Volume 113 No. 04 75 Cents Thursday April 28, 2011P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail bcnews@ptsi.net

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DEATHS-PG. 3

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

EARL DAVIDSON- 85LEOTA WHEELER- 78WALTER MCDANIEL- 97BORN ON APRIL 28

1758 James MonroeWestmoreland VA, 5th USPresident (1817-25, Demo-cratic Republican)1926 Harper Lee author(To Kill a Mockingbird)1929 Carolyn Jones Ama-rillo TX, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)1941 Ann-Margret[Olsson] Valsjobya Sweden,actress (Bye Bye Birdie,Carnal Knowledge, VivaLas Vegas, Tommy)1950 Jay Leno New Roch-elle, comedian/talk showhost (Tonight Show)THIS DAY IN HISTORY

APRIL 280585 War between Lydia &Media ended by solareclipse1788 Maryland becomesthe 7th state to ratify theconstitution1789 Fletcher Christianleads Mutiny on HMSBounty & Captain WilliamBligh1919 1st jump with Army AirCorp (rip-cord type) para-chute (Les Irvin)1942 “WWII” titled so, asresult of Gallup Poll

4-24Kenneth Wayne Ferguson-DUI, TOC-alcohol, bondedout.

SOMETHING TO THINKABOUT

If the tracks on a typicalcompact disc ran in astraight line, they wouldtravel for about threemiles.

Photo by Mike BarnesThis 1999 International Truck, owned by CimarronCounty overturned Thursday afternoon last week. Thedriver, Jeff Barnes, had internal injuries.

A Cimarron County District3 1999 International dump truckoverturned Thursday afternoon,April 21. The driver, JefferyBarnes, 33, was injured andtransferred to Morton CountyKan., Memorial Hospital withinternal injuries.

According to District 3 Com-missioner Tommy Grazier,Barnes was released from thehospital on Saturday, but hasn’treturned to work. Grazier ex-plained that Barnes had anothercheck-up on Friday, and pend-ing the results of that examina-tion, he will be allowed back towork with a doctors OK.

Grazier added that the truckcould well be totaled.

County Employee Injured inTraffic Accident on ThursdayBy C.F. David

According to the report filedby OHP Trooper BrandonBussey, the accident occurred atabout 2:40 p.m., three miles northand 10 miles east of Keyes, ona county road. The location wasjust south of U.S. 56 near Sturgis.

According to Bussey, thetractor-trailer was eastboundwhen it departed the roadwayto the right, and overturned tothe passenger side of the truck.

Barnes was not wearing aseat belt, although the truck wasequipped.

Bussey was assisted by OHPTrooper Boyd Perry, the KeyesPolice Department, Keyes FireDepartment and the KeyesEMS.

The Wildcat track teams traveled to Laverne Friday the22nd. The Lady Cats won the meet and the boys didgood. The teams then traveled Monday to Turpinto compete in the Conference Meet. The Lady Cats wonthe meet with 214 points with their closest competitorscoring 131.5 making the Lady Wildcats the ConferenceChamps. The boys are improving and did well amongsttheir competitors.

2011 CROPREPORTINGREMINDERSHere are some reminder

dates from the Cimarron CountyFarm Service Agency (FSA) forproducers participating in Con-servation Reserve Program(CRP), Direct & Counter-cycli-cal Program (DCP), AverageCrop Revenue Election Pro-gram (ACRE), Non-insuredAssistance Program (NAP),Supplemental Revenue Assis-tance Payments Program(SURE), Livestock Forage Di-saster Program (LFP), Emer-gency Livestock AssistanceProgram (ELAP), Loan Defi-ciency Payment (LDP) or re-quest a commodity loan. Pro-ducers are required to report allcrops planted or growing on their

LIVESTOCKFORAGE

DISASTERPROGRAM

It would appear that at thistime Cimarron County willqualify for the Livestock ForageDisaster Program (LFP). LFPprovides compensation to eligiblelivestock producers that havesuffered grazing losses for cov-ered livestock on land that isnative or improved pasturelandwith permanent vegetativecover or is planted specificallyfor grazing. Grazing losses mustbe due to a qualifying droughtcondition during the normalgrazing period for the county.To be eligible a producer mustown or lease grazing land orpastureland physically located ina county rated by the U.S.Drought Monitor. CimarronCounty is currently listed as aD3 Drought-Extreme.

Eligible livestock are: •al-pacas, beef cattle, buffalo, bee-falo, dairy cattle, deer, elk, emus,equine, goats, llamas, poultry,reindeer, sheep or swine thathave been or would have beengrazing the eligible grazing landor pastureland; •Have beenowned, purchased or enteredinto a contract to purchase dur-ing the 60 days prior to the be-ginning date of a qualifyingdrought or fire condition; •Havebeen held by a contract groweror sold or otherwise disposed ofdue to a qualifying drought con-dition during the current produc-tion year or one or both of thetwo production years immedi-ately preceding the current pro-duction year; •Have been main-tained for commercial use aspart of a farming operation onthe beginning date of the eligibledrought or fire condition;

Ineligible livestock are: •Notproduced and maintained forreasons other than commercialuse as part of a farming opera-tion. (Such excluded uses in-clude, but are not limited to, wildfree roaming animals or animalsused for recreational purposessuch as pleasure, hunting, pets,roping or for show); •Not have

been livestock that were orwould have been in a feedlot onthe beginning date of the quali-fying drought or fire as part ofthe normal business operation ofthe producer.

Eligible producers must: •Re-port losses due to a qualifyingdrought or fire no later than 30calendar days after the end ofthe calendar year in which thegrazing loss occurred; •Obtaina policy or plan of insurance forthe grazed forage crop under theFederal Crop Insurance Act(FCIA) or be covered by theNoninsured Crop Disaster As-sistance Program (NAP);•Own, cash or share lease, orbe a contract grower of coveredlivestock during the 60 calendardays before the beginning dateof a qualifying drought or fire;•Provide pastureland or grazingland for covered livestock, in-cluding cash-rented pasturelandor grazing land that is physicallylocated in a county affected bya qualifying drought during thenormal grazing period for thecounty or rangeland managed bya federal agency for which theotherwise eligible livestock pro-ducer is prohibited by the fed-eral agency from grazing thenormally permitted livestock be-cause of a qualifying fire; •Cer-tify that they have suffered agrazing loss because of a quali-fying drought or fire; •Timelyfile an acreage report for allgrazing land for which a loss ofgrazing is being claimed.

Payments are equal to 1, 2,or 3 times the LFP monthly pay-ment rate. The LFP monthlypayment rate for drought isequal to 60 percent of the lesserof the monthly feed cost; •Forall covered livestock owned orleased by the eligible livestockproducer; •Calculated by usingthe normal carrying capacity ofthe eligible grazing land of theeligible livestock producer. To-tal LFP payments to an eligiblelivestock producer in a calendaryear for grazing losses will notexceed three monthly paymentsfor the same livestock.

Additional information isavailable on the internet at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/ok.

farms annually and if participat-ing in ACRE report the previ-ous year’s crop production.

Here are some of the upcom-ing deadlines/dates:

· May 31st - Final date to re-port fall seeded and springseeded small grain crops.

· August 1st – Final date toreport all other crops (sorghum,corn, warm season grasses).

· June 1st – Final date to en-roll in the DCP or ACRE.

· July 15th – Final date forproducers participating in ACREto provide 2010 production po-tential program benefits.

· 15 Days – Producers arereminded to report losses onNAP crops within 15 days ofwhen the loss becomes appar-ent to the producer or 15 daysbefore the onset of harvest orgrazing of the crop acreage be-ing reported.

BEER CITYGALS TELLAREA HISTORY

Five years ago three enter-prising women from the areacreated a Reader’s Theatre pro-gram for the Guymon Chapterof the No Man’s Historical So-ciety. They meant it to be a one-time performance. However,during the past four years theyhave found themselves invitedover and over again to tell thestory of Beer City, a notorious,real-life town just south of Lib-eral, Kansas. They portray theactual characters of PussycatNell, a madam who ran the Yel-low Snake saloon; the story ofBrushy Bush, the self-appointedsheriff in an area without anylaws or order of any kind; Mrs.Charles Summers and Mrs.Burris Wright who have cometo the town as WCTU ladies toclean the place up! Their per-formance is based on courtrecords from Paris, Texas, thenearest place for a trial, as wellas on newspaper accounts fromtwo different Liberal newspa-pers in 1888, the time of the in-cidents portrayed in the perfor-mance. Although there is norecord of the W.C.T.U. ladiesactually coming to Beer City, theladies portrayed were actual wellknown Liberal women, and thename of Charles Summers ap-pears over a business buildingat 2nd Street and Kansas Av-enue.

Ironically, although the site ofBeer City disappeared fornearly 80 years, today thrivingbusinesses such as the BingoParlour and others sit on almostthe exact site.

The Beer City Gals will per-form their Reader’s Theatreproduction at the Cimarron Heri-tage Museum at 7:00 p. m. onMay 10.

LawmakersPraise Gover-nor for Sign-ing GunRights Law

OKLAHOMA CITY –State Reps. Steve Vaughan andMike Ritze today praised Gov.Mary Fallin for signing legisla-tion that strengthens Oklaho-mans’ Second Amendmentrights.

“I greatly appreciate Gover-nor Fallin for standing up for theself-defense rights of law-abid-ing citizens,” said Vaughan, R-Ponca City. “Unfortunately, cur-rent law did not make clear thatbusiness employees can defendthemselves with lethal forcewhen their lives were threat-ened. Now, those workers willnot have to fear jail time if theyshoot a robber.”

This week, Fallin signed intolaw House Bill 1439, by Vaughanand co-authored by Ritze. Thebill expands the right to usedeadly force to business em-ployees who have reason to feardeath or great bodily harm. Pre-viously, state law allowed indi-viduals to use deadly force onlyin their homes; HB 1449 ex-pands that right to include theirplace of business.

“We’ve all seen news reportswhere a clerk or small businessowner was brutally assaulted,”said Ritze, R-Broken Arrow.“Those citizens should have theright to self-defense withouthaving to second-guess them-selves or fear prosecution.”

The new law will go into ef-fect Nov. 1.

The Senate Republican Ru-ral Caucus met with membersof the Forestry Division from theDepartment of Agriculture todayto discuss pressing issues re-garding wildfires. Oklahoma hasalready seen a large amount ofwildfires this year, and will onlyincrease with the lack of rain-fall expected in the western halfof the state.

“We want to give our ruralfire departments access to ev-ery possible resource,” saidSenator Ron Justice, R-Chickasha and Chair of the Re-publican Rural Caucus. “Theyhave been courageously fight-ing wildfires with limited supply,and we need to help them re-coup these costs in every waywe can.”

The Rural Caucus urges ru-ral fire departments to seek theaid that is available to them. FireManagement Assistance Grants(FMAGs) are available throughthe Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA).These FMAGs will provide re-covery assistance to fire depart-ments and other emergency or-ganizations for the expense ofresources necessary to respond.The FMAGs allow up to 75%reimbursement of expenses.

Once the state has accumu-lated $600,000 of expense orgreater to fight wildfires, thedepartments can apply for fed-eral aid.

FMAGS are processed

Senate Republican RuralCaucus Urge Rural FireDepartments to Seek Aid

through the Oklahoma Depart-ment of Agriculture, ForestryDivision. Oklahoma has 11 ru-ral fire department coordinatorsthat are responsible for dissemi-nating information and aware-ness of the grants and applica-tion process to fire departmentsthroughout the state. Once afire department completes a let-ter for reimbursement, it is sentback to the Forestry Division atthe Dept. of Ag and they clearthe request through FEMA. Turnaround usually takes 30 to45 days for a department to re-ceive support.

The Oklahoma Departmentof Agriculture will be sending aletter to all rural fire departmentsinforming them of the FMAG ifthey have not been previouslymade aware of the grant.

“Unfortunately some politi-cians will use this as a time tofind cameras and point fingers,but we are just concerned aboutwhat really matters which isgetting our fire departments theaid that they need. We encour-age fire departments affected byrecent wildfires to apply for as-sistance if they are in need,”Justice concluded.

For more information abouthow to complete an FMAG ap-plication, rural fire departmentsare encouraged to contactBlayne Arthur with the Okla-homa Department of Agricul-ture, at (405) 522-6105.

PRESIDENT DE-CLARES A MAJOR DI-SASTER FOR OKLA-HOMA

WASHINGTON — TheThe Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency (FEMA) an-nounced that federal disaster aidhas been made available to Okla-homa to supplement the stateand local recovery efforts in thearea struck by severe storms,tornadoes, and straight-linewinds on April 14.

The President’s actionmakes Federal funding availableto affected individuals in Atokacounty. Assistance can includegrants for temporary housingand home repairs, low-cost loansto cover uninsured propertylosses, and other programs tohelp individuals and businessowners recover from the effectsof the disaster.

Federal funding is also avail-able on a cost-sharing basis forhazard mitigation measuresstatewide.

Individuals and business inthe designated county can be-gin applying at http://www.disasterassistance.gov, byweb enabled mobile device atm.fema.gov or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA(3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hear-ing and speech impaired. Thetoll-free telephone numbers willoperate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.(local time) seven days a weekuntil further notice.

PHOBIASAlektorophobia - Fear of

chickens.Allodoxaphobia - Fear of

opinions.Aphenphosmphobia - Fear

of being touched.Caligynephobia - Fear of

beautiful women.C h r o m e t o p h o b i a /

Chrematophobia - Fear ofmoney.

Coulrophobia - Fear ofclowns.

Ergophobia - Fear of work.Lachanophobia - Fear of

vegetables.Peladophobia - Fear of bald

people.Theophobia - Fear of gods

or religion.Vestiphobia - Fear of cloth-

ing.“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question

without debating it.” - Joseph Joubert