-vote mar-gin.

In the race for Ward 3

councilor, incumbent Mau-rice Turney easily outdis-tanced Bob Moon, 416-98, toretain his seat on the council.

Nichols and Enlow bothblamed the recent inclementweather on a lower-than-expected turnout. Both alsosaid they were pleased withthe outcome and felt confi-dent about their chances towin the runoff.

“I want to thank all of thepeople who gave me theirsupport and vote today,”Nichols said. “I’m askingthem to vote for me again onApril 5.”

Nichols said the weathershould be much better by thetime of the runoff.

“Hopefully, people willbe able to come out and votein their shorts and T-shirts,”Enlow said of the runoff. “Iwant to thank all of the peo-

By JOSH NEWTONPress Staff Writer

Voters in the Tahlequah, Keys andHulbert districts gave the boot to schoolboard incumbents Tuesday, and Keysvoters approved nearly $3 million inschool bond issues, according to unoffi-cial election results.

In the Tahlequah I-35 Board of Edu-cation election, Shannon Pinson receivedapproximately 54 percent of the vote,compared to incumbent Anne Cottrill’s

46 percent.Keys voters opted to seat Tina Hinds at

the board table, giving Hinds about 56percent of the vote, compared to incum-bent Randy Jones’ 44 percent.

In Hulbert, Marty Wynn garneredabout 54 percent of the vote, compared toincumbent Matt Walls’ 33 percent andcandidate Sharon Mullins’ 13 percent.

Woodall voters elected Anthony Cor-nell to the school board there, giving Cor-nell about 82 percent of the vote, while

Spyres, Turney getnod for council slots

Keys bond passes; Pinsongives Cottrill the boot in I-35

By BOB GIBBINSPress Staff Writer

A reward is being offeredfor information that leads tothe arrest of the intrudersresponsible for a home inva-sion last week.

The Eastern OklahomaViolent Crimes Task Force isoffering the monetaryreward, but the exact amounthas not been determined.

The task force consists ofrepresentatives of the Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco andFirearms, Cherokee CountySheriff’s Office, District 27Drug Task Force and theTahlequah and Muskogeepolice departments.

By JOSH NEWTONPress Staff Writer

HULBERT – Patronslooking to check out a bookor video or use a computerwon’t be able to do that atthe Hulbert CommunityPublic Library over the nextfew days.

The library was shutteredTuesday as a precaution,and it will remain closed foran undetermined length oftime.

“We closed the librarytemporarily due to concernabout the weight of snow onthe roof,” said KathleenRyan, small branch coordi-nator at the Eastern Okla-homa District Library Sys-tem based in Muskogee.

Ryan said the roof of thebuilding has not collapsed,though rumors of such anincident had been circulat-ing. Library officials are

concerned that additionalweight from an expectedsnowstorm Tuesday nightand into Wednesday couldfurther damage the roof or

ceiling inside the facility.Ryan said Cherokee

County District 2 Commis-sioner Bobby Botts suggest-

Concerns over snow, ice on roofprompt Hulbert library closure

The gutters on the Hulbert Public Library are alreadywarped from the weight of snow, and officials worry thestrain of more ice and snow could damage the roof.

Photo by Josh Newton

Rewardoffered forinformationon homeinvasion See Library, page 2A

See Reward, page 2A

Students of Tahle-quah Public Schoolswill be expected in classthis Friday, if weatherallows.

Classes had original-ly been canceled for par-ent-teacher conferenceactivities Friday morn-ing, but last week’ssnow storm caused stu-dents to miss five daysof school in a row.

Parent-teacher con-ferences have now beenscheduled for March 10-11, and school officialssay Friday, Feb. 11, will

I-35 studentsdue in classFriday, ifschool open

See Class, page 2A

Tahlequah mayoral candidate Todd Enlow, left, andwife, Lori, look over election returns.

Photo by Teddye SnellSee Keys, page 2A

Ward 1 Councilor, and mayoral candidate, Jason Nichols points out some electiontotals to his daughter, Cara, and wife, Jennifer. Nichols narrowly missed winning themayor election outright Tuesday and will face challenger Todd Enlow in an April 5 runoff.The winner will succeed Ken Purdy, who chose not to seek re-election.

Photo by Bob Gibbins

See Runoff, page 2A

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ed the library be closed untilall snow and ice could beremoved from the roof. Shesaid Botts planned to sendDistrict 2 employees topower-wash the snow andice still on the roof Tuesdayfrom the last big storm.

Botts could not bereached for comment Tues-day.

According to Ryan,some ceiling tiles inside thelibrary had to be removed.

“There were no leaks,but apparently the ceiling

tiles were bulging, and thegutters along the outside ofthe building were badlydented from the ice that wason the roof,” said Ryan.“There was just some con-cern, so we decided bettersafe than sorry.”

Books, movies, comput-ers and other items insidehave been covered in plasticas an added precaution.

“At this point, there’sbeen no damage to the con-tents of the building,” saidRyan. “We anticipate open-

ing as soon as the next frontpasses and snow and ice areoff the roof.”

Ryan said patrons of thelibrary will not be fined forlate returns during the daysthe library is closed.

The building that housesHulbert’s communitylibrary is only about 2 yearsold. The new structure wasfunded through a combinedeffort with private donationsand monies from CherokeeCounty and the town ofHulbert. Rural Economic

Action Plan funds wereused in the building process.

Ryan said patrons of thelibrary can call the EODLSoffice in Muskogee at (918)683-2846 in the comingdays to ask if the facility hasreopened.

Signs were also postedon the front door Tuesday,and library’s automatedphone system provided amessage to callers that thelibrary had been closedbecause of storm damage.

Continued from page 1A

The agencies are poolingtheir resources in an attemptto solve the case of a homeinvasion at the J.D. Carey res-idence.

Carey and his wife werebound in their home by threemale suspects armed withknives. Their vehicle wastaken and later found aban-doned near a church on thenorthwest side of the city.

TPD Officer Brad Robert-

son, the department’s publicinformation liaison, said lastweek the suspects arebelieved to be in their lateteens or early 20s. He said thesuspects entered the homethrough the front door.

Anyone with informationshould contact TPD DetectiveJeff Haney at 456-8801 orUndersheriff Jason Chennaultat 456-2583.

Continued from page 1A

now be a regular, full schoolday for students, if the weath-er allows.

Classes at TPS were can-celed for Wednesday. Otherschools may also be closed,but those decisions had not

been made as of presstimeTuesday. Updates, as avail-able, will be published on theDaily Press website,www.tahlequahdailypress.com, and on the Press’Facebookpage, throughout the week.

Continued from page 1A

By BOB GIBBINSPress Staff Writer

Felony charges were filedMonday against two Tahle-quah residents in connectionwith an investigation bypolice.

Arrest warrants wereissued for Sarah Anne Weibeland Dustin Meigs Philpott,both of whom are accused ofgrand larceny and knowinglyconcealing stolen property.

Court documents state thetwo took a purse and contents

belonging to Diana Rouelland then concealed the itemsJan. 10.

Associate District JudgeMark Dobbins set bonds of$7,000 each on the arrestwarrants.

Grand larceny is punish-

able by imprisonment for upto five years or a year in thecounty jail and/or a fine of upto $5,000. The concealingstolen property count is pun-ishable by imprisonment forup to five years or a year inthe county jail and/or a fine

of up to $500.In another case, a woman

is free on a $3,000 bond afterbeing arrested on a conceal-ing stolen property charge.

Sarah Elaine Finch, 18,was formally charged Tues-day with knowingly conceal-

ing stolen property. Thecharge was filed after a TPDinvestigation.

Reports state that on Jan.10, she allegedly concealed aDell laptop computer takenfrom Shayla Jenkins Adamson Oct. 20.

Pair charged in wake of purse theft

By BOB GIBBINSPress Staff Writer

MULDROW – Sequoy-ah County authorities arrest-ed two people last Fridayduring the service of a searchwarrant near Muldrow.

Eddie Fordyce, 48, andRebecca Jones, 50, werebooked into the SequoyahCounty Jail at Sallisaw oncharges of endeavoring tomanufacture a controlled

drug, possession ofa controlled drugand possession ofparaphernalia.

Both have pre-vious felony con-victions and werejailed in lieu ofbonds totaling $100,000each.

District 27 Drug TaskForce agents joined Sequoy-ah County sheriff’s deputiesand Sallisaw police to serve

the searchwarrant.

A g e n t sfound plasticbaggies con-taining sub-stances ap -pearing to be

methamphetamine, alongwith items of paraphernaliacommonly associated withthe use of controlled drugs.

The Department of Cor-rections website shows both

have previous drugconvictions.

Fordyce left theDOC in September2010, and Jones leftin June 2008,records show.

Sequoyah CountySheriff Ron Lockhart saidthe sheriff’s office will con-tinue to aggressively pursueindividuals involved in ille-gal drugs in Sequoyah Coun-ty.

Two booked on drug charges

From Press staff reports

PORTER – An Indianaman was flown Monday to aTulsa hospital after crashingon the Muskogee Turnpike.

The man from Greenville,Ind., whose name was notreleased in Oklahoma High-way Patrol reports, sufferedhead and arm injuries and wasdriving.

Reports state he was driv-ing a 1996 Chevrolet Blazersouth on the turnpike when heattempted to take the Porter

exit ramp and failed to negoti-ate the curve. The vehicle leftthe road 147 feet beforerolling over and coming torest on its top.

The cause of the crash islisted as unsafe speed for acurve, and the 45-year-oldman’s condition is listed asapparently normal. It isunknown whether he waswearing a seat belt.

The crash was investigatedby OHP Trooper KennyKnight of the MuskogeeTurnpike detachment.

Man injured in crashon Muskogee turnpike

Cherokee County sher-iff’s deputies are investigat-ing a report of child abuse.

A 3-year-old boy is thealleged victim and reportedthe possible abuse to a fami-ly member. An initial reporthas been filed, and investi-gators are starting theirwork.

In an unrelated matter,Jeananna Hendricks said

Sunday someone burglar-ized her home.

ClarificationThe Sandra Hall listed in

the Feb. 6 Sheriff’s Beat asbeing an assault victim is notSandra M. Hall, co-owner ofHungry House Cafe andTahlequah Auto Salvage.

Child abuse reported

Tahlequah police reportsstate an area woman wasarrested in connection with atheft at Tahlequah City Hos-pital.

Jamie Pettit, 35, wasarrested in connection withthe theft.

Misty Rose, 37, was

booked Monday on Chero-kee County warrants and anew possession of marijuanacharge after officers did awelfare check on Fox andHillcrest.

Area woman arrested� Police Beat

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opponent Jerimy Joice tookonly 18 percent.

Shady Grove voters alsoelected a new school boardmember in Lea Arnall, whotook about 61 percent of thevote, compared to opponentLarry Dale Moore’s 39 per-cent.

Both proposals for bondissues at Keys, totaling just

shy of $3 million, wereapproved by patrons.

“I’m very excited,” saidKeys Superintendent JerryHood.“We want to thank allthe people who voted, andthe Keys Parent-TeacherOrganization. They did a lotof work for us. I’ve alreadygot the architect, and it willprobably be July before the

money comes in.”Hood said the district was

also previously approved fora stimulus grant that will payinterest for $2.2 million ofthe bonds, which will allowmore money to be spent onschool improvements.

Keys voters approvedboth bonds by more than 65percent.

Approximately $2.5 mil-lion will be used for upgrad-ed elementary facilities, anew seventh- and eighth-grade center, and new class-rooms and a science lab atthe high school.

A $300,000 bond will befor four new buses to replaceworn-out route buses

Continued from page 1A

FORDYCE JONES

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — Legislative leaders inthe House and Senate areplanning to cancel the sessionon Wednesday and Thursdaybecause of an incoming win-ter storm.

A spokeswoman forHouse Speaker Kris Steelesaid Tuesday lawmakersdecided to cancel the legisla-tive session because forecast-ers are predicting up to 10inches of snow and brutally

cold temperatures. Lawmak-ers are expected to return tothe Capitol next week.

This is the first week of thelegislative session, and Steeleexpressed concerns becauseof the long distances manymembers travel to get to thestate Capitol. A winter stormwarning is in effect for nearlyall of Oklahoma throughWednesday, with strongwinds that are expected toresult in low visibility.

Legislature cancels session

Reward

Class

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Keys

ple who have supported mein this election and hope fortheir continued support.”

Turney also said theweather played a role, butsaid he thinks the turnout inhis ward was better than fouryears ago when he defeatedMoon for the first time.

“I want to thank the peo-ple who supported me in this

election and who have sup-ported me for the last fouryears,” he said.

Spyres said she was verypleased with results in theWard 4 race. She will be thesecond member of theSpyres household to repre-sent the ward on the citycouncil.

Her husband, Lloyd, was

Ward 4 councilor in the ‘90s.“I’m going to do what I

said I was going to do,”Spyres said. “I’m going toschedule a [ward] meetingbefore I take the oath ofoffice and find out what peo-ple in the ward are thinkingand what they want from meas a councilor.”

Spyres also thanked

everyone who gave theirtime, vote and financial sup-port to her campaign. Shesaid so many people wereenthused about her candida-cy and urged her on duringthe campaign.

The results are not offi-cial until Friday. The termfor the new mayor and coun-cilors will begin May 2.

Continued from page 1A

Supporters for mayoral candidate Todd Enlow visited at his watch party Tuesday night. Attendees included,from left: Suzanne Drywater, Mark and Julie Skinner, and Twila Pennington. Photo by Teddye Snell

Runoff

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� GOP lawmakers atthe federal level arediscussing introducinglegislation that wouldallows states todeclare bankruptcy.By TEDDYE SNELLPress Staff Writer

Oklahoma is facing a$600 million budget shortfallthis year, and lawmakers arebeing asked to trim fat wher-ever possible.

Often, when a business oran individual runs into seri-ous financial trouble, bank-ruptcy is a consideration. Butsince states are consideredsovereign under the U.S.Constitution, they are pre-vented from receiving feder-al bankruptcy protection.

In late January, NewtGingrich – the former speak-er of the House of Represen-tatives, who remains a pow-erful figure among Republi-cans – announced legislationallowing states to declarebankruptcy would likely beintroduced in Congress with-in the next month.

In an interview withReuters, Gingrich said ifpassed, the law would helpstates handle long-termbudget problems.

Many states, includingOklahoma, have been recipi-ents of funds through the$814 billion economic stim-ulus plan passed in 2009. Butlawmakers fear Congressmay be asked to step in againto aid foundering states thathave yet to recover from therecession; hence the attrac-tiveness of bankruptcy.

One of the largest prob-

lems Oklahoma faces isfunding the state’s pensionsystem, which – according toa recent report by the Associ-ated Press – is an unfundedliability of $16 million.

Filing for bankruptcywould allow the state torenege on its pension prom-ises and other obligations tostate employees. Accordingto Howard Cure, director ofmunicipal research at Ever-core Wealth Management inNew York, under bankrupt-cy, an employer can negatelabor contract provisions,and state bankruptcy mayprovide the state an avenuewith which to apply pressureto public employee serviceunions to negotiate.

In her State of the Stateaddress Monday, Gov. MaryFallin asked lawmakers tooverhaul the state’s pension

system, along with trimming$68.5 million from publiceducation, $30.1 millionfrom higher education, and$12 million from the Depart-ment of Corrections.

State Sen. Jim Wilson, D-Tahlequah, said Gingrichand others watched largecorporations break pensionagreements during the 2008financial crisis, and are try-ing to follow suit.

“These guys sure getexcited,” said Wilson. “Theysee corporations like GMbreaking pension funds andthey decide they can do it,too. They hate governmentemployees, state employees,when all the time they couldpay for pension shortages.[Retireees] aren’t gettingwealthy from pensionfunds.”

Wilson said proponents of

the measure think they’regoing to divert pensions tostock, but it’s implausible.

“We fixed [pensions]more than once, by putting$575 million a year into it,and unfortunately that does-n’t seem to be enoughbecause of the downturn inthe stocks,” he said. “It’steacher retirement that’s aproblem, because of thenumber of people in the sys-tem. It can be good again;I’m not concerned about it.They say we need to be 80percent funded to be solid,and we’re inching our waythere. It may take 40 years toget there, but we can do it. Itcomes down to whether theywant to beat people out oftheir pensions.”

Linda Hampton, vicepresident of the OklahomaEducation Association, said

teachers have been providedretirement through a vote ofthe people.

“Oklahomans voted toestablish the Teacher Retire-ment System through a con-stitutional amendment,” saidHampton. “We believe filingbankruptcy would not relievethe state of its obligation.Oklahomans have a greatdeal of pride, and trying toget out of a responsibility inthis manner would not beacceptable to them.”

Wilson said the currentstate administration andleadership don’t want to raisetaxes on the rich.

“They don’t want tospend any money,” said Wil-son. “They want to use it fortax cuts for rich people, notpoor people. It kills them tothink we might have to spendsome of that money. Whatthey see is the liability, andthey know they’ll have toraise taxes. The six or eightwealthiest people in the statedon’t want to pay for it. If webuy into this bankruptcything we’ll just be devastat-ed.”

State Rep. Mike Brown,D-Tahlequah, agrees withWilson.

“If states find a way to dothis, it will be a nightmare,”said Brown. “For a state toget out of its pension obliga-tions is wrong.”

Brown said he has nodoubt the state pension sys-tem has been abused, andthat some retired legislatorshave tripled their benefits,but declaring bankruptcy isnot the way to solve theproblem.

“I would hope this is justa scare tactic by Gingrich tobust the larger bargaining

groups, which is a possibili-ty,” said Brown.

“I think we need to stepforward and possibly look atthose on pensions and maybemove to a 401(k) system fornew people and find a way tograndfather in those alreadyin the system. But there’s noneed to wreck everyone’spension plan to gain morepower.”

Brown said larger statesoppose the bankruptcy issuefor the same reasons largecorporations avoid it when-ever possible.

“It’s harder for largerentities, because of the costof restructuring,” saidBrown. “It’s an easier mind-set for a small state to saywe’ll walk away from ourdebt and in 10 years be heldharmless, but it would havea domino effect across thecountry. It would just be atotal nightmare.”

Jim Cheek, employee forthe Crowne Plaza Hotel inTulsa and formerly a Musko-gee resident, is completelyopposed to the idea thatstates have a bankruptcyoption.

“The states, cities, coun-ties and the federal govern-ment need to learn to livelike everyone else,” saidCheek. “You only spendwhat you can afford, nomore!”

Tahlequah resident TonyaSappington thinks the sug-gestion is ludicrous.

“I would say the federalgovernment has us rightwhere they want us,” saidSappington. “Thinking theU.S. is broke and cannothelp. Hey, I have an idea.How about giving them all araise for their good work.”

Court ReportWarranty Deeds

Rosalie Owens to EricLawhorn et ux

Raymond A. Mussatto etux to Raymond A. MussattoTrustee et ux

Mildred Collins to KarenAnn Boswell et al

FeloniesWilliam Lee Everett --

unauthorized use of vehicleSarah Anne Weibel --

grand larceny, knowinglyconcealing stolen property

Dustin Meigs Philpott --grand larceny, knowinglyconcealing stolen property

Sarah Elaine Finch --knowingly concealing stolenproperty

Tammy Stand -- DUI,child endangerment

MisdemeanorsCameron Christie --

domestic abuseJohnathan Ray Glass --

public drunkJessica Crawford --

assault and batteryCorey Allen Taylor -- DUIJohnny Lee Morton III --

aggravated DUIGary Dean Gibson --

DUIJoe Turner -- aggravated

DUIRobert Steve Leppke --

assault and battery

CivilsEmployers Insurance of

Wausau vs. John P. BodeWells Fargo Bank vs.

Johnny JacksonOcwen Loan Servicing

vs. Elizabeth Louise Spriggs-- foreclosure

Citibank vs. HershelSands -- foreclosure

Household Finance Co.vs. Kenyatta T. Wright --foreclosure

Credit Bureau ServicesAssociation vs. MatthewDonald Spears

Credit Bureau ServicesAssociation vs. CaseyChambers

Credit Bureau ServicesAssociation vs. BarbaraSurber

Small ClaimsCasey Rowe vs. Patsey

Sweet -- entry and detainerMarriages

Lewis Gifford Davis, 30,Tahlequah and Alicia LoletteSanford, 32, Tahlequah

Death NoticesCAREY, Willie G.

“Pigeon”, 65, Tahlequahmusician. Died Feb. 6. Ser-vices 10 a.m. Feb. 11 atGreen Country FuneralChapel. Green CountryFuneral Home, Tahlequah.

SCHAFFLER, Stanley,

59. Tahlequah, NSU custo-dian. Died Feb. 6. Servicespending with Green Coun-try Funeral Home, Tahle-quah.

WARREN, BobbyCharles Sr., 74, formerly ofHulbert, geophysicist forExxon/Mobil. Died Feb. 4 inGarland, Texas. Services 2p.m. Feb. 11 at Reed-CulverChapel. Reed-Culver Funer-al Home, Tahlequah.

BALLARD, Henry F.“Hank”,74. Tahlequah con-struction worker. Died Feb.6. No services planned at

this time. Reed-CulverFuneral Home, Tahlequah.

AYALA, Jesse, 58, Tahle-quah. Died Feb. 6 in Okla-homa City. Services 10 a.m.Feb. 11 at Reed-CulverChapel. Reed-Culver Funer-al Home, Tahlequah.

FITE, Helen, 101. Tahle-quah homemaker. Died Feb.7. Services pending withReed-Culver Funeral Home,Tahlequah.

SCHWINN, Lois, 94,Tahlequah. Died Feb. 6.Services pending, HartFuneral Home, Tahlequah.

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TAHLEQUAH –Karen Marie Thompsonwas born on Feb. 21, 1943in Tulsa and died on Jan.31 in Tahlequah at age 67.

She is survived by hercompanion, John Osburnof Tahlequah; sons, RoyThompson and wifeSharon of Tahle-quah; JohnOsburn and wifeJessica of Tahle-quah; CurtisOsburn ofSpringdale, Ark.;Danny Osburn ofB e n t o n v i l l e ,Ark.; daughters, LaMaeFisher and husband Math-ew of Tahlequah; PeggyBowles and husband Johnof Bixby; Meachelle Jonesand husband Ryan of Sali-na; Mary Hixon and hus-band Mike of Pea Ridge,Ark.; Jeannie Ham and

husband David of Sum-mers, Ark.; Doris AnnNinns of Texas; CherryJohnson and husbandRoger of Ketchum; broth-ers, Howard Medford andwife Dee of Tulsa; CalvinMedford and wife Darleneof Jenks; sister, MaeRogers of Tahlequah andmany grandchildren andnumerous great-grandchil-dren.

Karen is preceded indeath by her parents, Rayand Delphia Medford, herson, her brother and two

nephews. Karen was

CMA for HomeHealth Care andattended the FreeWill BaptistChurch. Service areat 1 p.m. Thursday,Feb. 10, at Rocky

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The ice, snow and sleetthat paralyzed American avia-tion last week forced upon metwo extra days in tropicalPuerto Rico. Somehow Imanaged. And so did thelegions of other Americansand Canadians sharing stories of canceledflights as they contentedly drank cafe conleche in the warm sun of Plaza de Colon.

The bonus days were passed in a trulybilingual world, where signage, conversationsand television fell into a jumble of English andSpanish. One had to smile at the tense com-plaints up north about the English languagelosing its primacy. “The U.S. is an English-speaking country,” you hear, “and darn it, peo-ple who come here should adjust.” Fairenough. But spend some time in Puerto Rico,even outside the tourist districts, and you see aSpanish-speaking society that’s been pressedto change its language for over 100 years.

Puerto Rico is not a state, but its people areU.S. citizens. The currency, post offices andfederal courts are American. But the PuertoRican people have been Spanish speakerssince the conquistadors colonized the island500 years ago. Throughout their close andcomplicated relationship with the U.S., PuertoRicans have struggled to retain their culturaldistinctions, with Spanish being the biggest.

Every day city-sized cruise ships dischargethousands of Americans into the charmingnarrow streets of Old San Juan, few of whomthink twice about speaking anything but Eng-lish with waiters, store clerks or police offi-cers.

Of course, these workers are bilingual,some conversing in flawless English. But youcould imagine how many of these mainlandAmericans would have taken umbrage hadsome stranger on the street back homeaddressed them in Spanish with the expecta-tion that they spoke it.

“English has long been viewed on theisland as both a tool of liberation and an instru-ment of oppression,” wrote Alicia Pousada ofthe University of Puerto Rico. “It’s the key to

economic advancement and athreat to a Latin culture. As anexample of the conflict, one ofmy cab drivers resisted speak-ing to me in his native lan-guage, even though my Span-ish was better than his Eng-

lish.”When the United States took Puerto Rico

from Spain in 1898, the U.S. military govern-ment sought to convert the island to English.The 1902 Official Languages Act declaredthat the government and courts must treatEnglish as an equal to Spanish.

The American rulers established universalfree education but also a series of policiesaimed at turning the children into Englishspeakers. They tried to hire only teachers whocould speak English. Those who taught mathor history were tested in English.

For decades, Puerto Ricans engaged inheated debates over forcing English into theclassrooms. In 1948, Puerto Rico’s first gover-nor, Luis Munoz Marin, set today’s policy ofteaching all students in Spanish, with Englishas a special subject.

Puerto Ricans occasionally vote onwhether their island should become a U.S.state or an independent country, or keep itscommonwealth status. The independence par-ties always come in a distant third.

But while the people clearly want to retaintheir privileged ties with the United States,they also want to speak Spanish at home. Pollsshow overwhelming majorities vowing theywould not give up Spanish, even if Englishwere to become the official language. The lat-est threat is cable TV, which pipes in hundredsof English language channels.

Wouldn’t it make sense to have Spanishthe language of Puerto Rico and English of the50 states? I think so. But given the intensepressures to go bilingual in neighboring LatinAmerica, Americans might reconsider goingnuts every time the recorded message says,“Para Espanol, oprima numero dos.”

Froma Harrop is a writer for CreatorsSyndicate.

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On the one hand, you have to cheer themassive outpouring of demand for democracyin Egypt. On the other hand, you have to keepyour fingers crossed.

For the past 50 years, popular demonstra-tions have led to expanded freedom more oftenthan not – in India after World War II, but notin Pakistan; in civil rights progress in the Unit-ed States; in Spain and Portugal in the 1970s;in much of Latin America, the Philippines andEastern Europe in the 1980s, culminating inthe collapse of the Berlin Wall.

But, then, we have the examples of Iran in1979, where street protests brought in a brutaltheocracy, and the Tiananmen Square mas-sacre that China’s rulers committed in 1989 tokeep themselves in power.

I used to be a journalistic democracy-chas-er. I was in Portugal amid the “Carnation Rev-olution” of 1974.

Then-Secretary of State Henry Kissingertold me and other reporters traveling in EasternEurope that the country was headed “down thedrain” toward communism.

But in Portugal, the then-U.S. ambassadorand later Defense Secretary Frank Carluccisaid that was nonsense, that Portugal wanted tobe a democracy. And he was right. It was athrilling moment.

I also was in South Korea in 1987, gasmask at the ready, the day dictator Chun DooHwan yielded to the students – and U.S. pres-sure – and declared there would be free elec-tions. It was another thrilling moment.

As it was – I wasn’t there but covered itclosely from Washington – when Ronald Rea-gan’s personal intermediary, Sen. Paul Laxalt,R-Nev., told Philippine dictator FerdinandMarcos that he had to go, and he did. WithNicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega agreed tofree elections and lost. (Of course, he got re-elected in 2007.) And, of course, when theSoviet empire collapsed.

But then,there wasIran in 1979. Iwas there inthe lullbetween thefirst mass

demonstrations in 1978 and the final crescen-do at the end of the year, when the shah wastrying to institute reform and survive. The U.S.embassy thought he’d make it. He didn’t.

The bottom line is that Egypt could go anywhich way – to free elections and real democ-racy, as the Obama administration and mostEgyptians and Americans want; or to repres-sion by dictator Hosni Mubarak’s regime,enabling him to hand over power to a chosensuccessor, or to all-out chaotic revolution orIslamic fundamentalist rule.

Which it might be is anyone’s guess, butthis fact has to be faced: If Egypt succeeds inthe transition from authoritarian rule to stabledemocracy, it would be the first Arab countryto do so.

The Arab world has benevolent monarchies– Morocco and Jordan – but they are not truedemocracies. Lebanon is a democracy, but it isunstable, and the terrorist group Hezbollah isnow the dominant force in government.

Iraq has had free elections, but the countrymay yet descend again into sectarian civil waror revert to strong-man rule. At U.S. urging,the Palestinian Authority held a free election in2006. It was won by the terrorist factionHamas, whereupon the result was canceled –except that Hamas violently seized power inGaza.

President George W. Bush declared, whiledefending the invasion of Iraq, that there wasno reason Arab countries could not be demo-cratic. He suggested it was bigoted to say oth-erwise. There’s clearly nothing genetic aboutthe absence of democracy in the Arab world,

but there may be something cultural or devel-opmental. It took Europe centuries to becomestably democratic, finally arriving fully in the1990s. Russia isn’t there yet. Africa is farbehind.

At a program Wednesday, experts at theWashington Institute for Near East Policy saidthat the key to Egypt’s future lies with its army,the country’s most respected institution, butsaid it appeared uncertain what to do and thattime is running out for a decision.

The institute’s director, Robert Satloff, saidthe evidence suggested President BarackObama made his “bold” statement Tuesdaycalling for a “transition ... now,” believing thatthe army was on the verge of action.

But on Wednesday, the military stood by aspro-Mubarak thugs assaulted pro-democracydemonstrators in a clear effort to sow chaos.

The Muslim Brotherhood so far has kept alow profile, evidently hoping Mubarak willopen parliamentary seats to dissidents, creatinga political opening. But Satloff said he does notagree with opposition leader Mohamed ElBa-radei, who says it’s “bogus” to say the MuslimBrotherhood is violent or extremist.

“It’s not the March of Dimes,” Satloff said. Even though Mubarak has been friendly to

U.S. interests – helping fight Islamic extrem-ism, resisting Iranian influence, keeping openthe Suez Canal, maintaining ties with Israel,his unpopularity has rubbed off on America’simage. According to the Pew Global Attitudespoll last year, only 17 percent of Egyptians hada favorable view of the United States, as low asany country in the world. Only 18 percent sup-ported our anti-terror policy.

So it would be a joy to see Egyptian citizensstriving for freedom achieve it, and keep it.

But even that happy result could haveunpleasant consequences for us.

Morton Kondracke is executive editor ofRoll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

Can Arab country achieve democracy?

MortonKondracke

WhenRep. MikePence of In-diana decid-ed toannounce re-cently that heisn’t going to run for the Republican nomi-nation for president – and instead is likely torun for governor of his state – you wouldhave thought, from the reaction in somequarters, that he had committed the ultimateact of betrayal. At least one senior longtimeRepublican political aide thought that Pencehad somehow let down his principles and hiscountry by not taking a chance on the presi-dential race. Folks on the Pence for presidentbandwagon were in a deep funk. “Seriously,who else do we have?” one asked me.“Unless something miraculous happens andwe get an unexpected gift candidate.”

Another GOP stalwart agreed: “Sad to say,but at a time when we need someone withguts, like Reagan in ‘76, challenging anincumbent president of his own party, orRubio staying in the Florida Senate race whenhe was 40 points down to Crist, we get polit-ical calculation and personal ambition.”

... While I appreciate these hard-workingpolitical veterans’ early assessments of thefield of potential candidates and their effortsto draft fresh candidates to energize people, Ithink they’re down way too early. It’s a bigcountry, filled with potential candidates.Some of them are ready and willing to run,and some have very familiar names.

One of the latter happens to be namedBush. Later this month on MSNBC, ChrisMatthews will host a special presenting BillClinton as “President of the World,” talkingabout Clinton’s global charity work sincebeing out of office. In that spirit, consider thismy pitch for a Fox News special: “Jeb Bush,Governor of the Country,” a model of conser-vative leadership in and out of office. In hispost-gubernatorial life, the former chief exec-utive of Florida – a bit of a policy wonk andactivist on education – has been working withschool officials, businessmen and policymak-ers to translate his Florida achievement intoprogress for our schools nationwide.

At National Review, we currently have acover story on the man, calling him a “can-doconservative reformer.” That applies to histime as governor as well as what he’s beendoing since he left office in 2007. Educationreform is a signature issue and one of his pri-mary passions. And as John Miller explains inhis piece for NR, Bush led Florida from thebottom of the states in education rankings tothe top five. “Taxes and regulation are impor-tant, but long-term prosperity is all about thequality of education,” Bush tells my col-league. On his multi-pronged, difficultapproach, one education expert comments:“It shows that compassion is not about howmuch money you spend but about the resultsyou get – and these are great results.”

Now, Jeb Bush isn’t feeling too willing atthe moment, when it comes to a presidentialrun. And though I’ve been around at least onemember of Bush’s family who was encourag-ing of the idea, his mother, the former firstlady, recently announced that the Americanpeople may be officially “Bushed out” on thepresidential level.

But the truth of the matter is, in conversa-tions with folks from Washington and grass-roots activists, Bush’s name keeps coming up.“If only,” they’ll say. If only his name weren’tBush. A third President Bush would just beoverkill. It’s an anti-elitism thing. It’s suppos-edly a fatigue thing. But even George W.Bush is more popular than he was upon leav-ing office. He’s a best-selling author: AsSarah Palin’s detractors love to point out, heeven, for weeks on end, kept her second book,“America by Heart,” from the No. 1 spot onthe New York Times best-seller list, with his“Decision Points.”

... But I’m not necessarily going to be in afunk if Jeb doesn’t change his mind and run –because he’s not the only qualified conserva-tive with real-life experience out there.Arguably the most far along organizationallymight be former Pennsylvania senator RickSantorum, who has hired staff in New Hamp-shire. Listen to him any Friday morning,when he’s sitting in the guest-host chair onBill Bennett’s Salem radio show, and you arereminded how smart he is about policy andWashington, after having successfully led theeffort to reform welfare under Bill Clinton, asa freshman congressman.

A successful record won’t be a liability onthe road to the White House in 2012. Whichis why former Massachusetts governor MittRomney is seriously looking at runningagain, despite much discussed real and per-ceived liabilities. He’s got both business andchief-executive political experience, valuablecommodities, especially right now, especiallyin 2012.

There is talent out there. There is leader-ship. Don’t be quick to dismiss a perfectlyqualified and impressive candidate. Questionthe conventional. And while that someone“miraculous” could appear, beware the“wow” candidate. Records matter. Successmatters. Workmanship matters.

With those credentials, a familiar nameought not be a liability.

Kathryn Lopez is the editor of NationalReview Online (www.nationalreview.com).

Jeb Bush shouldconsider running

KathrynJean Lopez

To anyone keeping track of Oklahomapolitics these days, it has to be obvious thatvoters are in a mood, and they expect across-the-board cuts in what they see as a bloatedbureaucracy.

During her first State of the State address,Gov. Mary Fallin did what she had to do: Sheannounced those cuts would become reality.Prudently, she pledged to protect education,health care and public safety from the worstof the pain, but she added: “All of us willhave to do more with less.”

Exactly how her plan will unfold, andwhether she means “all” in the traditionalsense, remains to be seen. If she is as good asher word, and some of the thickest cellulitecan be excised from the state budget, she willsecure her place in history. Almost everyonewould agree there are plenty of places wheregovernment spending could use a goodshave. It’s just the precise location of thesehairy patches that will set folks at odds.

For instance, while most people believechildren are our most precious commodity,and education is paramount to their future, it’sclear that at some levels, taxpayers aren’t get-ting the best bang for the buck. The worst“level,” by most estimates, is somewhere nearthe top. Comparative surveys reveal a ridicu-lous discrepancy, in many school districts,between the pay of top administrators and thatof teachers and staff members, not to mentionthe ratio of administrators to staff.

As with any other profession, there are badteachers, and Fallin is right to address this sit-uation. But when good teachers are being laidoff and forced to go years without raises,administrators should not be able to compelrubber-stamp school boards to give them payhikes and let them add more assistants andvice-whatevers to their inner circles. Manydistricts have a few top-level administratorswho are nothing more than redundant, goodol’ boy appointments. Getting rid of themwould save the taxpayers a ton of money.

The salaries – and in some cases, the mereexistence – of many highly placed govern-ment “administrators” are also anathema toany plan to cut spending. It makes no sense tocontinue paying six-figure salaries to uselessdesk jockeys and schmoozers, while the peo-ple who have the technical expertise in thefield and do the actual labor in the trenchesare furloughed, laid off, or subjected to paycuts. This is not a good investment for taxpay-ers, and most of the public wouldn’t mind onebit if Fallin’s crew went line by line to root outthe parasites.

Few crusaders would advocate wholesaledismissal of government employees. Peoplewho don’t have jobs can’t pay for goods andservices, and that’s not good for Oklahomabusiness. But neither is the buddy system thathas been a historical part of Oklahoma poli-tics. It’s time these people began justifyingtheir paychecks.

On the subject of budget cuts, imaginehow eternally popular Fallin would be if shestepped forward and asked members of theLegislature and other top officials to accept a3 percent cut in salary, staff and officeexpenses. Unless any of those folks in controlof the statehouse want to volunteer to takeone for the team.

Any takers? No? We didn’t think so. Butit’s something to consider.

State budget:Defining ‘all’

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WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama iscalling for a six-year, $53 bil-lion spending plan for high-speed rail, as he seeks to useinfrastructure spending tojump-start job creation.

An initial $8 billion inspending will be part of thebudget plan Obama is set torelease Monday. If Congressapproves the plan, the moneywould go toward developingor improving trains that travelup to 250 mph, and connect-ing existing rail lines to newprojects. The White Housewouldn’t say where themoney for the rest of the pro-gram would come from,though it’s likely Obamawould seek funding in futurebudgets or transportationbills.

Obama’s push for high-speed rail spending is part ofhis broad goal of creating jobsin the short-term and increas-ing American competitive-ness for the future throughnew funding for infrastruc-ture, education and innova-tion. During last month’sState of the Union address,Obama said he wanted to give80 percent of Americansaccess to high-speed rail with-

in 25 years.At the

same timehe’s callingfor newspending onsectors likehigh-speed

rail in the upcoming budget,Obama also has pledged tocut overall spending as heseeks to bring down thenation’s mounting deficit. TheWhite House has said envi-ronmental programs for theGreat Lakes, and block grantsfor community service andcommunity development areamong the programs that willface cuts.

But it’s unlikely the cutsObama proposes in the budg-et will be enough to appeasethe GOP. Republicans nowcontrolling the House havepromised to slash domesticagencies’ budgets by nearly20 percent for the comingyear.

The White House has saidcuts must be cautious, arguingthat drastic reductions inspending could cause the still-fragile economic recovery tostall. Vice President Joe Bidensaid Tuesday the administra-tion wouldn’t compromise

when it comes to spending onthe infrastructure, educationand innovation programsObama is touting.

“We cannot compromise.The rest of the world is notcompromising,” Biden said inPhiladelphia at an eventannouncing the high-speedrail initiative.

Obama’s call for increasedspending on high-speed railprojects is nothing new. He’slong seen the sector as an areaof opportunity for creatingjobs and improving thenation’s transportation sys-tem.

His administration award-ed $10 billion in federalgrants for high-speed railprojects last year, including$2.3 billion for California tobegin work on an 800-mile-long, high-speed rail linetying Sacramento and the SanFrancisco Bay area to LosAngeles and San Diego; and$1.25 billion to Florida tobuild a rail line connectingTampa on the West Coastwith Orlando in the middle ofthe state, eventually goingsouth to Miami.

Obama also laid out a planlast summer to invest $50 bil-lion in high-speed rail, as well

as highways, bridges, transitand airports, adding it to thefirst year of a six-year trans-portation bill. Congress didn’tact on the proposal beforeadjourning last year, butTransportation Secretary RayLaHood said he’s confidentlawmakers will take up themeasure again and deliver abill to Obama by August.

Thus far, Obama’s plans toincrease spending on high-speed rail have received achilly a reception fromRepublicans. House Trans-portation Committee Chair-man John Mica, R-Fla., urgedthe administration Tuesday tofocus its spending on thecrowded Northeast rail corri-dor, and not “squander limitedtaxpayer dollars on marginalprojects.”

Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor,the second-ranking HouseRepublican, urged the admin-istration to involve the busi-ness community in its high-speed rail plans.

“I’m not in favor of addi-tional monies that we don’thave, to be spent on thoseprojects, and would certainlylook for ways to leverage theprivate sector to get itinvolved,” Cantor said.

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — The OklahomaSupreme Court heard oralarguments Tuesday in a law-suit that challenges the con-stitutionality of the state’sJudicial Nominating Com-mission, a case that couldimpact some recent judicialappointments including atleast one Supreme Court jus-tice. Oklahoma County Dis-trict Judge Noma Gurichwas appointed to a vacancyon the high court by formerGov. Brad Henry last monthover the objections of oppo-nents who claimed theappointment may not bevalid until the panel thatnominated Gurich for thejob was reconstitutedaccording to a ballot meas-ure approved by voters inNovember.

The commission wentahead and submitted thenames of Gurich and twoother nominees, former Lt.Gov. Jari Askins and Okla-homa Court of Civil AppealsJudge John Fischer, to Henryafter the Attorney General’sOffice handed down anopinion that said passage of

State Question 752 did notaffect the makeup of thepanel and was not retroac-tive on commission mem-bers appointed prior to thereferendum’s passage.

The state question addedtwo at-large commissionmembers to be named by thespeaker of the House and thepresident pro tem of the Sen-ate and increased the panel’ssize from 13 members to 15.The measure also prohibitedsix non-lawyer membersnamed by the governor fromhaving lawyers in theirimmediate families.

Although formallyappointed to the SupremeCourt, Gurich has yet to besworn in to the seat leftvacant by the death of Jus-tice Marian Opala on Oct. 11at the age of 89. Anotherrecent appointment to thehigh court, former Pot-tawatomie County DistrictJudge Douglas L. Combs,was sworn in last month butis not participating withother members of the nine-member court in helpingdecide the constitutionalchallenge.

OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — Republican Gov.Mary Fallin and GOP lead-ers in the House and Senatesaid Tuesday they’re com-mitted to overhauling Okla-homa’s workers’ compensa-tion and civil lawsuit sys-tems to save businessesmoney, despite concernsfrom attorneys that the sav-ings will come at the

expense of injuredpeople.

Flanked by morethan three dozen Re -publican lawmakers,Fallin, House Speak-er Kris Steele andSenate President ProTem Brian Bingmanannounced that reducingworkers’ compensation andmedical malpractice costs

would be one of thetop legislative priori-ties for the sessionthat began Monday.

R e p u b l i c a n shave long madechanging the waylawsuits are filed and

litigated a top priority, butthis is the first year in whichthe GOP controls the House,Senate and the governor’s

office. Former DemocraticGov. Brad Henry, an attor-ney, frequently blockedmany of the changes Repub-licans sought.

“We know that our sys-tem is too costly. We know itis one that does not processclaims in a timely fashion forinjured workers,” Fallin said.

“That means injuredworkers aren’t getting back

to their jobs in a timely fash-ion.” Fallin said high med-ical malpractice costs arediscouraging doctors fromentering the profession orlocating in Oklahoma.

“We want to take care ofpeople who are injured orpeople who have some legalgrievance, but we also wantto protect our state againstwhat I call ‘jackpot justice,’

those who take advantage ofour legal system,” Fallinsaid. Attorneys who repre-sent Oklahoma residentswho are injured on the job orbecause of medical negli-gence say claims of outra-geous jury awards are mis-leading and that changes likecaps on non-economic dam-ages will only hurt the mostvulnerable people.

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Obama to call for $53B for high-speed rail

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DearAnnie: I have been bestfriends with “Claire” since juniorhigh. She is nothing short of aknockout, with a sweet personal-ity to match. We have alwaysbeen very close, and I treasureour friendship.

The problem is, when we areout together, men are interestedin Claire but feel she is unap-proachable because she is sobeautiful. Instead, they talk meup to try to get their foot in thedoor with her. Quite frankly, I amfed up with men only talking tome because they know I amfriends with Claire. Then, whenshe isn’t interested in them, Ihave to let them down. It’sexhausting.

I am successful, educated,smart and funny, and I’m not badlooking, either, but men are onlyinterested in my hot friend. Thishas been going on since highschool, and I’m 35, for heaven’ssake. How do I break this cycleor, at the very least, tactfully tellthese men that I am not the key toClaire’s heart? -- Invisible

Dear Invisible: You arealways going to suffer by com-parison to Claire, so we stronglyurge you not to try to meet menwhen you are with her. Herbright light makes everythingelse seem dim. On other occa-sions, when you are in Claire’scompany, it is perfectly OK torefuse to intercede. If you areapproached about Claire, simplysay, “Sorry, but if you are inter-ested in my friend, you’ll have totalk to her directly.”

Dear Annie: We recentlyhad dinner at a local restaurantwith three other couples. Usually,a tip is automatically added withparties of six or more, but thistime, the server did not do so.

Our friend who handled thecheck added the tip to the total

bill, including the fairly hefty tax,and then divided by the numberof couples to see what we eachowed. I was taught that one gavea tip on the price of the meal, notincluding the tax. Who is cor-rect? -- Wondering in NewHampshire

Dear N.H.: You are, althoughwe are sure the server appreciat-ed the extra money. Since it both-ers you, we recommend you han-dle the check next time.

Dear Annie: This is inresponse to “To Gift or Not ToGift,” whose daughter-in-lawwas talking about a divorce.“Gift” wanted to know if thedaughter-in-law should be takenoff the annual gift list.

It is always best to take thepeaceful way in a family matter. Idid and never regretted it. Whenmy son and his wife split up, Itold them both that I love themand their child and would notmake my granddaughter choosebetween her parents. I includedmy daughter-in-law in all family

gatherings. They separated, but never

divorced. When my son waskilled a few months later, I said asfar as I was concerned there wasno separation. I included mydaughter-in-law in planning thefuneral and the obituary. Peoplehad the nerve to say I shouldn’thave been so inclusive, but I toldthem I was the mother and this iswhat I wanted. I did it for mydaughter-in-law, my grand-daughter and our family.

We are still close, and mygranddaughter stays with mequite a bit. Had I made enemieswith my daughter-in-law whenthey separated, I may not havehad the chance to spend so muchtime with my son’s daughter. Isay give her the gift, and the nexttime she complains about yourson, simply say, “You are talkingabout my child, and it hurts me tohear negative things about him.Please don’t put me in the middlelike that.” You will be surprisedhow fast she will respect yourwishes.

My daughter-in-law onceasked whether I minded if shestill considered me to be hermother-in-law, even if she some-day remarries. I told her I wouldbe honored. -- A.G.

Dear A.G.: You did it right.Brava.

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Two students of TahlequahBallet’s Performing ArtsAcademy auditioned for theprestious Joffrey Ballet’s sum-mer workshops at The Danceand Performing Arts Acade-my of Tulsa Sunday, Jan. 23.

The two-hour auditionclass was conducted byBuddy and Susan Trevino,directors of The Joffrey Work-shop Texas of San Antonio.

At the end of the audition,Phoebe Huffman, 16-year-olddaughter of Greg and KimHuffman of Tahlequah, wasone of only a handful of Okla-homa dancers accepted toattend the three-week JoffreyWorkshop Texas, which isconducted by professionaldancers and instructors fromthe New York City-based Jof-frey Ballet and is intended togive students from all over thecountry a close look at the life

they might lead should theychoose to dance professional-ly in a major ballet company.

At the end of the three-week program, Joffrey Work-shop students will present afinal dance concert July 16, onthe campus of St. Mary’s Uni-versity in San Antonio.

This is Huffman’s secondyear to audition for Joffreyand her first year to be chosen.Last year, she was accepted tothe preparatory program, EliteEcole Texas. Huffman attrib-utes this year’s success to theexpert instruction she receivesin 10 hours of weekly balletclasses from Lena Gladkova-Huffman, ballet mistress ofTahlequah Ballet.

Jessie Hooper, 19-year-oldson of Rhonda Hooper ofCookson, was chosen to par-ticipate in The Elite Ecole ofTexas and was additionallyawarded a $1,200 tuitionscholarship based on his audi-tion performance. The EliteEcole is also directed by theTrevinos and providesdancers with an experiencethat could lead to a futureyear’s admission to The Jof-frey Workshop.

Hooper is on a full balletscholarship at Tahlequah Bal-let, having just completed hisfirst year of study under Glad-kova-Huffman. This is his

first year to audition for Jof-frey.

Both students are excitedabout their opportunities andgrateful to have access to thequality of ballet training herein Tahlequah that makes par-ticipating at this level of dancepossible. The students wereaccompanied to their auditionby Kim Huffman, executiveand artistic director of Tahle-quah Ballet.

“Making dreams cometrue for our students, both inTahlequah and beyond, iswhat we do at Tahlequah Bal-let,” said Huffman. “We areespecially proud of Phoebe’sand Jessie’s accomplishmentsat this particular audition asthey competed among thearea’s elite ballet students forvery limited openings.”

Other students auditioningwere from Tulsa Youth Ballet,The Dance and PerformingArts Academy of Tulsa andTulsa Ballet. Tahlequah Balletis accepting donations to helpfund tuition, boarding andtravel expenses for bothdancers. Interested donorsmay contact Huffman at (918)207-0111 or by e-mail [email protected] more information aboutTahlequah Ballet, visitwww.tahlequahballet.org.

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Every year the Herb Rozell Scholars at Northeastern State University come together for agreat cause they like to call “The Big Event.” This is a time when students and communi-ty members alike gather for one day to work on a variety of community service projects forthe Tahlequah area. Darla Rodgers, community liaison, said it’s open to anyone and no jobis too big or too small. “It’s for anyone who would like to get something done,” she said.“It can be commercial or residential.” The group does work including painting, cleaning,or just about anything put on the list. “If someone would like for their project to be done,they just need to fill out a job request form and submit it to student activities in the UC base-ment,” Rodgers said. “We are really trying to help the elderly and anyone else who can’ttackle the projects themselves.” In past events, more than 700 people show up to give theirtime to service those that need it in the Tahlequah community.

“If anyone wants to volunteer they can,” Rodgers said. “Community members can also help,they don’t have to be students to participate.” The deadline for job requests is March 4 withthe event taking place March 26. You can get a request form in the Tahlequah Daily Pressor visit the student activities center at Northeastern State University.

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Local dancers excel at Joffrey auditions

Jessie Hooper, left, will participate in The Elite Ecole ofTexas. Buddy Trevino, right, conducted the auditions.

PHOEBE HUFFMAN

Lena Gladkova-Huffman,assistant director, ballet mis-tress and Irish dance teacherof Tahlequah Ballet, recentlyadded another Irish Feis toher Irish dance competitionwinnings.

This past fall, Gladkova-Huffman competed in theFort Smith Feis and won firstplace in her division for slipjig, single jig, hornpipe andtreble jig and second placefor reel.

On Jan. 29, in Branson,Mo., she competed in a moreadvanced division and placedfirst again in the three jigsand the hornpipe and secondin the reel.

Based on her winnings,she has been advanced to theprize-winner division, where

she will compete in LittleRock, Ark., in April.

Several of her Irish stu-dents from Tahlequah Balletwill also compete in the LittleRock Feis, their first Irishcompetition since Gladkova-Huffman started the Irishdance program at TahlequahBallet last year.

Attending the BransonFeis with Gladkova-Huffmanwas her husband, Alexander,Irish bouhdran player; andtheir son, Nikolai, who at age5 months was attending histhird Irish Feis.

For more informationabout Tahlequah Ballet’sIrish dance program, contactTahlequah Ballet at [email protected] or call(918) 207-0111.

Tahlequah Ballet’s Irishteacher big winner again

At the Branson Feis Jan. 29 are (clockwise from left)Lena, Alex and Niki Huffman.

Tahlequah CommunityPlayhouse will present “Lead-ing Ladies,” written by KenLudwig (“Lend Me a Tenor”)and directed by Craig Cliffordand Ron Goosen.

All performances are at theArmory Municipal CenterAuditorium, 100 N. Water St.Show dates are Friday andSaturday, Feb. 11-12 and Feb.18-19, and Sunday, Feb. 13and 20.

Doors open and dinner isserved at 6:30 p.m. Friday andSaturday and doors open anddinner is served at 1 p.m. Sun-day. The show begins at 7:30

p.m. Friday and Saturday andat 2 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $20 foradults, $15 for students age 13years through college, and$12.50 for children 12 andunder.

Reservations are requiredand must be made by Tuesdayof the week of the perform-ance. Reservation forms are atwww.tcpok.com and are alsoavailable at the TahlequahChamber of Commerce, Mor-ris-Cragar and A CowboyRose florists.

For more information, e-mail [email protected].

TCP ‘Leading Ladies’takes stage this month

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SPORTS BWednesday, Feb. 9, 2011

LOCAL

Tickets on salefor LSC tourney

All-session tickets arenow available for theupcoming Lone Star Con-ference Basketball Cham-pionship at a discountedrate. All tickets purchasedby the Feb. 23 deadlinewill come with a $20 sav-ings off the regular price aswell as a free LSC Basket-ball Championship sou-venir.

This year’s LSC Bas-ketball Championship willbe played March 2-6 atBruin Fieldhouse atBartlesville High School.The top eight men’s andtop eight women’s teamsfrom the conference willcombine to play 14 gamesover a five-day span, cul-minating with the women’schampionship game onMarch 5 and the men’schampionship on March 6.

All-session tickets are$35 if purchased inadvance. After Wednes-day’s deadline for advancepurchases, the price will be$55 for all-session ticketsor $12 per session. Stu-dent prices will be $27 forall-session tickets or $7 persession. The tournamentwill be played in eight sep-arate sessions, with twosessions per day onWednesday, Thursday andSaturday, along with singlesessions on both Fridayand Sunday.

Fans can purchase tick-ets by contacting their localathletic departmentthrough Feb. 23. Ticketsare also available online atthe Lone Star Conferencewebsite (www.lonestarcon-ference.org).

STATE

Durant among 3-point contestants

NEW YORK (AP) —Paul Pierce will defend his3-point shootout titleagainst a field that includesfellow Boston Celtics All-Star Ray Allen and NBAscoring leader KevinDurant of Oklahoma City.

Allen is on the verge ofbecoming the careerleader in 3-pointers made.He won the title 10 yearsago while playing for Mil-waukee. Pierce was thechampion last year in Dal-las, scoring 20 points in thefinal round to beat StephenCurry.

The remainder of thefield announced Tuesdayis Miami’s James Jones,Golden State’s DorellWright and Cleveland’sDaniel Gibson.

The 3-point contest willbe part of All-Star eventson Feb. 19 in Los Angeles.

Luper picks up3rd league honor

For the third time thisseason, Oral Roberts’ KeviLuper was named theSummit League’sWomen’s Basketball Play-er of the Week for herefforts from Feb. 1-7.

In leading the GoldenEagles to victories overNorth Dakota State andSouth Dakota State, Lupertotaled 58 points in twogames. The sophomorefrom Adair recorded 32points against NDSU and26 against SDSU.

During her scoring ram-page, Luper shot 57 per-cent (24 of 42) from thefield and 75 percent (6 of8) from behind the 3-pointline.

Luper, whose brotherChristian recently signedwith Northeastern State toplay football, is now 10thon the ORU scoring listwith 1,327 career points.

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By BEN JOHNSONPress Sports Editor

Kenny Evans has had the opportu-nity to oversee three recruiting class-es at Northeastern State. And theRiverHawks’ head coach offered nohesitation when talking about hismost recent group of signees.

“I think it’s definitely one of themost talented groups in my threeyears of being the head coach here,”Evans said, talking about the 19 play-ers that NSU signed during thenational signing period, which beganlast week. “I think we did a reallygood job picking up some of the besttalent here locally, as well as branch-

ing out to some new areas.”In all, NSU signed a combined 36

players between midterm signees —players who signed in the fall — andplayers who signed in February. Andwith nearly 20 starters returning in2011, Evans said his most recentclass satisfies plenty of needs.

“We hit what we needed with 17starters coming back,” said Evans,whose team went 6-5 overall and 5-1 in the Lone Star Conference Northin 2010. “And with 90 playersreturning and with what we addedwith this signing class, we’re realexcited.”

A key term used by assistant headcoach and recruiting coordinator

Mike Knoll to describe the 2011 classwas ‘versatility.’

“Just look at the versatility of theclass,” said Knoll, a former headcoach at New Mexico State. “Wehave guys who are able to play multi-ple positions. That really helps us interms of being able to plug them in[into the lineup].”

Biggest surprise of signing classWhen players’ choices are

between Division I or II schools,often times the D-II schools come upshort. This year, however, NSU beatout some area Division I’s for ChrisSmith.

“The biggest name [on our list]

was Chris Smith,” Evans said of the6-foot-1, 188-pound wide receiverfrom Fayetteville, Ark., who was onOklahoma State’s and Arkansas’radar. “He was recruited by Big 12and Southeastern Conference schoolsas the No. 1 wide receiver prospectout of the state of Arkansas.”

A key factor in landing Smithwas Daryl Patton, the head coach atFayetteville High School and fatherof current NSU kicker, Drew Pat-ton.

“He played in the state champi-onship game last year for coach Pat-ton,” Evans said. “And he brings a lotof talent to our team. And he’ll prob-

Evans: NSU signed solid 2011 class

A BANNER DAY

Terran Pettit (left) and theSequoyah Indians had theirgame against Wagoner post-poned on Tuesday because ofincoming inclement weather.The Indians are slated to hostVictory Christian at home onThursday.Press photo by Ben Johnson

From Press staff reports

The waiting game continuesfor the basketball teams atTahlequah High School.

After playing at Bishop Kel-ley on Jan. 28, both THS varsitybasketball squads have hadgame after game postponedbecause of inclement winterweather.

And the pattern continued onTuesday.

THS was slated to hostBartlesville at the TMAC, butBartlesville officials opted not tomake the trip because of thepending snowstorm. As of dead-line time Tuesday night, the twoschools had not worked out amakeup date.

Sequoyah’s basketball teamssuffered the same fate as THS,having games postponedbecause of the visiting team —in this case, Wagoner — choos-ing to stay at home instead of

Localschoolscancelhoopsgames

NSU’s Cristy Nitz (right) was named the Lone Star Conference’s North DivisionWomen’s Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.

Courtesy photo by NSU Media Relations

From Press staff reports

All it took was onegame in the span of aweek for NortheasternState to sweep Lone StarConference honors.

After having twogames postponed lastweek before finally play-ing on Monday, the NSUwomen’s basketball teamwon both LSC NorthOffensive and DefensivePlayers of the Week whenthe league announced theaccolades on Tuesday.

Cristy Nitz was namedthe Defensive Player ofthe Week for spearhead-ing NSU’s stifling defen-sive effort in a 63-45 vic-tory over rival CentralOklahoma on Monday.Nitz, who totaled eightrebounds, three blocksand two steals to go alongwith 11 points, and Co.limited UCO to 24.2 per-cent (15 of 62).

Jasmine Wrightsnagged Offensive Playerof the Week after her sea-son-high, 16-point per-

JASMINE WRIGHT

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The NFL hasadded a second option for the rough-ly 400 fans who had to give up theirseats at the Super Bowl: They canchoose to attend any future SuperBowl instead of being limited to the2012 game.

The league initially said Sunday itwould give $2,400, three times theface value of the ticket, to the fanswho were forced to watch the game

on monitors or use standing-roomplatforms after some temporary seat-ing sections were not completed intime.

On Monday, Commissioner RogerGoodell said those fans also wouldreceive tickets to next year’s SuperBowl.

Then on Tuesday, the NFLannounced the fans could chooseinstead to receive a ticket to anyfuture Super Bowl, including nextyear’s, along with round-trip airfare

and hotel accommodations. If fanschoose that option, they will not getthe $2,400. They can wait until afterthe conference championship gameseach season to see whether theirfavorite team reaches the SuperBowl.

“We had more time to think abouthow to create a broader range ofoptions that would better recognizethe deep emotional bond that fanshave for their team,” NFL spokesman

See NSU, page 3B

Fans who lost seats get more options

See NFL, page 2B

� NSU womensweep leaguehonors and stayput at No. 6nationally.

See LSC, page 2B

See Games, page 2B

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AREA SPORTS CALENDAR(Weather permitting on all events)

WednesdayBasketball

• NSU at SEOSU — women at 6 p.m.and men at 8.

ThursdayBasketball

• Victory Christian at Sequoyah;Hulbert at Warner — girls at 6:30 p.m.and boys at 8.

FridayBasketball

• Tahlequah at Collinsville; Gore atHublert; Fort Gibson at Keys — girls at6:30 p.m. and boys at 8.

Wrestling• Tahlequah vs. Altus in Class 5A Dual

State — 8 p.m. at Skiatook HighSchool.

Baseball• NSU at Cameron (doubleheader) —

2 p.m.Saturday

Basketball• Texas A&M-Commerce at NSU —

women at 2 p.m. and men at 4.• Sequoyah at Riverside — girls at 3

p.m. and boys at 4:30.• Pryor at Tahlequah; Westville at

Keys — girls at 6:30 p.m. and boys 8.Baseball

• NSU at Cameron (doubleheader) —noon.

Softball• NW Missouri State at NSU — 1 p.m.

Sports On TelevisionFor Wednesday(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/orblackouts.MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m.ESPN — Georgetown at SyracuseESPN2 — Marquette at South Florida9 p.m.ESPN — North Carolina at DukeESPN2 — Texas at Oklahoma11 p.m.ESPN2 — Utah St. at IdahoNHL HOCKEY7 p.m.VERSUS — Montreal at BostonSOCCER2:55 p.m.ESPN2 — Exhibition, men's nationalteams, France vs. Brazil, at Paris

RURAL SCHOOL BASKETBALLDivision I Playoff PairingsNorth Area (All at Lone Star)Saturday, Feb. 12 (Area first round)Girls: Lone Star vs. Crutcho, noonGirls: Grand View vs. South RockCreek, 2 p.m.Boys: Grand View vs. Crutcho, 1 p.m.Boys: Lone Star vs. South Rock Creek,3 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 18 (Area loser’s bracket)Girls: First-round losers, 5 p.m.Boys: First-round losers, 6 p.m.

(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)(Area winner’s bracket)Girls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

Saturday, Feb. 19 (Consolationfinals)Girls: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 2 p.m.Boys: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 3 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

East AreaAt WoodallSaturday, Feb. 12 (Area first round)Girls: Woodall vs. Justus-Tiawah, noonGirls: Moseley vs. Twin Hills, 2 p.m.Boys: Woodall vs. Justus-Tiawah, 1p.m.Boys: Moseley vs. Twin Hills, 3 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 18 (Area loser’s bracket)At PeggsGirls: First-round losers, 5 p.m.Boys: First-round losers, 6 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)(Area winner’s bracket)Girls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

Saturday, Feb. 19 (Consolationfinals)At PeggsGirls: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 4 p.m.Boys: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 5 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

South Area (At Maryetta)Saturday, Feb. 12 (Area first round)Girls: Allen Bowden vs. Briggs, 4 p.m.Girls: Zion vs. Maryetta, 6 p.m.Boys: Allen Bowden vs. Briggs, 5 p.m.Boys: Zion vs. Maryetta, 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 18 (Area loser’s bracket)At PeggsGirls: First-round losers, 5 p.m.Boys: First-round losers, 6 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)(Area winner’s bracket)Girls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

Saturday, Feb. 19 (Consolationfinals)At PeggsGirls: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 1 p.m.Boys: Winner in loser’s bracket gamevs. loser in area finals, 2 p.m.(Winners advance to state)

West Area (At Oakdale)Schools in area: Oakdale, North RockCreek, Grove, Whitehead

Division II Playoff PairingsNorth AreaSaturday, Feb. 12 (Regional firstround)At OsageGirls: Pretty Water vs. Peggs, 4 p.m.;Shady Grove vs. Leach, 6 p.m.Boys: Peggs vs. Shady Grove, 5 p.m.;Leach vs. Pretty Water, 7 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)At Rocky MountainGirls: Rocky Mountain vs. Marble City,4 p.m.; Brushy vs. Peavine, 6 p.m.Boys: Marble City vs. Peavine, 5 p.m.;Brushy vs. Rocky Mountain, 7 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)

Monday, Feb. 14 (Regional finals)At OsageGirls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Both teams advnace to area)At Rocky MountainGirls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Both teams advnace to area)

Thursday, Feb. 17 (Area consola-tion)At PeggsGirls: Regional runner-ups, 4 p.m.Boys: Regional runner-ups, 5 p.m.(Area finals)Girls: Regional champions, 8 p.m.Boys: Regionanl champions, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 19 (Area consolation)Girls: Area consolation winner vs. areafinals runner-up, 2 p.m.Boys: Area consolation winner vs. areafinals runner-up, 3 p.m.

East AreaSaturday, Feb. 12 (Regional firstround)At Rocky MountainGirls: Tenkiller vs. Liberty, 11 a.m.;Mofett vs. Norwood, 1 p.m.Boys: Tenkiller vs. Liberty, noon; Moffettvs. Norwood, 2 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)At Frink-ChambersGirls: Hodgen vs. Krebs, 4 p.m.;Tannehill vs. Frink-Chambers, 6 p.m.Boys: Hodgen vs. Krebs, 5 p.m.;Tannehill vs. Frink-Chambers, 7 p.m.(Winners advance; Losers eliminated)

Monday, Feb. 14 (Regional finals)At Rocky MountainGirls: First-round winners, 5 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 6 p.m.(Both teams advnace to area)At Frink-ChambersGirls: First-round winners, 7 p.m.Boys: First-round winners, 8 p.m.(Both teams advnace to area)

Thursday, Feb. 17 (Area consola-tion)At Frink-ChambersGirls: Regional runner-ups, 5 p.m.Boys: Regional runner-ups, 6 p.m.(Area finals)

Girls: Regional champions, 7 p.m.Boys: Regionanl champions, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 19 (Area consolation)Girls: Area consolation winner vs. areafinals runner-up, 2 p.m.Boys: Area consolation winner vs. areafinals runner-up, 3 p.m.

West Area (Oakdale)Schools in area: Pleasant Grove,Justice, Jennings, Darlington, Pioneer,White Rock, Middleberg.

South Area (Grant)Schools in area: Cottonwood, FroestGrove, Zaneis, Denison, Grant, HollyCree, Lukfata, Lane.

Division III Playoff Pairings(Same format as Division II)West Area (Oakdale)Teams in area: Gypsy, Banner, Maple,Oak Grove, Robin Hill, Friend, Terral,Grandview, Byars

East Area (Frink-Chambers)Teams in area: Shady Point,Wainwright, Ryal, Whitefield,Fanshawe, Bearden, Greenville,Pickett-Center, Mannsville.

North Area (Peggs)Teams in area: Kenwood, Osage Hills,White Oak, Bowring, Cleora,Spavinaw, Greasy, Lowrey, Wickliffe.Dahlonegah, Belfonte.

South Area (Grant)Teams in area: Stidham, Haywood,Swink, Nashoba, Albion, Tuskahoma,Monroe, Glover.

HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLINGDual State pairings (all clases)Class 6A (At Skiatook)First Round (Friday)Dual 1: Westmoore vs. Broken Arrow, 6p.m.Dual 2: Yukon vs. Sapulpa, 6 p.m.Dual 3: Edmond North vs. SandSprings, 8 p.m.Dual 4: Moore vs. Muskogee, 8 p.m.Semifinals (Saturday)Dual 1 winner vs. Dual 2 winner, 2 p.m.Dual 3 winner vs. Dual 4 winner, 2 p.m.Championship at 6 p.m.

Class 5A (At Skiatook)First Round (Friday)Dual 1: Deer Creek vs. Collinsville, 6p.m.Dual 2: Duncan vs. Shawnee, 6 p.m.Dual 3: Altus vs. Tahlequah, 8 p.m.Dual 4: Harrah vs. Claremore, 8 p.m.Semifinals (Saturday)Dual 1 winner vs. Dual 2 winner, 2 p.m.Dual 3 winner vs. Dual 4 winner, 2 p.m.Championship at 6 p.m.

Class 4A (At Cushing)First Round (Friday)Dual 1: Weatherford vs. Sallisaw, 6

p.m.Dual 2: Blackwell vs. Bristow, 6 p.m.Dual 3: Tuttle vs. Catoosa, 8 p.m.Dual 4: Cushing vs. Vinita, 8 p.m.Semifinals (Saturday)Dual 1 winner vs. Dual 2 winner, 2 p.m.Dual 3 winner vs. Dual 4 winner, 2 p.m.Championship at 6 p.m.

Class 3A (At Cushing)First Round (Friday)Dual 1: Geary vs. Vian, 6 p.m.Dual 2: Little Axe vs. Newkirk, 6 p.m.Dual 3: Comanche vs. Pawhuska, 8p.m.Dual 4: Hinton vs. Perry, 8 p.m.Semifinals (Saturday)Dual 1 winner vs. Dual 2 winner, 2 p.m.Dual 3 winner vs. Dual 4 winner, 2 p.m.Championship at 6 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALLWomen’s D-II Coaches’ pollUSA TODAY/ESPN Division II Top 25women's basketball poll, with first-placevotes in parentheses, total pointsbased on 25 points for first placethrough one point for 25th:

Record Pts Pvs1. Lander (26) 23-0 698 12. Clayton St. 22-0 662 23. Delta St. 19-1 634 34. Ft. Lewis (2) 20-1 605 45. Ark. Tech 18-2 558 56. Northeastern St. 16-2 500 67. W. Washington 20-1 495 78. Mich. Tech. 18-2 461 89. Wayne St. 19-2 440 910. Grand Canyon 18-2 393 1211. Quincy 21-1 349 1412. Metro St. 20-1 346 1313. Dixie St. 16-2 307 1014. Alaska-Anch. 19-5 278 1515. S.C.-Aiken 19-4 267 1616. Washburn 15-4 257 1117. Bentley 18-3 247 1718. Holy Family 15-3 197 2119. Rollins 19-4 195 1920. Emporia St. 15-5 192 2021. Tarleton St. 17-2 165 2322. NW Missouri St. 17-3136 2423. Grand Valley St. 17-4129 2224. Millersville 16-4 124 1825. Johnson C. Smith 19-1 56 NROthers receiving votes: West LibertyUniversity (W.Va.) 41; California StateUniversity - Monterey Bay 39; SeattlePacific University (Wash.) 28; EdinboroUniversity (Pa.) 27; Indiana Universityof Pennsylvania 24; CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania 23; WestTexas A&M University 23; FloridaInstitute of Technology 21; FranklinPierce University (N.H.) 21; CaliforniaState Polytechnic University - Pomona19; University of Indianapolis (Ind.) 19;Harding University (Ark.) 18;Dominican College (N.Y.) 12;University of Wisconsin - Parkside 12;Pace University (N.Y.) 11; DruryUniversity (Mo.) 9; University of Tampa(Fla.) 8; Fort Valley State University(Ga.) 7; American International College(Mass.) 5; Francis Marion University

(S.C.) 5; Georgia College & StateUniversity 5; Northwest NazareneUniversity (Idaho) 5; University of WestAlabama 4; Assumption College(Mass.) 3; Augustana College (S.D.) 3;Southeastern Oklahoma StateUniversity 3; California State University- Chico 2; California State University -San Bernardino 1; College of SaintRose (N.Y.) 1; Missouri S & T 1;Ouachita Baptist University (Ark) 1.

PRO BASKETBALLNBA Scores At A GlanceAll Times ESTEASTERN CONFERENCEMonday's GamesCharlotte 94, Boston 89L.A. Lakers 93, Memphis 84Minnesota 104, New Orleans 92Dallas 99, Cleveland 96Houston 108, Denver 103Portland 109, Chicago 103Utah 107, Sacramento 104Phoenix 104, Golden State 92Tuesday's GamesPhiladelphia at Atlanta, lateL.A. Clippers at Orlando, lateSan Antonio at Detroit, lateIndiana at Miami, lateToronto at Milwaukee, lateMemphis at Oklahoma City, lateMinnesota at Houston, lateWednesday's GamesDetroit at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Indiana, 7 p.m.New Orleans at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Orlando at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Toronto, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Washington, 7 p.m.L.A. Clippers at New York, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Utah, 9 p.m.Dallas at Sacramento, 10 p.m.Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

PRO HOCKEYNHL Scores At A GlanceAll Times ESTMonday's GamesToronto 5, Atlanta 4Detroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2Edmonton 4, Nashville 0Calgary 3, Chicago 1Phoenix 3, Colorado 0Vancouver 4, Ottawa 2Tuesday's GamesCarolina at New Jersey, lateToronto at N.Y. Islanders, lateColumbus at Pittsburgh, lateSan Jose at Washington, lateBuffalo at Tampa Bay, lateSt. Louis at Florida, lateWednesday's GamesMontreal at Boston, 7 p.m.San Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.Nashville at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Ottawa at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.Chicago at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Anaheim at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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Greg Aiello wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

The Green Bay Packersbeat the Pittsburgh Steelers31-25 on Sunday at Cow-boys Stadium in Arlington,Texas. When the temporarysections were not complet-ed before the start of thegame, about 850 fans weremoved to other seats. Butthere was nowhere to putthe remaining 400.

Some of the affectedfans complained Sundaythat the $2,400 didn’t cover

the price they paid for theseats, travel and hotels.

If fans choose the firstoption of next year’s gameplus the $2,400, the ticketis transferable, whichmeans it can be sold on thesecondary ticket market. Itwon’t be transferable in theother option.

The league said a seniorNFL staff member wouldcall each of the displacedfans to provide informationabout the options andanswer questions.

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formance at Jack DobbinsField House against theBronchos. Wright, a juniorguard, shot 5 of 8 from thefloor and 4 of 5 frombeyond the 3-point arc.

With the win, the River-Hawks (17-2, 6-1 LSCNorth) pulled into a tie withUCO for first placein the North Divi-sion.

Another notableleague honoree onTuesday was Central Okla-homa’s Dauntae Williams.The senior guard fromMissouri City, Texas, wasnamed the LSC NorthMen’s Offensive Player ofthe Week with his 25-point,nine-assist showing in a77-64 win against NSU onMonday.

It was the sixth time thisseason Williams, theleague’s leading scorer, haspicked up offensive honorsin the North.

Other league honoreeson Tuesday included TexasA & M - C o m m e r c e ’ sAndrew Davis (Northoffense), Texas A&M-Kingsville’s AntwanMullins (South offense),Eastern New Mexico’sMax Carrier (Southdefense), Angelo State’sCamille Perkins (Southoffense) and TarletonState’s Kiara Wright (Southdefense).

NSU still at No. 6With the top nine in the

USAToday/ESPN Division

II Top 25 Coaches’ pollremaining intact, Northeast-ern State held its ground atNo. 6 for the second straightweek. The RiverHawks,who are ranked No. 1 in theSouth Central regionalrankings, picked up 500votes, trailing fifth-ranked

Arkansas Tech by58.

Lander Univer-sity in South Car-olina held onto its

top spot with 698 votes,including 26 first-placevotes. Lander is 23-0.

The rest of the top fourincluded Clayton State (22-0), Delta State (19-1) andFort Lewis (20-1), the onlyother school to receivefirst-places votes with two.

Millersville (16-4) suf-fered the biggest fall in thepoll, going from 18th lastweek to 24th on Tuesday.Washburn (15-4), the pre-vious owner of the No. 2spot in the South Centralregional rankings, fell from11th to 16th.

The current holder ofthe second spot in theSouth Central region, Tar-leton State (17-2), movedup from 23rd to 21st in theDivision II poll. The Tex-Anns are the only otherLone Star Conference teamin the top 25 besides NSU.

Johnson C Smith Uni-versity (N.C.) entered thetop 25 at 25th with a recordof 19-1. California StateUniversity - Monterey Bayfell out of the top 25.

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testing road conditions fol-lowing the contests.

SHS, however, was able toplay Monday night at Keyswith the Lady Indians win-ning and the SHS boys losing.

As for Keys, its basketballgames at Chouteau on Tues-day were called off prior toMonday’s home gamesagainst Sequoyah. Keys’next games are scheduled tobe Friday night at homeagainst Fort Gibson and Sat-urday night at home vs.Westville.

Hulbert, whose last gamewas on Jan. 31 at Okay, hadits games at Sallisaw Centralcanceled on Tuesday. BothHHS teams are supposed toplay at Warner — in a make-up game from Jan. 11 — onThursday.

Sequoyah, in a makeupgame from Feb. 1, is slatedto play Victory Christian atThe Place Where They Playon Thursday before travelingto play at Riverside on Satur-day.

With Tuesday’s postpone-ment, Tahlequah will have totry its hand at playing on Fri-day at Collinsville. By that

time, THS will have been off14 days since playing theirlast Metro Lakes Conferencegame.

The Tigers have also

rescheduled two home datesthat were snowed out lastweek. Tahlequah has movedits Feb. 1 game against Pryorto Saturday (girls at 6:30

p.m. and boys at 8), and theTigers’ Feb. 4 contestsagainst Skiatook will beMonday night at the sametimes.

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Kevin Busch (2) will have to wait until possibly Friday to play basketball again afterTuesday’s home game against Bartlesville was called off. The Tigers are supposed toplay at Collinsville on Friday and at home against Pryor on Saturday.

Press photo by Ben Johnson

Games

By TODD RICHMONDAssociated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. —Green Bay Packers fansrejoiced one more time withtheir cherished Super Bowlchampions during a frigidceremony Tuesday to wel-come the Lombardi Trophyback to Lambeau Field aftera 14-year absence.

Temperatures were in thesingle digits as the celebra-tion began, but the Packerdiehards were undaunted.Fans in the front row of thestadium traded high-fiveswith the players and reachedout to touch the champi-onship trophy as coach MikeMcCarthy marched past withthe hardware hoisted highover his head.

The Lombardi Trophycarries special meaning inGreen Bay because it’snamed for the Hall of Fame

coach Vince Lombardi, wholed the Packers to victories inthe first two Super Bowls.

“I will never forget this,”said Amanda Lee, 33, of Mil-waukee, who wore the No.12 jersey of quarterbackAaron Rodgers, the SuperBowl MVP. “I got to touchthe trophy, but I couldn’tactually feel it (because herhands were so cold). Itouched Aaron Rodgers’pinky! I’ll never wash myhand again.”

The celebration capped aparty that has been goingnonstop in Green Bay sinceSunday, when the Packersdefeated the Pittsburgh Steel-ers 31-25 in Arlington, Texas,to win their fourth SuperBowl title and first since1996. The ceremony shone aspotlight on the decades-oldlove affair between the teamand the NFL’s smallest-mar-ket city.

On Sunday night, thou-sands took to the streets tocelebrate amid an explosionof green-and-gold fireworks.On Monday, tens of thou-sands of hoarse but giddyfans lined the roads fromAustin Straubel InternationalAirport to Lambeau to cheeron the team’s motorcade as itreturned to the stadium.

The 56,000 tickets for theofficial “Return to Titletown”ceremony Tuesday sold outwithin hours on Monday.Fans from far and wide werein the stadium’s parking lotearly Monday morning,grilling brats, throwing downbeers and tossing footballs ina final tailgate party — nevermind a wind chill of 14below.

“The weather’s fine. I canbarely feel it,” Ken Hampp,23, of Appleton, said in theLambeau parking lot as hesipped a Budweiser, before it

froze. “That’s my favoritething about winter. You canjust stick your beer in thesnow.”

The stadium opened twohours before the ceremony.The atmosphere inside waselectric as fans watched high-lights from the past season onthe stadium’s giant televisionscreens set to a rousingorchestral soundtrack. Thecrowd waved world champi-on flags, erupted into chantsof “Go Pack Go!” anddanced to House of Pain’s“Jump Around” and the Vil-lage People’s “YMCA.”

Green Bay Mayor JimSchmitt addressed the crowdfrom a stage on the 50-yardline, announcing the citywould name a street“McCarthy’s Way” in keep-ing with a tradition that callsfor the city to name a streetafter every Super Bowl-win-ning coach.

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ably play pretty quick.”

Immediate impact play-ers

While Smith will have anopportunity to play rightaway at wide receiver, thereare other who could crack theplaying rotation in 2011.

With the departure of start-ing running back Josh Lewis,Tavares Sharp-Rhodes — thebrother of the IndianapolisColts’Dominic Rhodes and atransfer from Feather RiverCollege (Calif.) — will begiven a chance to log carriesright away.

“He (Tavares) has sat outa couple of years and is get-ting a second chance,” Evanssaid of Rhodes, who is origi-nally from Abilene, Texas.“He has a lot of talent, andwith the loss of a couple ofrunning backs, he’ll be a guythat we need.”

Also on offense, ThorLong, a 6-1, 205-pound quar-terback could fill WoodyWilson’s role as KennyDavis’ backup.

“He’s a polished, youngquarterback,” Evans said ofthe QB who threw for 2,988yards and 32 touchdowns forSherman High School in

Texas last year.Another community col-

lege signee who will begiven an early opportunity toplay is linebacker TalrisBrown, who was a top-fivelinebacker prospect out ofPensacola, Fla.

“He signed with FloridaState out of high school,”Evans said of Brown, who is6-2, 235 pounds. “He endedup at Coffeyville Communi-ty College, and he was anAll-American there. He cando amazing things on thefield.”

Oklahoma talentOf the 19 signees in Feb-

ruary, 12 are from Okla-homa, reinforcing the factthat the Sooner State pro-vides plenty of college foot-ball talent.

“I’m the son of an Okla-homa high school footballcoach,” Evans said. “And Ithink the players are wellcoached in this state.”

Evans even said that hefelt like some of the Okla-homa kids he signed couldhave signed at the Division Ilevel.

“I think we picked upsome guys in Oklahoma that

are Division I-caliber play-ers,” he said. “And a lot ofthem were recruited by Divi-sion I schools.”

While NSU loaded up onlocal players — Tahlequah’sKyle Hutchinson (OL) andPatrick Krempin (TE/DE),Muskogee’s Kyler Harris(DB) and Matt Rust (OL) andGore’s Logan Andrews(QB/LB) — the RiverHawksalso reached into other partsof the state. Other statesignees included Jenks’Dylan Beers (K), Pauls Val-ley’s Nick Crawford (LB),Cement’s Ethan Ladymon(DL), Adair’s ChristianLuper (LB), Catoosa’s ColtenNevel (DB/WR) and PutnamCity North’s Brad Ross (DL)and Nate Ross (LB).

“We felt good about theguys from the immediatearea and the state of Okla-homa,” Knoll said. “We havesome guys that come fromthe Oklahoma City area,which has been a plus for usbecause that had been a geo-graphic area that was lackinga little bit.”

Knoll addressed someadded incentives to bring inlocal players.

“It’s always a positive

when you can bring localyoung men into your pro-gram,” Knoll said. “Becauseit generates enthusiasm, itgenerates interest and it cre-ates a broader fan base.”

Notable early signeesDespite a strong core

returning on the offensiveline in 2011, Evans notedsome of the midterm signeesthat could help right away upfront.

“We are returning someoffensive linemen,” Evanssaid. “But we went ahead

and took three big offensivelinemen.”

Evans wasn’t exaggerat-ing when he used the term‘big.’ By comparison, MitchHarrison, a 6-7, 290-pounderfrom Garden City Communi-ty College, might seem like alight-weight next to ThomasJ. Jones, a Coweta nativewho is 6-6, 335-pounds fromNorthern Oklahoma A&MCollege. The third O-linesignee was Grove native, Jor-dan Karriman, who is 6-5and 320 pounds.

Another position

addressed in the fall waswide receiver. The River-Hawks signed three wide-outs, including Wagonerstandout Jermaine Sherman,who is 6-3 and 195 pounds.

And the most notableearly signee could be a trans-fer from Oklahoma State,Victor Johnson. The defen-sive back from Waco, Texas,started at Oklahoma Stateduring his freshman andsophomore seasons.

“No doubt,” Evans said,“he’s one of the most notablemidterm guys.”

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Early signees— Jahmai Coleman (6-foot-2, 163-pound, WR, Navarro

College).— Hans Cook (6-1, 205, QB, Kilgore College).— Ira Davis (6-2, 275, OL, Coffeyville Community College).— Ryan Dvorak (6-4, 250, TE, Coffeyville CC).— Mitch Harrison (6-7, 290, OL, Garden City CC).— Victor Johnson (6-1, 195, DB, Oklahoma State).— Thomas J. Jones (6-6, 335, OL, Northeastern Oklahoma

A&M College).— Vernon Jones (5-11, 165, DB, New Mexico Military

Institute).— Jordan Kerriman (6-5, 320, OL, Louisiana-Monroe).— Terrance Leach (6-0, 190, DB, Kilgore College).— James McGue (6-2, 265, DL, Trinity Valley CC).— Khalil Mitchell (5-9, 180, DB, Coffeyville CC).— Bobby Pointer (6-1, 290, DL, NEO).— Jermaine Sherman (6-3, 195, WR, NEO).— Yun Taala (6-0, 285, DL, Grossmont CC).— Andre Taylor (5-11, 180, WR, East Mississippi CC).— Faafetai Te’o (6-1, 290, DL, New Mexico Military

Institute).

February signees— Kyle Hutchinson (6-5, 280, OL, Tahlequah High School).— Patrick Krempin (6-3, 235, TE/DE, Tahlequah).— Kyler Harris (6-0, 180, DB, Muskogee).— Logan Andrew (6-3, 200, QB/LB, Gore).— Dylan Beers (6-1, 195, K, Jenks).— Talris Brown (6-2, 235, Coffeyville CC).— Nick Crawford (6-2, 220, LB, Pauls Valley).— Ross Dvorak (6-2, 250, OL, Louisburg, Texas).— Ethan Ladymon (6-1, 275, DL, Cement).— Thor Long (6-1, 205, QB, Sherman, Texas).— Christian Luper (6-1, 205, LB, Adair).— Parker McCay (6-4, 260, TE, Abilene, Texas).— Colten Nevel (6-1, 175, DB/WR, Catoosa).— Brad Ross (6-1, 260, DL, Putnam City North).— Nate Ross (6-1, 230, LB, PC North).— John Ryzman (6-0, 190, RB, Lindale, Texas).— Matt Rust (6-3, 258, OL, Muskogee).— Tavares Sharp-Rhodes (5-9, 220, RB, Feather River

College).— Chris Smith (6-1, 188, WR, Fayetteville).

NSU’s 2011 Signing List

NSU

By BRETT MARTELAssociated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Sean Payton is mov-ing his family to Dallas and the Saints have noproblem with it — however, many NewOrleans fans do.

Payton confirmed Tuesday that he buyinga house in Dallas and is moving his wife andtwo children to Texas while he remains theSaints’ head coach.

“When my wife and I relocated our fam-ily from Dallas, we had always dreamed ofsomeday settling there,” Payton said is a

statement released by the team. “We feelthat now is the best time to dothis. It’s a decision that I’msure many families have toconfront, and I don’t know ifthere is any one right or wrongdecision — just the best oneyou can make for your ownfamily.”

The decision is not sittingwill with numerous Saints fanswho’ve expressed consternationand confusion over the matter on call-inshows and internet chat sites.

Saints owner Tom Benson and MickeyLoomis both issed statements ofsupport and sounded confidentthat Payton was committed tosticking with the club that firstmade him a head coach in Janu-ary of 2006.

“Sean is our head coach,”Benson said. “Like we do witheveryone in our organization,we support them when they

need to make tough personaldecisions. Sean is making a decision in the

best interest of his family and he needs our

support and he will get it. What I do know isthat Sean is completely focused on bringingour team back to a championship.”

Loomis pointed out that it is not uncom-mon for coaches to coach in one city whiletheir permanent home is in another.

Former Colts coach Tony Dungy did sowith the Colts while his family lived in Flori-da. In the NBA, current New Jersey Netscoach Avery Johnson maintains his perma-nent home in Texas.

“This is a personal family matter for Seanand his family and after discussing it withhim, I support his decision,” Loomis said.

New Orleans fans question Payton’s relocation

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� FAITH

Barber BaptistHowdy! Snow, this little

white stuff, appears in theBible 25 times. Good thingwe only have it fall on Okla-homa just a few times.

Some states that get morehave winter sports wherethey can go sledding, skiing,ice skating an so forth. Herein Oklahoma, people go carsliding – at least, it seemslike it.

Well, the wintry mix can-celed Wednesday night serv-ices for Barber, too. I’m surepeople prayed for each otherto stay warm and safe. Ser-vices were at 11 a.m. Sundayand canceled evening servic-es. Pastor figured it would betoo slick for night-time driv-ing. God tells us to be wiseand not foolish.

The morning messagePastor Joe Taylor broughtfrom Matthew 9:35-39:“And Jesus went about allthe cities and villages, teach-ing in their synagogues, andpreaching the gospel of thekingdom, and healing everysickness and every diseaseamong the people, when hesaw the multitudes, he wasmoved with compassion onthem, because they werefainted, and were scatteredabroad as sheep having noshepherd.”

He saw a need the churchwould be entrusted with.“Thus saith he unto his disci-ples, ‘The harvest truly isplenteous, but the labourersare few.’ Pray that the Lordof the harvest, that he willsend forth labourers into hisharvest.”

It was more of a challengeto the church for it to enterinto a long-term commitmentwith the pastor, to pray forthe entire world for one year,and to see how God will leadeach individual and lead hischurch, whether it will be bya call to missions or throughsacrificial giving.

Luke 5:4-10 tells us thestory of Jesus telling SimonPeter to cast his net out tocatch some fish, even thoughthey hadn’t caught any thenight before. But Peter did ashe was told and caught morefish, than his boat could hold.In verse 10, Jesus tells Simonhe would from henceforthcatch men. Prayer is castingthe net; the net is the gospelof Jesus Christ. Faith in thenet is expecting it to be full offish.

Come and join Barber aswe seek the Lord’s will forhis church. We meet everySunday at 10 a.m. Sundaynight is AWANA, a youth-oriented program. We dohave a class for adultsWednesday night at 7.

There are church activi-ties for adults and seniorsplanned for March and April.Come and see. Rememberthe mid-winter banquet Feb.19. Happy birthday to BrettRobbins. Pray for our stateduring winter storms and forthe safety, and warmth forthe elderly and young kids,and jobs and national leader-ship.

Ron Vann

Go Ye VillageChapel

In the morning messagelast week, Chaplain Paulexamined verse 15 ofMatthew 24, in “The Abomi-nation that Causes Desola-tion.”

In verses 4-14, Jesus fore-told six signs of his comingagain that would be likelabor pains, which come atthe very end of a pregnancyand with increasing rapidityand severity until the child isborn.

Now our Lord predictsthe sign that will triggerthose birth pains. Jesus’ use

of “you” in the Olivet dis-course does not refer to thedisciples or to anyone elseliving at that time, but ratherrefers prophetically to thosewho will be living in the endtime, just before his return.

The event that activatesthe birth pain signs will be“the abomination that causesdesolation” and will be likethe abomination “spoken ofthrough the prophet Daniel.”During the end times, theantichrist will head a confed-eracy of 10 European nations(Daniel 2:40-43; 7:24), andhe will at first pretend to beIsrael’s deliverer from herenemies, and she will makean alliance with him (Daniel9:27).

But after he is victoriousover the nations from thesouth, north, and east whohave come against Israel, hewill reveal his true evil char-acter and his hatred for Israeland for God. It is while occu-pying Israel under the guiseof being her protector that theantichrist will commit “theabomination that causes des-olation.”

Halfway through theseven-year tribulation, at theend of the first 3-1/2 years,the antichrist will violentlyturn against Israel.

He will end all sacrificesin the restored Jerusalemtemple. He will desecrate therestored Jerusalem templeand demand that all theworld worship him as God.

This will then activatethe final 3-1/2 years, or theGreat Tribulation, whichwill bring about intense per-secution of Jews, JewishChristians and Gentilebelievers just beforeChrist’s returns to earth tojudge wickedness andestablish his millennialkingdom.

Nina Ellington

Peggs CommunityChurch

Services this snowymorning were opened inprayer led by Jerry Cole,with 42 present.

The devotional was readfrom Matthew 16:13-20, andthe opening song was “Just aLittle Talk With Jesus.”

Happy birthday this weekto Derek Pigeon, DaphnySetters, and Stephanie Dean.Get-well prayers and wishesare extended to Jimson Blue-bird and Joe Barnes. The sec-ond-Sunday breakfast isscheduled for next week, andthe valentine banquet is stillon for the 12th at 6:30 p.m.The Inspirations will be withus April 13.

Due to the weather, Sun-day school classes werecombined this morning.Prior to morning worship,there were specials sang byBobby and Patty Cole, andJacob Cole and DerekPigeon. Brother Rex’s textwas taken from James 5:13-20 this morning, and focusedon praying in God’s will, andseeking and knowing his willfor your life.

Our prayers hold a lot ofweight with God, and is themost powerful tool a Christ-ian has for reaching thethrone. It is not only ourdirect communication withGod, but can be the conduitthat can save our lives.Remember, Daniel wasthrown into the lion’s den tobe devoured and he wassaved by his prayers. Theydidn’t start on his way intothe den, however. He prayedopenly, several times a day,every day.

Christians can change theway our country and ourworld is going, if we will butpray in God’s will, daily,openly, and in agreementwith other Christians. We cankeep ourselves in God’s will,

and lead others to Christbefore he returns, if onlywe’ll pray, and pray in faithbelieving.

Kay Cordray

Cookson UnitedMethodist

Visitors and memberswere blessed by attendingworship during the tradition-al service last Sunday.

The weather and roadconditions caused all servic-es to be canceled except at 11a.m. Everyone was happy toget out of the house, enjoyedseeing each other and prais-ing God together.

The Rev. MarilynnSchellhamer’s message wastitled “Salt and Light.” Scrip-ture readings were Psalm112:1-10 and Matthew 5: 13-20. During children’s shar-ing, Pastor Marilynn passedout flashlights. Some werebright, some dim and somejust blinked. We are each onethe light of Jesus Christ. Thebigger our light, the morepeople are drawn to us.

What is the battery inyour light? How are you alight to the world? Someoneis always giving us a descrip-tion of what life should belike. Society has a differentview than Jesus Christ. Jesushas another description ofwhat we should be like.Expectations come fromchildhood, youth and culture.Pastor Marilynn asked us ifwe were the light to others.

What is our beacon inCookson? Cookson UnitedMethodist Church still has avision statement writtennearly 20 years ago. Ourvision is to be a beacon forChrist and a witness to ourworld, sharing our love, joyand peace with all. Somemembers of that vision teamare still active in the churchand community. They willalways be that beacon tillGod calls them home.

Pastor Marilynn asked themembers if the outside light-ed cross depicts our love andcare. Does it bring others toJesus Christ? Will othersstand outside the doorinstead of coming inside? Asindividual members, as ourlight shines so does thechurch. As we understandJesus Christ’s words andservice, others will join us.We all are sinners and haveour shortcomings. Be JesusChrist’s disciple. What is ourlight? What is our beacon?

Bibles are currently beingcollected to use for a prisonministry. Help bring thegospel of Jesus Christ to peo-ple in prison by donatingyour extra Bibles. Thanks forcaring.

Thank you for remember-ing to come to the “Stew ForYou” dinner Friday, Feb. 18,5-7 p.m. – chicken or beefsoup or stew, along withcornbread, dessert and drink.This will be a communityfellowship dinner, so every-one may enjoy great compa-ny and great food! A loveoffering will be accepted tohelp support mission activi-ties.

Cookson UnitedMethodist is on the corner ofState Highway 82 South andCookson Bend Road. Call457-5717 for small groupactivities and church times.The webpage is www.cook-sonunitedmethodist.com.The youth group, DrivenYouth Ministry, is on Face-book.

Cindy Ballew

UnitarianUniversalist

In early July 1863, thearmies of Gens. Lee andMeade battled at Gettysburg,Pa. In three days, both sidessuffered over 50,000 dead,

wounded, and missing sol-diers.

The identification of thedead, the planning of theircemetery, and their buryingbegan soon, but many bodieswere not yet finally interredby Nov. 19, 1863, when, tohonor what had happenedthere, two men spoke to20,000 people gathered tohear them.

Of the two, EdwardEverett spoke first. He hadreceived his invitation inSeptember. President Abra-ham Lincoln, the otherspeaker, had been invitedinformally and learned of hisinvitation, perhaps as late asOct. 30, from a man who washis friend and bodyguard.

Everett, a diplomat, Har-vard professor and acclaimedorator, spoke at Gettysburgfor two hours. President Lin-coln spoke next, after anintervening hymn. His 272words lasted approximatelythree minutes.

The following paragraphsare President Lincoln’swords – words that tran-scended divisiveness, blame,sectional squabbles. Wordsthat, as Garry Wills tells us in“Lincoln at Gettysburg,”hovered “far above the car-nage” and lifted the battle“beyond the historical partic-ulars, to great ideals,” purg-ing the battle itself of “gross-er matter.”

“Four score and sevenyears ago, our fathersbrought forth on this conti-nent, a new nation, con-ceived in Liberty, and dedi-cated to the proposition thatall men are created equal.

“Now we are engaged ina great civil war, testingwhether that nation, or anynation so conceived and sodedicated, can long endure.We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We havecome to dedicate a portion ofthat field, as a final restingplace for those who heregave their lives that thatnation might live. It is alto-gether fitting and proper thatwe should do this.

“But in a larger sense, wecannot dedicate – we can notconsecrate – we can not hal-low – this ground. The bravemen, living and dead, whostruggled here, have conse-crated it, far above our poorpower to add or detract. Theworld will little note, norlong remember what we sayhere, but it can never forgetwhat they did here. It is for usthe living, rather, to be dedi-cated here to the unfinishedwork which they who foughthere have thus far so noblyadvanced. It is rather for us tobe here dedicated to the greattask remaining before us –that from these honored deadwe take increased devotionto that cause for which theygave the last full measure ofdevotion – that we here high-ly resolve that these deadshall not have died in vain –that this nation, under God,shall have a new birth offreedom – and that govern-ment of the people, by thepeople, for the people, shallnot perish from the earth.”

Let us be so dedicated.See you in church!

Douglas L. Inhofe

CommunityFellowship

Welcome to CommunityChristian Fellowship, a non-denomination, Bible-preach-ing, teaching church of God,and come back to visit soon.

The snow kept us fromchurch on Wednesday andSunday. Prayer service istonight is at 6, and as always,come as you are. The Lordwill be glad to see you, andso will we! Regular servicesare Sunday school at 10 a.m.,worship service at 11 a.m.,

youth classes at 11 a.m., noservices Sunday night, andWednesday prayer service at6 p.m.

Communion, secondSunday each month; SingingSunday, third Sunday eachquarter (this March); and fel-lowship dinner, fourth Sun-day each month. The churchis on State Highway 82South at Keys.

“But God commendethhis love toward us, in that,while we were yet sinners,Christ died for us” (Romans5:8).

This is one of my favoritescriptures. It so beautifullyexpresses the nature andcharacter of God, giving us alittle better understanding ofwho he is.

In this scripture, we seethat God loves us. Notbecause we are perfectbecause we aren’t or that wedon’t make mistakes, we do.His love for us is not evenbased on the fact of us lovinghim in return. He loves thesinner, the unlovable, theimperfect. He loves uncondi-tionally, based on who he isand not on what we do.

“But God demonstratedhis love toward us.” If hesays something, he will putaction behind it. He didn’tjust say he loved us, heproved he loved us by doingsomething for us providing away to him.”

“While we were yet sin-ners.” God doesn’t wait untilall the conditions are justright or perfect to fulfill hisplans. He works according tothe council of his own will.He didn’t wait until we gotour “act together” to comeand save us from our sins –he reached out to us beforewe reached up to him.

“Christ died for us.” Thegreat love of God was so per-fectly demonstrated inChrist. There is no greaterexpression of love than to laydown your life for someone.God loved us so much that hesent his only begotten son topay the ransom price for oursins. He didn’t send an angelor another human being.Instead, he sent his best. Hesent that which was mostprecious to him – his son.

Should you be feelingunloved today, take sometime out and sit down andread this verse over and overagain and listen to what it isnot only saying but what itreveals.

It reveals the incompre-hensible love of our trulygreat and wonderful Godwho loved you so much. Heloved you when you wereundeserving, unlovely and atodds against him. He lovedyou so much that he gave uphis own son in order to havea relationship with you. Hedidn’t just say that he lovedyou, he devised a plan toshow you that he loves youand what a great plan it wasand what a great love itdemonstrated!

God showed us how greathis love is for us by sendinghis son Jesus to die for us.

Jenny Dameron

First ApostolicPrayer and songs of wor-

ship and adoration of ourLord and Savior Jesus Christopened services for Sundayafternoon, Feb. 6.

“Help In Time of Trou-ble” was taken from Psalm45:1-11. The Lord is a pres-ent help when we face trialsand trouble. In those timesthat we do not receive imme-diate help, it is for our bene-fit. He hears our prayers, buthe will give us everything wewant, lest we becomespoiled; the Lord wants us tobe mature saints.

We live in a troubledworld and trouble comes tous in many ways. We mustnever make a decision whenwe are discouraged. In ourlow times, the enemy caninfluence us to take thewrong path and lead us awayfrom God. He tries to con-

vince us that if we werewhere we needed to be withGod, we would not haveproblems. But we are notimmune to trouble in thisworld – we face family prob-lems, financial troubles andsicknesses. We need to han-dle them and control our-selves in the midst of themost severe storms thatcome. The Lord will have thefinal say in any situation.

We need to stay in touchwith God in these final daysbefore his return. We are thelight of the world. We will bepersecuted for the name ofJesus and our stand for right-eousness. We are here for apurpose. We prove what isthat good and acceptable andperfect will of God by howwe live, dress and behave.When our hearts are over-whelmed within us, we cango to that rock, Jesus Christ,that is higher than we are.

Those things that cause usproblems can be overcome.Some people have no root ordepth in their walk with God– they are tossed to and frowith every wind of doctrine.They are easily offended.But, we know that greatpeace have they that love hislaw and nothing shall offendthem. There is a place in Godwhere offenses will not both-er us.

When the word of God isput forth some allow thecares of this world and thedeceitfulness of riches andlust of other things to choke itout. These things bring dis-appointments and discour-agements, but we must havethat root within ourselves toride out the storms. TheLord will allow trials tocome our way that we maygrow in him. We must notlook on the prosperity of thewicked as we face trials, lestwe, like David, become dis-couraged. He rememberedtheir end when he went intothe house of the Lord. Wehave hope as the anchor ofour soul to stabilize us. Wecan weather any storm whenwe walk with the Lord andstay faithful to him through itall.

Two souls were baptizedin the name of Jesus for theremission of their sins andone soul was filled with theHoly Ghost. There is victoryin the house!

Feel welcome to visit anytime – Wednesday at 7:30p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m.and 6 p.m. We are two milessouth on Welling Road. Forinformation, call 431-0075.

Nancy Walker

First BaptistLove and hate are two

very strong words.Many people are saying

they “hate” the snow and thethought of more on the wayis only fueling the flame.

But many love the snow.The possibilities are endless:sledding, snowmen, snow icecream, snowball fights andthe list could go on and on.What do you love?

This Sunday, Feb. 13, is“I Love FBC Sunday.” Sun-day school at 9:30 a.m. andworship at 10:45 a.m. will bepacked full of reasons whypeople love the Lord’schurch here at First Baptist.One child put it like this: “Ilove FBC because it gets meout of the house!” Maybe hewas trying to agree withanother who said, “I loveFBC because I can fellow-ship with Christians andlearn things like how to livefor and like Jesus.”

Testimonies, fellowship,worship and Bible study aresure to be some of the rea-sons you will love FBC ifyou are here this Sunday toworship with us.

We’ll see you this Sundayas we celebrate together andworship together.

Amanda Grogan

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Well, it’s been an interest-ing time for all.

Our week began last Sun-day with an early morningwakeup at 3:15 a.m. A skunksprayed under our house. Thesmell was so strong, I couldn’tget back to sleep. Even now, aweek later, I occasionallysmell the lingering odor. Imissed church that day. I did-n’t think I’d smell very good!

Tuesday, we watched as 8inches of snow and sleet visit-ed us. We – my husband, Bob,and I – did get out Wednesdayafternoon. Thursday we drovecautiously to Muskogee to eatout and visit my brother, Bill.He’d been shopping at a large

grocery store, and they wereout of toilet paper, except for alarge-pack expensive brand.

Friday, it started snowingagain. We were expecting upto 6 inches. Well, we won’t begetting out today, that’s forsure. We haven’t gotten abovefreezing since Monday.

My sister, Boots, just calledfrom Sierra Vista, Ariz. Herswimming pool pipes havefrozen and burst, as well as her

outside faucets. Sierra Vistagot down to 3 degrees lastnight. Arizona is experiencingtheir lowest temperaturessince statehood. Her neighbor,who is out of the country, hasa hot tub with burst pipes andwater is flooding not only herback yard, but is now movinginto Boots’ backyard. Bootswill call the neighbor’s friendwho is watching the place.

Oh, Lord, I am so grateful!We have heat, water, and food.We are so blessed. My sistersaid the same prayer. Severalof her friends have no water orgas. This, too, shall pass.

Gene Ruth Brumback is anordained minister.

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� FAITH

Tahlequah Area ChurchesHulbert Church of ChristSunday MorningBible Class 10 amWorship 10:45 am

Hwy 51456-0836

Hwy 62 West, PO Box 1771 Tahlequah, OK 74464Bringing New Life To NorthEastern Oklahoma

Pastor Garland Thomas

Light of Christ Community Church

Sparrow Hawk Village 456-3421

SundayCommunion 10 a.m. • Devotional 11 a.m.

Morning Meditation 8 a.m. M-F, 9a.m. Sat.

Seventh DayAdventist Church

Saturday Morning Worship - 9:30 a.m.Bible Study - 10:45 a.m.

Saturday Evenings VespersEveryone Welcome

Pastor Timothy Scull 456-52592602 S. Muskogee Ave. • Tahlequah, OK

First BaptistChurch

201 S. Commercial Rd. • Tahlequah, OK

“Growing Healthy Families”

Weekly Schedule:9:30 a.m. - Sunday School

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Youth in the Upper Room

For more information please call (918) 456-0668 anytime!Location: One block South of Downing St.

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UKB to host gospel singingThe United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in

Oklahoma’s department of Language, History and Cul-ture will host a Cherokee gospel singing this Saturday,Feb. 12, from noon to 5 p.m. at the UKB Wellness Cen-ter, on Keetoowah Circle, which is off West Willis Road.

“We are calling all Cherokee song leaders, singers,groups and churches to come and share a song or to justcome and listen,” said Choogie Kingfisher, event coordi-nator.

For more information, call the UKB Language, Histo-ry and Culture Department at (918) 773-4326.

New UU class to be introducedPeople who would like to know more about Unitarian

Universalism are invited to a class from 6 to 7:30 p.m.Feb. 24 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Tahle-quah, led by the Rev. Doug Inhofe.

The class will focus on the various spiritual paths thatlead people to Unitarian Universalism, what the pathshave in common with each other, how they often growout of other religious backgrounds, and ways in whichUU principles become meaningful parts of life.

Participants will be welcome to share their own reli-gious histories, learn about UU history and ways ofapproaching life’s problems and talk with others follow-ing similar spiritual pathways.

The class will be open to all. No registration isrequired, but if possible, participants are asked to e-mailInhofe at [email protected] or call him at (918) 688-8722.

Souper supper fundraiser setThe Oklahoma Christian Women’s Association, with

Oklahoma Christian University, will host a souper supperfundraiser Friday, Feb. 18, at the Fellowship Hall of theSouth College Church of Christ, 410 S. College.

Taco stew, soups, dessert and drinks will be servedfrom 5-7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2 for chil-dren under the age of 12. Tickets can be purchased at thedoor.

An auction will take place at 6 p.m. during the supperfor several items, including a hand-stitched quilt.

Etchieson to host fundraiserD.D. Etchieson Church will hold an Indian taco

fundraiser the first Thursday of every month from 11 a.m.to 1 p.m. in its fellowship hall.

The next one will be March 3. Tacos will be $6 perperson and includes a drink and dessert.

Orders of five or more can be delivered and orders areasked to be made as early as possible. For more informa-tion, call Faye Morrison at (918) 207-5067.

D.D. Etchieson Church is at 412 W. Seneca.

The ill-fated “Feed YourFlock” ad is, without a doubt,the most famous 30 secondsof video that no one saw dur-ing Super Bowl XLV.

For the few who didn’tcatch it online, the ad featuresa worried pastor – in a cleri-cal collar – who has emptypews and too many unpaidbills. Thus, he prays for inspi-ration and God responds withthe sound of crunching chipsand fizzing soda.

Soon hungry souls – Jew-ish, Amish and Hare Krishnaincluded – are lining up inchurch for Doritos and PepsiMAX in a way that suggestsHoly Communion.

The brands are no sur-prise, since Media Wave Pro-ductions of Philadelphia pro-duced “Feed Your Flock” forPepsiCo’s annual “Crash theSuper Bowl” contest, inwhich flocks of folks hope towin $1 million if their cre-ation finishes No. 1 in USAToday’s Ad Meter rankings.The chips-and-soda com-munion entry didn’t qualifyfor a Super Bowl airing andhas since vanished fromYouTube and other sites afterwaves of protests byCatholics and others.

“It’s hard to imagine suchan ad being created only afew decades ago,” notedShane Rosenthal of theWhite Horse Inn weblog.“The trivialization of thesacred in this piece is nothingless than astounding. Andthat’s just it. There isn’t any-thing sacred anymore. Every-thing’s a joke.”

This offering, however,wasn’t the only attempt at aSuper Bowl ad built on reli-

gion or politics or both. Con-troversies of this kind haveincreased in recent years,with video activists on thecultural right and left doingtheir share of poking andprotesting.

If professional footballhas become a form of reli-gion, then it isn’t surprisingthat America’s ChristmasWars over faith in the publicsquare are now followed bySuper Bowl Culture Wars inthe marketplace.

This year, “Feed YourFlock” wasn’t even the only“Crash the Super Bowl”entry that used a dash of sac-rilege. In “Party Crashers,”another entry now onYouTube, God and Jesusmake a scene at a party byeating all the Doritos. Theyare asked to leave and, with asnap, Jesus miraculouslyrefills the empty snack bag.“Let’s go, Dad,” he says.

Several other ads rejectedby the Fox Sports MediaGroup this year featured reli-gious and political contentthat was too hot to be allowedinto the Super Bowl ad warswith the heavyweights likeBud Light, GoDaddy.comand Snickers.

• In one, two curious foot-ball fans turn to the Bibleafter spotting “John 3:16”written in the black patchesunder a star player’s eyes.The network said the FixedPoint Foundation video con-

tained too much “religiousdoctrine.”

• Self-proclaimed “con-servative comedian” RichardBelfry also failed in anattempt to air a commercialfor his “Jesus Hates Obama”online store that sells T-shirtsand other items with histrademark slogan. Belfry saida circle of private investorsagreed to purchase a 30-sec-ond Super Bowl slot – whichusually sell for about $3 mil-lion.

• Anti-abortion activistRandall Terry attempted anovel approach, going so faras to register as a DemocraticParty candidate for the WhiteHouse so that he could insistthat Fox air his graphic videobecause of a campaign adver-tising loophole in existingFCC regulations. Few otheropponents of abortion havetaken his side.

This is not a new story.Before the 2009 Super Bowl,CatholicVoter.com failed inan attempt to air “Imagine,”an ad featuring a sonogramvideo of an unborn childmatched with text offeringthanks that the difficult fami-ly circumstances surroundingthe young Barack Obama didnot prevent his birth.

Last year, Focus on theFamily was successful with“Celebrate Family, CelebrateLife,” an ad focused on mis-sionary Pam Tebow and herdecision to endure a riskypregnancy before givingbirth to Tim, the future Heis-man Trophy-winning quar-terback.

These media conflicts arenot connected with the toughconstitutional issues thatdrive the church-state con-flicts that have become socommon in recent decades,noted J. Brent Walker, headof the Baptist Joint Commit-tee for Religious Liberty.

Nevertheless, these faith-based controversies aboutSuper Bowl advertisements –whether silly, satirical ordead serious – seem to bestirring similar public emo-tions.

“If we lived in a culture inwhich no one cared muchabout religion,” he said,“then people wouldn’t get sopassionate about these things.But that wouldn’t be Ameri-ca, would it?”

Terry Mattingly is directorof the Washington Journal-ism Center at the Council forChristian Colleges and Uni-versities.

OnReligion

Terry Mattingly

Christian Women Unit-ed will meet Thursday,Feb. 17, in Richardson Hallat Go Ye Village, 1204 W.Fourth, at 11:30 a.m.

The speaker will beTina Newberry, known forher gift of portrayingwomen of the Bible.

She was born in Stilwelland received her degree inearly childhood educationfrom the University of Ten-nessee.

She married Mike New-berry in 1987 and theyhave two children:Andrew, 18 and Charity,17.

MIke and Tina Newber-

ry have served as pastors inArkansas, Tennessee, Mis-souri and Oklahoma. Theyare now pastors in theTahlequah area, and Tina isworking as church secre-tary.

Her talents includebeing an actress, singer,writer, speaker, and untilrecently, a teacher of musicin the Stilwell schools.

She says she’s alwayshad a heart for helpingwomen who are hurting,and is in the process ofincorporating a non-profitorganization to ministry forwomen who have just beenreleased from prison and

have no place to go tomake the transition to a lifefreedom.

Christian Women Unit-ed is a part of As OneWomen's Ministry ofTahlequah Inc., a non-profit organization madeup of women from differ-ent churches and denomi-nations who come togeth-er as sisters in Christ towork as one to addressneeds of women in Tahle-quah.

For more information,contact Zana at (918) 456-0411 or e-mail [email protected] or www.asoneministries.com.

Newberry to speak to CWU Grateful for heat and water

Religious ads fail to make cutfor the Super Bowl XLV game

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CHICAGO (AP) — Manybreast cancer patients can skipaggressive lymph node sur-gery without increasing theirchances of a recurrence ordeath if their disease showslimited spread, according to astudy that has promptedchanges in practice.

Under current guidelines,the often-debilitating surgeryis done if the cancer hasspread outside the breast toany lymph nodes.

In the study, rates of sur-vival and of patients’ remain-ing cancer-free were just asgood whether the womenwith limited spread — in oneor two nearby nodes — hadlots more underarm nodesremoved or skipped thatmajor surgery.

At least 24,000 of the180,000 U.S. women diag-nosed every year with breastcancer have limited spread tolymph nodes. Under the stan-

dard approach, they wouldhave a chunk of underarm tis-sue removed to check for fur-ther cancer spread, said Dr.Thomas Julian, a breast can-cer specialist with West PennAllegheny Healthcare Systemin Pittsburgh. He was notinvolved in the study.

That operation oftenleaves women with lastingarm swelling, stiffness andpain.

The results suggest that

tens of thousands of womencould be spared aggressivenode surgery and those trou-bling side effects, said studyauthor Dr. Armando Giuliano,cancer surgery chief at theJohn Wayne Cancer Institutein Santa Monica, Calif.

“This is really a movetoward less radical surgery”for breast cancer patients, hesaid.

That move began severalyears ago when doctors

stopped routinely removingentire breasts and surroundingtissue, except for women withmore advanced disease.

The study refutes previousresearch suggesting a greaterchance for recurrence whencancer is found in one or twonodes. The difference may bethe overall treatment given tothe women in the study.

All had relatively early dis-ease, with spread to no morethan two nodes. They weretreated with lumpectomies toremove their tumors and acommon type of radiation thatcovers the breast and under-arm area. Most also hadchemotherapy, hormone treat-ment, or both.

American Society of Sur-gical Oncology guidelinesrecommend aggressive nodesurgery for such women. Thegroup is doing a periodicguideline review, and thestudy results likely will lead tosome changes, said Dr. GaryLyman of Duke University,co-chair of a panel involved inthose guidelines.

“This certainly is a pivotalstudy and an important addi-tional piece of information inan area that we’ve been wait-ing for,” Lyman said.

The study appears inWednesday’s Journal of theAmerican Medical Associa-tion. Some details were pre-sented at a medical meetinglast year and led many doctorsto adopt the new approach.That includes breast surgeonsat New York’s MemorialSloan-Kettering Cancer Cen-ter and the M.D. AndersonCancer Center in Houston,according to study co-authorsfrom those institutions.

The results confirm theapproach is safe, and doctorscan feel confident recom-mending it, said Dr. NoraJaskowiak, surgical directorof the breast center at Univer-sity of Chicago Medical Cen-ter. The study involved about850 women who had initialbiopsies showing cancer had

spread to one or two nearbylymph nodes.

Lymph nodes are tinystructures linked by a networkof vessels throughout the bodythat are part of the disease-fighting immune system.When cancer spreads, it typi-cally travels first to nearbynodes. About half of thewomen were randomly ass-igned to receive the more inva-sive node surgery; the remain-der skipped that surgery.

Roughly 92 percent inboth groups were still alivefive years later, and 83 percentin both groups had no cancerrecurrence. Seventy percentof women in the surgerygroup had complications,including underarm swellingand wound infection, versus25 percent in group thatskipped it.

Julian, the Pittsburghbreast surgeon, said therewere limitations to theresearch, including howwomen were recruited. Theresearchers approachedwomen who already knewtheir initial lymph node biop-sy results, and only about halfas many women as anticipat-ed agreed to be in the study.Higher-risk women whowanted conventional nodesurgery may have chosen notto participate, which couldhave skewed the results.

The study authorsacknowledge that limitationbut said even high-risk studyparticipants, those with breastcancer that doesn’t respond tohormone treatment, had goodlong-term survival rates evenwithout the node surgery.

Julian said lack of extend-ed follow-up is also a concern.

“You need to have 10years to really know that it’sgoing to hold water,” he said.

He said he has cautiouslyadopted the study approachwith older patients, but onlyon a case-by-case basis withwomen 50 or younger, whohave longer to live and moretime for cancer to recur.

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Sealed proposals will bereceived by the City ofTahlequah, City Clerk’sOffice, at 111 SouthCherokee in Tahlequah,Oklahoma until 10:00 a.m.,Wednesday, March 2,2011, for the Forms, Laborand Equipment required forthe placement of theConcrete and Steel(Reinforcing and Plate)necessary to constructReinforced Concrete PushWalls, footings, bollards,drains, door frames, andfloor for a Solid WasteTransfer Station. The pro-posals will be opened andread aloud at 201 EastDelaware, in theAdministrative ConferenceRoom of the ArmoryMunicipal Center inTahlequah, OK, at 2:00p.m., Thursday, March 3,2011. Any bids receivedafter the above time anddate will be returnedunopened. The bid shallconsist of one item as listedbelow:Forms and Equipment forConcrete Placement1 L-SumCopies of the Plans,Specifications and ContractDocuments are on file withthe City Clerk inTahlequah, Oklahoma andare open for public inspec-

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CJ-2010-261Notice is given that on the9th day of March, 2011, at10:00 a.m., at the Northdoor of the CountyCourthouse, in the City ofTahlequah, CherokeeCounty, Oklahoma, theSheriff of said County willoffer for sale and sell, withappraisement, for cash, atpublic auction, to the high-est and best bidder, all thatcertain real estate inCherokee County,Oklahoma to-wit:

A piece, Parcel or Tractof Land located inSection 17, Township 16North, Range 22 East,Cherokee County,Oklahoma more particu-larly described as fol-lows: BEGINNING at apoint 200 feet East of theSW Corner of the NW4of NE4 of NE4 of saidSection 17; thence East70 feet; thence North316 feet; thence West 70feet; thence South 316feet to the POINT OFBEGINNING.And a Tract of Land lyingin the NW4 of NE4 ofNE4 of Section 17,Township 16 North,

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Range 22 East, moreparticularly described asfollows, to-Wit: BEGIN-NING at the SW Cornerof said NW4 NE4 NE4;Thence East 200.00feet; thence N 0deg.03'W, 316.00 feet;Thence West 200.00feet; Thence S 0 deg.03'E, along the Westboundary of said NW4NE4 NE4, 316.00 feet tothe POINT OF BEGIN-NING, according to theU.S. Survey thereof,Cherokee County,Oklahoma;

subject to unpaid taxes,advancements by Plaintifffor taxes, insurance premi-ums and expenses neces-sary for the preservation ofthe subject property, if any,said property having beenduly appraised at$87,500.00. Sale will bemade pursuant to a SpecialExecution And Order OfSale issued in accordancewith judgment entered inthe District Court ofCherokee County,Oklahoma, in Case No. CJ-2010-261, entitled ChaseHome Finance, LLC,Plaintiff, vs. MichaelChristopher Kula,Tobiatha Lynn Kula,John Doe; Jane Doe,being all of the Defendantsand persons holding orclaiming any interest or lienin the subject property.

Norman Fisher, SheriffCherokee County,

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Attorneys for PlaintiffP.O. Box 18486Oklahoma City, OK73154-0496Telephone: (405) 842-7722Facsimile:(405) 848-9349BTCC FILE NO.: 68281

Published in the TahlequahDaily Press January 26,2011, February 2, and 9,2011.IN THE DISTRICT COURT

IN AND FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY

STATE OF OKLAHOMAM & T BANK; )

Plaintiff, )vs. )RICHARD R. HARP; )et al. )

Defendants. )Case No. CJ-2010-362

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PUBLICATIONTHIS IS AN ATTEMPT TOCOLLECT A DEBT ANDANY INFORMATIONOBTAINED WILL BEUSED FOR THAT PUR-POSE.THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA TO:

RICHARD R. HARP;KARRIE A HARP, IF LIV-ING, AND IF DECEASEDTHEIR HEIRS, PERSON-AL REPRESENTA-TIVES, DEVISEES,TRUSTEES, SUCCES-SORS AND ASSIGNSAND THE UNKNOWNSUCCESSORSGREETINGS:

You are hereby notifiedthat you have been sued byPlaintiff in the above causein the District Court ofCherokee County,

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Oklahoma, entitled M & TBank, Plaintiff v. RichardR. Harp and Karrie A.Harp, et al., Defendants,and that you must answerthe Petition of said Plaintiffon or before the 19th day ofMarch, 2011, or the allega-tions of said Petition will betaken as true and a judg-ment will be entered for thesums due under the Noteand Mortgage which arethe subject of said suit inthe amount of $80,500.92with interest, attorney feesand all costs and a Decreeordering foreclosure of saidMortgage, barring yourinterest in the followingdescribed real property:Lot Ten (10 BlockThree (3) in INDIANMEADOWS ESTATES,Cherokee County,State of Oklahoma,according to the offi-cial plat thereof, com-monly known as 20935S. Vina Ave.,Tahlequah, OK 74464(the “Property”)

DATED this 21st day ofJanuary, 2011.

COURT CLERK OFCHEROKEE COUNTY

By: /s/B. McCarter,Deputy Clerk

KIVELL, RAYMENT ANDFRANCISA ProfessionalCorporationJason Howell, OBA #19128Triad Center I, Suite 5507666 East 61st StreetTulsa, Oklahoma 74133Telephone (918) 254-0626Facsimile (918) 254-7915E-mail: [email protected] FOR PLAIN-TIFFFile #17979/JH

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Published in the TahlequahDaily Press February 2, 9and 16, 2011.IN THE DISTRICT COURTOF CHEROKEE COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMA

INTERNATIONAL BANK )OF COMMERCE, a )Texas state banking )association, )

Plaintiff, )-vs- )PHILLIP D. GRAY, if )living, or if said person )be deceased, then his )unknown successors, )if any; JANE DOE, )spouse of Phillip D. )Gray, if living, or if said )person be deceased, )then her unknown )successors, if any; )JOHN DOE, whose true )name is unknown; and )STATE OF OKLAHOMA, )EX REL. OKLAHOMA )TAX COMMISSION, )

Defendants. )Case No. CJ-2011-26

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

THE STATE OF OKLA-HOMA TO: Phillip d.Gray and Jane, doe,spouse of Phillip D. Gray,if living, or if said per-sons be deceased, thentheir unknown succes-sors, if anyYou will take notice thatyou have been sued in theDistrict court of CherokeeCounty, State ofOklahoma, in Cause No.CJ-2011-26, whereinInternational Bank ofCommerce, a Texas statebanking association, isplaintiff and Phillip D. Gray,if living, or if said person bedeceased, then hisunknown successors, ifany, et al., are defendants,

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and you must answer thePetition therein on orbefore the 21st day ofMarch, 2011, or thePetition will be taken astrue and judgment will betaken against you pursuantto the allegations of saidPetition, adjudging themortgage an security inter-est of the plaintiff to be priorand superior to your right,title and interest in the fol-lowing described real prop-erty and mobile homelocated thereon located inCherokee County, State ofOklahoma, to-wit:

LOT 13, IN BLOCK 2,LITTLE FARMS FIRSTADDITION TO GREENVALLEY ESTATES, INC.CHEROKEE COUNTY,OKLAHOMA, ACCORD-ING TO THE RECORD-ED PLAT THEREOF.

and foreclosing the plain-tiff’s said mortgage andsecurity interest, and order-ing said property sold, withor without appraisement,as plaintiff may elect at thetime judgment is taken, allof which you will take duenotice.

(Seal)CHEROKEE COUNTY

COURT CLERKBy: P. Hall

DeputyJames R. Waldo - OBA# 9278Mock, Schwabe, Waldo,Elder, Reeves & BryantFourteenth FloorTwo Leadership Square211 North RobinsonOklahoma City, Oklahoma73102Telephone:(405) 235-1110ATTORNEYS FORINTERNATIONAL BANKOF COMMERCE

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