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In Brief Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420 16 Pages Saturday October 27, 2013 No. 54 of the 125th Year Halloween ghosts and gob- lins will be out and about in Kingfisher starting this week- end. County 4-H clubs will have their annual “Fright Night” Saturday evening at the MAC Center at the fairgrounds in Kingfisher with activities for all ages. Pumpkin decorating will be held from 5 to 6 p.m., carnival booths will be in operation from 6 to 7 p.m. and a costume contest will begin at 7 p.m. A petting booth with baby calves and sheep will also be available. A concession stand will be in operation throughout the event. Chisholm Trail Museum is hosting its annual Halloween Fun Day from 1-3 p.m. Satur- day. The event includes crafts, a scavenger hunt and costume contest. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children ages 6-18. Younger children are admit- ted free. Trick-or-treat in the down- town area will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Hal- loween, with residential trick or treating from 6 to 8 p.m. Police Chief Dennis Baker reminded motorists to be es- pecially watchful for excited trick-or-treaters on Thursday when the little spooks are vis- iting the downtown and resi- dential areas to obtain treats. County 4-H Agent Megan Meyer said the fright night is held annually to create a safe outing for little hobgoblins. Halloween fun set Saturday Kingfisher County commis- sioners will take up several annual agreements at their weekly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the courthouse. The first agenda item calls for commissioners to consider invoices from the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce for the Greater Oklahoma City Eco- nomic Foundation for the county and the Kingfisher County Industrial Authority in the amount of $750.20 each. Commissioners also will consider a master service agreement between the county and Southwestern Bell Tele- phone, a request from the Kingfisher-Blaine County Drug Court to remove Deborah McGee as requesting officer and Pat Pettus as re- ceiving officer and add Terry Rice and Dwaine Richey as receiving officers, schedule county holidays for the 2014 calendar year, act on a right- of-way requisition services agreement to acquire right-of- way on road and bridge project 137(076) RB (Rice Bridge) in District 1, and act on a lease agreement with Yellowhouse Machinery-John Deere Credit for a John Deere grader 770G for District 3. Three county road crossing permit requests also appear on the agenda. County to talk annual pacts KINGFISHER HIGH School’s photography students continue to garner awards. Staff members include: Dillon Smith, Lucas Norris (Asst. Chief), Austin Gruber, Dillon Laster, Sean Borelli and Houston Payne. Seated: Lauren Mcadam, Katie Winnicki (Chief), and Kaitlin St. Cyr. Inset are St. Cyr, seated, Payne, left, and Minton, looking over St. Cyr’s winning photograph. [Photo Courtesy KHS Photography] Dr. A.J. Johnson, director of the Kingfisher High School photography program, has announced that sev- eral photography students have been awarded state and national recogni- tion of their work. The state photography winners selected for a national exhibition in- clude current students Kaitlyn St. Cyr, Caitlyn Minton, Brayden Foley, Houston Payne and Katie Winnicki, plus recent graduates Alyssa Cox, Nicholas Ryan and Savannah Gilley, who were selected for digital exhibi- tion. St. Cyr, a junior, received first honorable mention at the national show on her night photo of the Scis- sortail Bridge over I-40 in Oklahoma City and Minton received second honorable mention nationally for a photo taken in Colorado of “The Great American Basin.” Johnson said there were 795 en- tries submitted from state contests, 220 of which were accepted for exhi- KHS photo students honored [See Photo Page 15] The city commission will decide whether to reinstate former fire chief Randy Poindexter at a special meet- ing at 2 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. According to an agenda posted late Thursday afternoon, the public hearing may include presentations from City Manager Dave Slezickey and Poindexter or their representa- tives regarding the termination deci- sion before the city commission votes to enter executive session for addi- tional discussion and deliberations. Commissioners may move to the City Hall Annex (the former Tuscany Flowers and Gifts located directly north of City Hall) for the closed executive session, according to the agenda. Commissioners will return to open session to take a formal vote on the reinstatement request. Slezickey dismissed Poindexter Sept. 25 after six and a half years as fire chief. Prior to his termination, Poindexter had been placed on paid administrative leave following a dis- ciplinary hearing Sept. 12 attended by the fire chief, his attorney, Slezickey and City Attorney Jared Harrison. Commission’s current role Some of the 12 citizens who spoke on Poindexter’s behalf at the Oct. 15 HearingTuesday on former chief’s appeal Citizen group starts recall petition A group calling itself “Concerned Citizens for King- fisher” set up a Facebook page Wednesday with a link to a petition calling for the recall of Kingfisher Mayor Jack Stuteville. Apparently in response to a phone tip about the peti- tion, an Oklahoma City Fox 25 reporter and cameraman visited Kingfisher Wednesday afternoon, then set up at a special city meeting where Stuteville addressed the re- porter directly before taking up the two unrelated items on the brief agenda. The same station has sent crews to Kingfisher a num- ber of times in the last several months, generating prima- rily negative stories about local government officials. “There’s nothing on this agenda, but you’re here again to put us in a bad light,” Stuteville told the reporter. “If you want to come down and do a story, we’ve got a lot of nice things to talk about. “We’re a wonderful town and we’ve got wonderful people.” Stuteville declined to respond on camera to a ques- tion from the TV reporter about the petition and in- stead began discussing the two scheduled agenda items (see related story). On its face, the petition appears to have been trig- gered at least in part by the termination of former fire chief Randy Poindexter since two of the three items listed as alleged grounds for Stuteville’s recall mention the termination decision by City Manager Dave Slezickey. Stuteville was first elected mayor in 2008, when he defeated former commissioner Mark Mueggenborg after the death of then-mayor Dick Flood. He was elected to a second four-year term without opposition in 2012 and is prohibited from running for a third consecutive term by the city charter’s term limit provision. The city charter provides that an election can be [See Petition Page 15] Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church youth group will be trick or treating Wednesday night to fill the shelves of the Kingfisher County Food Bank. Teens will go door-to-door in Kingfisher from 6-8 p.m. collecting nonperishable food items. Residents interested in do- nating can leave the items on the porch with the light turned on. “If we don’t make it by your house and you’d like to do- nate, please call me at 368-6937 and we’ll schedule a time to pick up your donation,” Johanna Adams said. Youth to collect food donations commission meeting expressed out- rage that the mayor and commission- ers did not immediately overrule Slezickey’s decision. However, both state law and the current city charter leave most person- nel matters under the exclusive control of the city manager until an appeal is filed calling for commissioners to re- view the decision in a public hearing. As opposed to a strong-mayor form of government in which the mayor acts as chief administrator with au- thority over all city functions, King- fisher operates as a commission-city manager government, according to section 1.2.10 of its charter. Under Kingfisher’s charter, the mayor is the “presiding officer at all meetings of the commissioners and shall have the same voting privileges as commissioners” (Section 2.2) and is “the representative of the City at all social and public functions” and “shall sign all official documents and conveyances and instruments which bind the city” (Section 2.2.1). The charter gives the mayor and commissioners authority to hire the [See Hearing Page 15] Kingfisher city commissioners voted to approve a one-year contract with The Grounds Guys of Edmond to read the city’s 4,800 water and electric meters at a cost of $89,544. The Grounds Guys have been read- ing meters on a temporary basis after the city discovered that its previous contractor had been estimating meter readings for months, resulting in many utility customers receiving large ad- justment bills this summer as the er- rors were uncovered. City Manager Dave Slezickey said tThe Grounds Guys contract was more than twice the cost of the previous contract of 75 cents per meter per month (amounting to about $38,000 last year). However, the company is provid- ing a semi-automated process involv- ing an iPad app that allows the read- ers to take a photo of each meter read- ing, with a date, time and location stamp, to provide greater accuracy and accountability. “We’re looking for a way to allow the information generated by their iPads to interface directly with our system,” he said. “If we’re not able to do that, they’ll generate the informa- tion in spreadsheet format that we’ll use to input in our system.” Commissioner Janet Clark asked whether the city is recovering addi- tional utility revenue to help offset the higher cost of the meter reading contract. “We’ve found a lot of meters that weren’t being read at all, some of them for several years,” Slezickey said. “So, yes, we are bringing in more utility money now.” The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority also is helping the city put together data on how much electric- ity the city has purchased and how much has been paid for by custom- ers, he said. While a certain percentage of elec- tricity is lost during the transmission Commission approves meter-reading contract COUNTY 4-H Director Megan Meyer, center, visits with Lions Club members Chris Cameron, left, and Greg Copeland. [KT-FP Staff Photo] [See Contract Page 15] Megan Meyer, Kingfisher County OSU Extension 4-H agent, described the busy agenda of county 4-H mem- bers as the program for the King- fisher Lions Club program Thursday. There are 700 county 4-H mem- bers involved in 15 local clubs, she said. She said 75 county 4-H volunteers contribute to the success of the pro- gram. Four-H members are active year- around, taking part in camps and lead- ership events, livestock and craft events, and branching out into ar- chery more recently. Archery is a rapidly growing ac- tivity with practices for some 50 mem- bers held at the Women’s Building at the fairgrounds. The older building, which has been replaced by the Ex- hibit Building, has been equipped as an archery shooting range. Safety is the foremost focus of the program, Meyer said. She said there are two age groups for 4-H members: Cloverbuds for 5 to 8-year-olds and 4-H for youth 9 to 19. She said Kingfisher Country will be represented at the National 4-H Congress in Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 29- Dec. 3, by Megan Davis of Hennessey, who is secretary of the county 4-H council. Other county officers include : Emilee Evans of Cashion, president; Annie Davis of Lomega, vice-presi- County 4-H members staying busy,agent says [See Agent Page 15]
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In BriefFifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420
16Pages
SaturdayOctober 27, 2013
No. 54 of the125th Year
Halloween ghosts and gob-lins will be out and about inKingfisher starting this week-end.
County 4-H clubs will havetheir annual “Fright Night”Saturday evening at the MACCenter at the fairgrounds inKingfisher with activities forall ages.
Pumpkin decorating will beheld from 5 to 6 p.m., carnivalbooths will be in operationfrom 6 to 7 p.m. and a costumecontest will begin at 7 p.m.
A petting booth with babycalves and sheep will also beavailable.
A concession stand will bein operation throughout theevent.
Chisholm Trail Museum ishosting its annual HalloweenFun Day from 1-3 p.m. Satur-day.
The event includes crafts, ascavenger hunt and costumecontest.
Admission is $4 for adultsand $2 for children ages 6-18.Younger children are admit-ted free.
Trick-or-treat in the down-town area will be held from 4to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Hal-loween, with residential trickor treating from 6 to 8 p.m.
Police Chief Dennis Bakerreminded motorists to be es-pecially watchful for excitedtrick-or-treaters on Thursdaywhen the little spooks are vis-iting the downtown and resi-dential areas to obtain treats.
County 4-H Agent MeganMeyer said the fright night isheld annually to create a safeouting for little hobgoblins.
Halloween funset Saturday
Kingfisher County commis-sioners will take up severalannual agreements at theirweekly meeting at 9:30 a.m.Monday at the courthouse.
The first agenda item callsfor commissioners to considerinvoices from the KingfisherChamber of Commerce for theGreater Oklahoma City Eco-nomic Foundation for thecounty and the KingfisherCounty Industrial Authorityin the amount of$750.20 each.
Commissioners also willconsider a master serviceagreement between the countyand Southwestern Bell Tele-phone, a request from theKingfisher-Blaine CountyDrug Court to removeDeborah McGee as requestingofficer and Pat Pettus as re-ceiving officer and add TerryRice and Dwaine Richey asreceiving officers, schedulecounty holidays for the 2014calendar year, act on a right-of-way requisition servicesagreement to acquire right-of-way on road and bridge project137(076) RB (Rice Bridge) inDistrict 1, and act on a leaseagreement with YellowhouseMachinery-John Deere Creditfor a John Deere grader 770Gfor District 3.
Three county road crossingpermit requests also appear onthe agenda.
County to talkannual pacts
KINGFISHER HIGH School’s photography students continue to garnerawards. Staff members include: Dillon Smith, Lucas Norris (Asst. Chief),Austin Gruber, Dillon Laster, Sean Borelli and Houston Payne. Seated:Lauren Mcadam, Katie Winnicki (Chief), and Kaitlin St. Cyr. Inset are St.Cyr, seated, Payne, left, and Minton, looking over St. Cyr’s winningphotograph. [Photo Courtesy KHS Photography]
Dr. A.J. Johnson, director of theKingfisher High School photographyprogram, has announced that sev-eral photography students have beenawarded state and national recogni-tion of their work.
The state photography winnersselected for a national exhibition in-clude current students Kaitlyn St.Cyr, Caitlyn Minton, Brayden Foley,Houston Payne and Katie Winnicki,plus recent graduates Alyssa Cox,Nicholas Ryan and Savannah Gilley,who were selected for digital exhibi-tion.
St. Cyr, a junior, received firsthonorable mention at the nationalshow on her night photo of the Scis-sortail Bridge over I-40 in OklahomaCity and Minton received secondhonorable mention nationally for aphoto taken in Colorado of “TheGreat American Basin.”
Johnson said there were 795 en-tries submitted from state contests,220 of which were accepted for exhi-
KHS photostudentshonored
[See Photo Page 15]
The city commission will decidewhether to reinstate former fire chiefRandy Poindexter at a special meet-ing at 2 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
According to an agenda postedlate Thursday afternoon, the publichearing may include presentationsfrom City Manager Dave Slezickeyand Poindexter or their representa-tives regarding the termination deci-sion before the city commission votesto enter executive session for addi-tional discussion and deliberations.
Commissioners may move to theCity Hall Annex (the former TuscanyFlowers and Gifts located directlynorth of City Hall) for the closedexecutive session, according to theagenda.
Commissioners will return toopen session to take a formal vote onthe reinstatement request.
Slezickey dismissed PoindexterSept. 25 after six and a half years asfire chief.
Prior to his termination,Poindexter had been placed on paidadministrative leave following a dis-ciplinary hearing Sept. 12 attendedby the fire chief, his attorney,Slezickey and City Attorney JaredHarrison.
Commission’s current roleSome of the 12 citizens who spoke
on Poindexter’s behalf at the Oct. 15
Hearing Tuesday on former chief’s appealCitizen group starts recall petition
A group calling itself “Concerned Citizens for King-fisher” set up a Facebook page Wednesday with a link toa petition calling for the recall of Kingfisher Mayor JackStuteville.
Apparently in response to a phone tip about the peti-tion, an Oklahoma City Fox 25 reporter and cameramanvisited Kingfisher Wednesday afternoon, then set up at aspecial city meeting where Stuteville addressed the re-porter directly before taking up the two unrelated itemson the brief agenda.
The same station has sent crews to Kingfisher a num-ber of times in the last several months, generating prima-rily negative stories about local government officials.
“There’s nothing on this agenda, but you’re here againto put us in a bad light,” Stuteville told the reporter. “Ifyou want to come down and do a story, we’ve got a lot ofnice things to talk about.
“We’re a wonderful town and we’ve got wonderfulpeople.”
Stuteville declined to respond on camera to a ques-tion from the TV reporter about the petition and in-stead began discussing the two scheduled agenda items(see related story).
On its face, the petition appears to have been trig-gered at least in part by the termination of former firechief Randy Poindexter since two of the three itemslisted as alleged grounds for Stuteville’s recall mentionthe termination decision by City Manager DaveSlezickey.
Stuteville was first elected mayor in 2008, when hedefeated former commissioner Mark Mueggenborgafter the death of then-mayor Dick Flood.
He was elected to a second four-year term withoutopposition in 2012 and is prohibited from running fora third consecutive term by the city charter’s term limitprovision.
The city charter provides that an election can be[See Petition Page 15]
Sts. Peter and Paul CatholicChurch youth group will betrick or treating Wednesdaynight to fill the shelves of theKingfisher County Food Bank.
Teens will go door-to-doorin Kingfisher from 6-8 p.m.collecting nonperishable fooditems.
Residents interested in do-nating can leave the items onthe porch with the light turnedon.
“If we don’t make it by yourhouse and you’d like to do-nate, please call me at 368-6937and we’ll schedule a time topick up your donation,”Johanna Adams said.
Youth to collectfood donations
commission meeting expressed out-rage that the mayor and commission-ers did not immediately overruleSlezickey’s decision.
However, both state law and thecurrent city charter leave most person-nel matters under the exclusive controlof the city manager until an appeal isfiled calling for commissioners to re-view the decision in a public hearing.
As opposed to a strong-mayor formof government in which the mayoracts as chief administrator with au-thority over all city functions, King-fisher operates as a commission-citymanager government, according tosection 1.2.10 of its charter.
Under Kingfisher’s charter, themayor is the “presiding officer at allmeetings of the commissioners and
shall have the same voting privilegesas commissioners” (Section 2.2) andis “the representative of the City atall social and public functions” and“shall sign all official documents andconveyances and instruments whichbind the city” (Section 2.2.1).
The charter gives the mayor andcommissioners authority to hire the
[See Hearing Page 15]
Kingfisher city commissionersvoted to approve a one-year contractwith The Grounds Guys of Edmondto read the city’s 4,800 water andelectric meters at a cost of $89,544.
The Grounds Guys have been read-ing meters on a temporary basis afterthe city discovered that its previouscontractor had been estimating meterreadings for months, resulting in manyutility customers receiving large ad-justment bills this summer as the er-rors were uncovered.
City Manager Dave Slezickey saidtThe Grounds Guys contract was morethan twice the cost of the previouscontract of 75 cents per meter permonth (amounting to about $38,000last year).
However, the company is provid-ing a semi-automated process involv-ing an iPad app that allows the read-ers to take a photo of each meter read-ing, with a date, time and locationstamp, to provide greater accuracyand accountability.
“We’re looking for a way to allowthe information generated by theiriPads to interface directly with oursystem,” he said. “If we’re not able todo that, they’ll generate the informa-tion in spreadsheet format that we’lluse to input in our system.”
Commissioner Janet Clark askedwhether the city is recovering addi-tional utility revenue to help offsetthe higher cost of the meter readingcontract.
“We’ve found a lot of meters that
weren’t being read at all, some ofthem for several years,” Slezickeysaid. “So, yes, we are bringing inmore utility money now.”
The Oklahoma Municipal PowerAuthority also is helping the city puttogether data on how much electric-ity the city has purchased and howmuch has been paid for by custom-ers, he said.
While a certain percentage of elec-tricity is lost during the transmission
Commission approves meter-reading contractCOUNTY 4-H Director Megan Meyer, center, visits with Lions Clubmembers Chris Cameron, left, and Greg Copeland. [KT-FP Staff Photo]
[See Contract Page 15]
Megan Meyer, Kingfisher CountyOSU Extension 4-H agent, describedthe busy agenda of county 4-H mem-bers as the program for the King-fisher Lions Club program Thursday.
There are 700 county 4-H mem-bers involved in 15 local clubs, shesaid.
She said 75 county 4-H volunteerscontribute to the success of the pro-gram.
Four-H members are active year-around, taking part in camps and lead-ership events, livestock and craftevents, and branching out into ar-chery more recently.
Archery is a rapidly growing ac-tivity with practices for some 50 mem-bers held at the Women’s Building at
the fairgrounds. The older building,which has been replaced by the Ex-hibit Building, has been equipped asan archery shooting range.
Safety is the foremost focus of theprogram, Meyer said.
She said there are two age groupsfor 4-H members: Cloverbuds for 5 to8-year-olds and 4-H for youth 9 to 19.
She said Kingfisher Country willbe represented at the National 4-HCongress in Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 29-Dec. 3, by Megan Davis of Hennessey,who is secretary of the county 4-Hcouncil.
Other county officers include :Emilee Evans of Cashion, president;Annie Davis of Lomega, vice-presi-
County 4-H membersstaying busy, agent says
[See Agent Page 15]
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Four-H members sharp-ened their leadership skills,learned new project ideals andparticipated in a communityservice project over the fallbreak.
One hundred thirty-five 4-H members from the NW Dis-trict counties participated inthe NW District 4-H confer-ence held Oct. 16-17, at theSpringhill Suites in Enid.
Four-H is a youth organi-zation for youths 9-19 years ofage.
“The Northwest District 4-H Leadership conference is formembers 13-18 years old. Thegoal of the leadership confer-ence is to give them tools the4-H members can take back toand teach to members in theircommunities and counties,”said Jim Rhodes, NW District4-H youth development pro-gram specialist.
The conference includedattending workshops taughtby the NW District 4-H offic-ers on conducting 4-H project
clubs in their local and county4-H clubs. The workshopswere taught by the 2012-13NW District 4-H officers, state4-H ambassadors and state 4-H council members that rep-resent NW Oklahoma 4-H.
The 4-H youth assisted theKids Against Hunger organi-zation under the direction ofMonty Stewart, and packageda total of 17,792 meals for theKids Against Hunger.
Four-H members werechallenged by Missy Quintero,former state 4-H president andstate 4-H Hall of Fame win-ner, to set goals for the futureand as you strive for thosegoals to remember who youare. She stated it is importantto have a focus on who youare and remain true to yourtrue character.
The youth also learnedmany new games that can beused in club and county ac-tivities in the 4-H club setting.
The conference concludedwith a humorist-hypnotist,
Kingfisher County 4-H membersattend leadership conference
Gary Owen of Edmond.Officers for 2013-14 were
elected. They include: KelseyConaway of Major County,president; Carter Postier ofGarfield County, vice presi-dent; Haleigh Bockelman ofHarper County, secretary;Blair Peoples of DeweyCounty, reporter, and Madi-son Deeds of Garfield County,song leader.
Serving as the state 4-Hcouncil NW District represen-tatives will be James Olmsteadof Garfield County and KarlieWade of Noble County.
Three of the 2013-14 state4-H officers are from the NWDistrict. They are RickiSchroeder of Garfield County,state 4-H president; CodyPeterson of Noble County,state 4-H secretary, and Mor-gan Roberts of Dewey County,state 4-H reporter.
For more information, conjoining 4-H, contact MeganMeyer at the KingfisherCounty OSU Extension office.
KINGFISHER COUNTY 4-H members attending the 2013 NW District Leadershipconference on Oct. 16-17 included: from left, Megan Davis and Mitchell Davis ofHennessey; Wyatt Krittenbrink of Okarche; Annie Davis of Lomega; Journee Humphriesof Kingfisher, and Sara Bomhoff and Bailey Baustert, both of Okarche. Not pictured isCali Glazier of Lomega. [Photo Provided]
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Three Kingfisher HighSchool seniors were honoredby the Kingfisher Rotary ClubTuesday.
Guests at the club’s weeklyluncheon meeting were se-niors Sampson Woods, JasonBooth and Devan Bettencourt.
Woods is the son of RobertWoods Sr. and VirginiaWoods. His activities includefootball and vice president ofthe Native American Club.Woods plans to attendSWOSU.
Booth is the son of O.J. andKristy Donovan. He is a mem-
ber of the band and a pastwinner of the KHS outstand-ing musician award. Boothplans to attend San Diego Stateor Berklee College of Music.
Bettencourt is the son ofCharly Stewart. He is the drummajor of the Pride of King-fisher band, president of theNative American Club, vicepresident of the Spanish Cluband a member of the soccerteam. He attends FreedomChurch and plans to attendSWOSU and major in musiceducation.
Kingfisher Rotary Clubhonors three seniors
KINGFISHER ROTARY Club welcomed Kingfisher HighSchool seniors, from left, Sampson Woods, Jason Boothand Devan Bettencourt to the club’s weekly luncheon.[TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
CALI GLAZIER of Lomega helped package rice meals forthe Kids Against Hunger organization. The 4-H partici-pants packaged 17,792 meals in approximately two hours.[Photo Provided]
ROTARY SPEAKER – Dr. Topher Barnett, center, wasguest speaker at Rotary on Tuesday. Barnett recentlybecame a partner at Kingfisher Dentistry and Braces.Previously, he was the assistant director of the dentalclinic at the University of Oklahoma Children’s Physi-cians Hospital. He spoke to the group about giving back
Lomega schedule toldLomega schools’ officials
have announced the schedulefor the week of Oct. 28 as fol-lows:
Monday – Red RibbonWeek, speaker at 11 a.m.; highschool pajama day; elemen-tary, don’t horse around withdrugs, dress like a cowboy orcowgirl; high school and jun-ior high boys basketball scrim-mage vs. Aline-Cleo, (H), 4:30p.m.; high school girls basket-ball scrimmage vs.Mooreland, (H).
Tuesday – Elementary,show your school spirit, wearRaider gear; high school, dresslike your friend day; fourth,fifth and sixth grade to Phil-harmonic; National FFA con-vention, Tuesday through Fri-day; Toastmasters, second andthird hours; high school bon-fire, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday – Elementary,drugs will turn you inside out,wear clothes inside out; highschool, mismatch day.
Thursday – Elementary,Hocus Pocus drugs are notour focus, Halloween shirt, nocostumes; high school, cos-tume day; trick or treat atLoyal, 6-8 p.m.
Friday – High school bas-ketball vs. Arapaho, (T), 6:30p.m.; high school, red andwhite and blue day.
to your community and fel-low man through generousdeeds. He was accompaniedat the meeting by King-fisher Dentistry and BracesOffice Manager, KellyBlehm, left. Introducingthem at the meeting wasRotarian Cindy Gruntmeir.[TIMES-FREE PRESS StaffPhoto]
Kingfisher schedule toldKingfisher Public Schools’
officials have announced theschedule for the week of Oct.28 as follows:
Wednesday – High schoolNational FFA convention,Wednesday through Friday.
Friday – Heritage Schoolnine weeks reading awards;middle school winter sportsand organization pictures andretakes, 8 a.m.-noon; highschool football vs. Newcastle,(T), 7p.m.
Saturday – High schoolcross country state at Edmond;high school band, smallschool, all-state; high schoolvocal, first round of all-stateauditions at Enid High School,6 a.m.-5 p.m.; high schoolSTUCO state convention atBixby, 6 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday – Four-H Share theFun, Heritage auditorium, 2p.m.
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Alan Greenspan’sshock revelationBy Bill Bonner, Chairman,Bonner & Partners
Delray Beach, FloridaThursday, 24 Oct. 2013We really can’t forecast all
that well. We pretend that we canbut we can’t. And markets doreally weird things sometimesbecause they react to the waypeople behave, and sometimespeople are a little screwy.
– Alan Greenspan, speak-ing this week on “The DailyShow”
“Jobs Report Leaves Fed inDoubt,” was a big headlineyesterday morning.
Later in the day came this:“Dow down 54 on jobs con-
cern.”What is the Fed in doubt
about? To taper, or not to taper,that is the question.
And why should a jobs re-port make any difference?
Oh, dear reader, wherehave you been? Don’t youknow everyone now sits onthe edge of his seat wonder-ing when and how the Fedwill back off from its massiveQE program? And don’t youknow the future of civiliza-tion hangs in the balance?
On that point, we have aposition… a thought… a reac-tion. Civilization hangs in thebalance, but not in the wayyou think.
Asking for TroubleWe have been trying to in-
troduce a new way of lookingat civilization. In short, we’vetried to make it more civilized.
What is the difference be-tween a civilized communityand a barbaric one? We haveintroduced a simple test. Thecivilized community reliesmostly on cooperation andconsent. The uncivilized com-munity depends heavily onforce and violence.
A French historian first in-troduced the word “civiliza-tion” less than 300 years ago.Since then there has beenmuch argument about what itmeans. We enter the fray gin-gerly, but sure of ourselves. Itonly makes sense on ourterms. A civilized communityis peaceful; a barbaric one isnot.
“Okay, Bill,” you may besaying to yourself. “I’ll giveyou that one… I guess. Butwhat the hell difference doesit make? What has it got to dowith the jobs report?”
Good questions. Glad youasked.
We know from bitter expe-rience that trying to forceeconomies to do what youwant is a thankless task. Mar-kets are fundamentally basedon free exchange, cooperation,trust and trade. Force them inone direction or another andyou are just asking for trouble.
As Alan Greenspan de-scribed this week, in an inter-view with John Stewart on“The Daily Show,” people area little “screwy” from time totime. Which means they don’tnecessarily go along with yourcentral planning, no matterhow good you think it is.
But still economists insistthat, if they are allowed tomonkey around with it, theycan make an economy better.This is occasionally true. Saidoccasion is usually when theyhave already messed it up. Bywithdrawing some of theirplanning and programs, theymay allow it to recover.
Otherwise, there is no ex-ample in history where forcehas been successfully appliedto economics.
Compounding ErrorsBut that doesn’t stop the
PhDs from trying. The jobsreport showed about 60,000jobs missing – fewer jobs thaneconomists had projected.
Now, the erring economistswill most likely compoundtheir error by continuing totry to force the economy to dotheir bidding – force up therate of consumer price in-creases and force down thenumber of Americans out ofwork.
If they really wanted to in-crease employment, thatwould be easy enough. Theywould encourage the feds towithdraw some of the lawsthat bully employers (healthinsurance… EEOC threats…overtime, etc.)… or some ofthe schemes that make it easyfor potential employees to re-main unemployed (disabil-ity… unemployment ben-efits… food stamps). As far aswe know, those things are noton the table.
What is on the table is more
You’re a genius. I’m a genius. We’re all geniuses.That’s the natural assumption one could make based on the
comment of the late Carl Sagan’s (Pulitzer prize winningauthor and genius behind the Cosmos television series) com-mented that each human mind has the information stored in itequal to 20 million books.
He suggested that one envision Madison Square Garden’s20,000 seats with books placed on each seat. The stacks wouldgo 1,000 books high, higher than the ceiling.
Genius types just use their information store better than restof us, perhaps.
And how does that information store square with the seem-ingly correct statement, “we’re all ignorant – just in differentways.”?
Could it be that Sagan, smart as he was, could have beenwrong about some of his postulates?
For instance, he had the idea that there was other intelligentlife in the universe and that the whole thing was not created justfor human beings on Earth.
Other astrophysicists say that the universe as we humanscan know about it today – with its strict set of operating rules– appears designed to support life on Earth.
In fact, they say that any slight change in the universe withits complex system of planets and their orbits could make Earthuninhabitable.
Sagan’s book, Cosmos, supports the search for intelligentextraterrestrial life because he believed extraterrestrials couldspur an enormous change on Earth.
Sagan, as any reasonable person, was concerned about theavailability of nuclear weapons.
One can’t help wondering what he would have thoughtabout Iran’s race to nuclear capability, something that doesn’tseem to concern the current U.S. White House occupant.
Quite possibly David, who became king of the Hebrewpeople had it right intuitively when he said in Psalms 19:1 “Theheavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shewethhis handywork.”
Or, as a man after God’s own heart, perhaps David had aspecial communion with the architect of all.
David’s book of reference, the Bible, after all, says in Gen-esis, “In the beginning God created heaven and the Earth.”
A book we like to read, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be AnAtheist, (the theme of the book is that it takes a lot more faith inunproven atheistic beliefs than to believe Christianity and itsteachings) “by Christian writers and teachers Norman Geislerand Frank Turek cites a classic comment by Robert Jastrow inhis book “God and the Astronomers:”
“For the scientist, who has lived by his faith in the power ofreason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled themountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highestpeak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by aband of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
NPR’s harebrained reportingSpeaking of harebrained idiots, which pretty much encom-
passes the entire National Public Radio staff, which spouts theleft-wing propaganda with apparently straight faces, includ-ing the one about Republicans being responsible for theObamacare opening debacle (because they wouldn’t appropri-ate enough money to do it right), NPR was spouting nonsensefrom some global warming aficionados last week about theneed to salt the atmosphere with material to reflect sunlight sothat the Earth will cool down.
Despite the fact that there are now enough data to thor-oughly debunk the global warming theories, this crowd con-tinues to claim there is a crisis in the making and they’ve got tofix it.
It sounds like a sure recipe for a worldwide disaster, sort oflike Obamacare on a global scale.
Wouldn’t you just love to have a bunch of fuzzy-headedfreaks disturbing the world’s weather?
The universe now operates perfectly for life on Earth.If the meddlers brought about a new ice age, how would
they counteract it – with some new brain-damaged scheme forglobal warming?
Scientists of this scope are a threat to themselves and allliving creatures on Earth.
Joseph Fone of New Zealand has written a book, followingsome 30 years of study and research, “Climate Change, Naturalof Manmade, in which he scientifically delves into false alarm-ism of the Earth is Burning crowd.
Jay Lehr, Ph.D., senior fellow and science director of theHeartland Institute in Chicago, says Fone does a superb job ofdebunking the myth that scientists have reached a consensusthat humans are creating a global warming crisis.
To the extent some scientists claim a consensus exists, theyare merely parroting a predetermined agenda. Memorably,Fone quotes MIT atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen say-ing, “A consensus was reached before the research had evenbegun.”
You, me: All geniuses
By John HaywardRedstate.com
Money gets a bad rap fromsome people, because it’s sup-posed to be the instrument ofgreed. Wanting more moneyis said to be crass. Indeed, inour modern political culture,wanting to keep your ownmoney is treated as “greed.”The noble and virtuous de-mands of the collective, as in-terpreted by a priesthood ofpoliticians, completely trumpsindividual self-interest.
But it’s easy to be greedywithout demanding money.The Obamacare debate pro-vides a great example of this.We are incessantly told thatthe needs of the people Presi-dent Obama believes will ben-efit from his health-carescheme outweigh the needsof everyone else. The relativesize of these two groupsdoesn’t change argument,even when Obama tacitly ad-mits – as he did during hisspeech yesterday – that only15 percent or less of the popu-lace stands to benefit from theprogram. Higher premiums,exploding out-of-pocket costs,lost coverage, and enormouslevels of inconvenience vis-ited upon the rest of us are ofabsolutely zero concern to thePresident. He didn’t evenmention those people in hisspeech. He never does. He hasnothing to say to them, andevidently no one in the main-stream media intends to asktough questions on their be-half.
The President’s politicalteam is having a very hardtime finding any happyObamacare purchasers – noneof his human props atyesterday’s Rose Garden
event had actually bought apolicy. ºThis seems like a sig-nificant data point, over threeweeks into the launch of amulti-trillion-dollar programwith a $500 million websitewhose use is mandated upona formerly free population bylaw, with the IRS standing byto enforce stiff fines againstthe disobedient.
But let us stipulate thatsome happy customers willeventually come forward anddeclare themselves happywith the cost, deductible, ben-efits, and restrictions of thepolicies they have purchased.ºWhy is their satisfaction sup-posed to completely outweighthe higher prices and poor ser-vice encountered by millionsof others? Are they not greedyfor insisting on benefits forthemselves, without concernfor the price paid by others?They’re pursuing their ownnaked self-interest in a waythat damages the lives of otherpeople, and they’re worse thanmost of the people liberal cul-ture routinely characterizes asgreedy or selfish, because theyare using huge amounts ofcompulsive force to get whatthey want. Nobody on thefuzzy end of this lollipop isallowed to say “no.”
Last Sunday, blogger MattWalsh solicited testimonialsfrom those who feel short-changed by Obamacare. Hereports receiving hundreds ofemails within 24 hours. (Thosewho got a raw deal fromObamacare certainly seem tobe much easier to find thanordinary Americans who en-dorse it!) Walsh summarizedhis review of the responses asfollows:
This is about people. Peoplewith kids, and bills and health
problems. This is about peoplewho can no longer afford theirhealth coverage, their mort-gages, their lifesaving medi-cation. This is about doctorsand nurses leaving medicinebehind, driven away by de-structive bureaucratic inter-ference. This is about momsand dads losing their jobs sothat their employers can com-pensate for the financial bur-den of Obamacare. This isabout people without insur-ance because of Obamacare,now being fined for not hav-ing insurance because ofObamacare. This is about busi-ness owners driven to the edgeof bankruptcy. This is real. Weheard a lot of fantasies aboutwhat Obamacare was “sup-posed” to accomplish, now it’stime to talk about what it’sactually doing.
So when they say you are“heartless” for opposingObamacare, show them whyit’s heartless to support it.
Walsh has published doz-ens of the responses he re-ceived, with plans to postmore as he finds time to readthem all. Some of them talkabout disruptions in theirwork and personal livescaused by Obamacare’s end-less maze of mandates, whileothers lay out hard numbersabout the higher premiumsand out-of-pocket costs await-ing them because of the “Af-fordable Care Act.” A few ex-amples from the latter group:
Jess, Oklahoma:We are losing our current
health insurance at the end ofthis year. My husband’s em-ployer is getting rid of it dueto Obamacare. Our insurancecurrently covers my husband,myself, and our two daugh-
Obamacare : It’s about government enforced greed
(See Hayward, Page 5)
By Ted BuswellHaving spent most of the
day trying to think of some-thing worthy of your time andinterest in the reading, it’s beenmore than a little frustrating.
The world keeps on turn-ing and there’s plenty for us tobe seriously concerned about,but it gets to be like nothingnew to excite the senses. Ourspace is fraught with perilfrom Main Street to nationaland international frontiers.But it gets almost monotonousin that change and beneficialresolution of the frightful mat-ters escapes us day to day.
Politics seems central tomost of our concerns from CityHall to the White House andthe legislative branches of gov-ernment from top to bottom.Of course lacking solutions tothe problems negates not ouropinions and complaintsabout any of the matters un-der discussion, does it?
A local topic of discussioncenters on the recent dismissalof the popular fire chief andinterest in his immediate rein-statement. Along with peti-tions for such action there arealso some suggestions for re-call or replacement of otherpersons involved.
Remember when a formerpresident was impeached forinappropriate actions in of-fice? But Bill convinced pow-ers that be that his treatmentof one Monica didn’t rise to alevel worthy of such drasticaction against such high of-fice as his. Memory of all thedetails escapes me at the mo-ment. And perhaps the seri-ousness of other matters fac-ing Americans dwarfs suchconcerns to a level of insig-nificance on a world scale.There have been suggestionsthat impeachment might be afitting treatment for cure ofshortcomings of leadership on
the part of the current occu-pant of our nation’s highestofficeholder today. Is incom-petence sufficient cause forsuch drastic actions?
The economy continues tobe of great concern and to dateno realistic effective solutionsare progressing. Deflation ofour currency is threatening uswith depression and collapseof our position as the worldeconomic leader. We are adebtor nation that could ex-perience utter destruction athome and abroad. With thenational debt now measuredin multi-trillions of dollars andgrowing we could soon bebeyond any hope of fiscal sur-vival. Do the math and figureout your personal individualshare of such debt and decideif and how you can pay offyour meager share. Howmuch money do you have inyour checking and saving ac-counts today? (Oh, what theheck…isn’t it a little less than$50,000.00 apiece?) Of course,each of your children and mineowe the same amount as doeach of your parents, if stillalive. Heck it’s only money,isn’t it?
I remember when FrankRoosevelt shrugged off thenational debt from his overextension of spending as in-significant because it was justmoney we owed ourselves.
If such was ever rational, itisn’t today because we oweother governments around theworld like China and everyother one we do business with.And rest assured if the nationsurvives our heirs not yet bornwill still be struggling to payoff the penalties created byour government’s ignoring thesimplest economic rules of fis-cal survival… Expendituresshould be limited to revenueincome.
We all know what happens
to families that spend morethan they earn, don’t we? Infact governments cannot es-cape the same basic principlesin the management of theiraffairs, domestic or foreign.
Education stays in the newsfairly constantly these days,too. The media reports of vio-lence have gotten a lot of at-tention in recent times. Thisweek a 14-year-old studentreportedly beat his teacher todeath. She, only 10 years hissenior – 24. Public educationhas changed in many ways inthe last 60-some years. And ithas been, indeed, a mixed bag.Some such changes have beenvery positive in their socialimpact, but others have beendismally counterproductiveand destructive. Havingworked as a teacher and ad-ministrator for 30-some years,I feel qualified and justified insome criticism of the institu-tion past and present. Just asin the growing problems ofthe economy, many of thegrowing problems in publiceducation are simple in na-ture. Introduction of newways and exploration of newfrontiers does not justify theabandonment of old ways andthe quality of life of time pastin and of itself. Preservationof what is good of our currentexistence should be kept anddoes not prevent opening newdoors for accomplishment.And we should remain everaware that history ignored isoften and naturally so re-peated.
Perhaps this old head needsto be seeking new doors toopen because it seems like alot of familiar ones are closingin the dark these days. Whatdo you think we should beworking on?
Should we be doing some-thing?
Do shut downs call for shut ups?
(See Bonner, Page 5)
Diary of aROGUE ECONOMIST
THE OBAMACARE LAUNCH
