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Volume 112 No. 35 75 Cents Thursday December 3, 2009 P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron County Phone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail [email protected] Visit The Boise City News online at it’s Website at boisecitynews.org Or it’s new Weblog at boisecitynews2.wordpress.com BOISE CITY WEATHER Hi Lo Prec Tues. Nov. 24 48 20 Wed. Nov. 25 49 20 Thur. Nov. 26 65 23 Fri. Nov. 27 72 26 Sat. Nov. 28 62 25 Sun. Nov. 29 40 21 Mon.Nov.30 53 19 MARKETS Wheat $ 4.76 bush. Milo $3.18 bush. Corn $3.78 bush. (spot prices subject to change) SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BORN ON DEC. 3 TODAY IN HISTORY DEC. 3 DEATHS-PG. 3 We give a tip of the hat to: We give a dunce cap to: The old Shamrock Station on East Main, across from Black Mesa Shell disappeared last Friday. The area is reportedly being cleared for the construction of a new Dollar General store. Completion is expected to be in March. CHANGE .... INEVITABLE CHANGE Ports to Plains bypass... The layout of the Ports-to-Plains bypass is now becom- ing more defined. The Highway designation, will direct traffic from Loredo, Texas to Denver and eventually Canada. The by-pass now visible will pass just east of Boise City and will rejoin U.S. Highway 287 just north of Gayler’s BBQ. Local to Per- form in Amarillo’s Nutcracker Photos courtsey of Boise City P.D. and Cimarron County Sheriff’s Office ELLI HANVEY Largest Cast Ever, in- cluding local dancer, takes the stage at the Amarillo Civic Center AMARILLO ~ Experience the magic of Lone Star Ballet’s The Nutcracker, wrapping the traditional story in bright new trappings – just in time for the holidays. Continue family traditions and enjoy the Christmas spirit in a visual wonderland. Let the magic of The Nutcracker take you away beginning Friday, Dec 11, with five performances through Dec. 13 at the Amarillo Civic Center. The largest cast ever – with more than 150 per- formers – will entice and enter- tain audiences of all ages in the 38 th year of this magnificent pro- duction. Included in the cast is Elli Hanvey of Keyes, OK, in the roles of soldier and Chinese Parasol girl. In addition to the largest cast ever, The Nutcracker will fea- ture Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Carlos Miguel Guerra of Miami City Ballet in the lead roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Sugar Plum Cavalier. This will be their third year per- forming with Lone Star Ballet at their request. Ms. Kronenberg was recently fea- tured on the cover of Dance Magazine in the November is- sue. Proudly sponsoring Lone Star Ballet’s The Nutcracker are the Lone Star Ballet Guild, Amarillo National Bank, Clara’s Guard- ians, Dr. Terry Gibbs, Maxor Pharmacies, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Oeschger, Duncan and Boyd Jewelers, Texas Com- mission on the Arts, KVII ProNews 7, McDonalds, and United Supermarkets; in asso- ciation with the Amarillo Sym- phony Orchestra, Ambassador Hotel, and the Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation. Lone Star Ballet invites you to get away for the holidays and escape to The Nutcracker! Tickets for this extraordinary journey can be purchased through Panhandle Tickets at 378-3096 or at www .panhandletickets.com. Group rates are available for groups of ten or more. Don’t miss this holiday tradi- tion and experience the magic of The Nutcracker. By C.F. David from Arkan- sas Business reports According to Little Rock, Arkansas news reports, former attorney Gene Cauley, also the former absentee owner of The Boise City News was given a seven year sentence on Nov. 23. He also received a separate 48 month sentence that will run concurrently. He will also have three years of supervised re- lease after prison. No fine was assessed, but the judge gave Cauley one year to come up with the balance of the $9.3 million. Cauley purchased The Boise City News from Jim and Deb Rosebery in 2002 and sold it in 2006, to C.F. and Linda David, for whom he carries the note. Cauley pled guilty to the theft of $9.3 million from an escrow account of a legal settlement he Former Absentee Owner Re- ceives Sentences of 7 Years; 48 months had made for clients. He pled to one count each of wire fraud and criminal contempt for failing to safely hold the settlement money. The total settlement was for $65.8 million. Cauley told the court that he had several businesses, (sign companies, car washes), and that he had begun to have cash- flow problems. He also admit- ted that pride had kept him from making decisions about lay-offs, etc. Cauley was ordered to make restitution but has only been able to raise $500,000. The prison time and restitu- tion aren’t Cauley’s only prob- lems. He has also been hit with lawsuits of more than $40 mil- lion due to creditors and lost in- come, and a liability lawsuit over the death of an employee at one of his sign companies. OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Jim Wilson has filed legislation to amend the Okla- homa Open Records Act to al- low audio or video recordings of the Department of Public Safety be made public. Wilson believes, following controversial incidents in the state involving the sugges- tion of officers abusing their power, that the media should have access to the videos. “Our public safety officers are public servants who work at the will of the public, so why shouldn’t the public have access to video of them doing their jobs? It seems to me that releasing these digital records will help dis- pel the suspicion that they have something to hide. Their job is to serve, protect and uphold the law,” said Wilson, D-Tahlequah. “Unfortunately, we’ve had inci- dents where officers have abused their power while on duty. There have also been in- stances where the media has exaggerated or provided inaccu- rate information about a case because they didn’t have the video and, therefore, didn’t have all the facts.” Wilson Files Dash Cam Open Records Bill Currently, certain items are not included under the defini- tion of “record” under the Open Records Act including among others computer soft- ware, nongovernment personal effects, personal financial infor- mation, credit reports, any digi- tal audio/video recordings of toll collections and audio or video recordings of the Department of Public Safety. Senate Bill 1252 would allow DPS audio and video recordings to be made public. Wilson pointed to the May 24 altercation between Okla- homa Highway Patrolman Daniel Martin and Paramedic Maurice White as one example of why the media and public should have access to officers’ dash cam videos. This was fol- lowed by an investigation of an- other incident involving the same officer some months later for which the video was not readily released. “Transparency in govern- ment offers the public perfor- mance measures and account- ability which can be monitored and reported by the media” said Wilson. Candidates for the Board of Education in four Cimarron County school districts file Dec- larations of Candidacy begin- ning at 8 a.m. Monday, Decem- ber 7. V icki T urner , Secretary of the Cimarron County Election Board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Decem- ber 9. The Board of Education po- sitions at stake will be filled at the Annual School Election scheduled February 9, 2009. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the total votes cast in this election, the two candi- dates receiving the highest num- School Board Candidates Need to Register by Dec. 9 ber of votes will meet in an elec- tion on Tuesday, April 6, 2009. Offices for which Declara- tions of Candidacy will be ac- cepted at the County Election Board office include the follow- ing: Keyes School District—Of- fice No. 5. Felt School District——Of- fice No. 5 Boise City School District— Office No. 5 Plainview School District— —Office No. 1 Filing for Annual School Elec- tion opens 8:00 A.M. December 7, 2009 Closes 5:00 A.M. De- cember 9, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY – Okla- homans would be guaranteed to receive their tax refund within 30 days under legislation proposed by an Oklahoma City lawmaker. State Rep. Mike Reynolds said the bill is necessary to pre- vent tax refunds from being with- held in a misguided attempt to deal with the state’s budget short- fall. Reynolds said his concern stems from a past example of the governor’s approach to increas- ing revenue. Previously the governor was able to get a law passed that caused considerable hardship to retail businesses across Oklahoma. The legislation required that sales tax reports be filed twice a month, forcing virtually every retail business across the state to change their accounting system and remit tax that in many cases had not even been collected yet. Reynolds said if the gover- nor would hurt businesses in an attempt to move a few million dollars from one fiscal year to the next, it’s likely he would be willing to do the same to tax- payers to move hundreds of millions. “Under current law, it is legal for the governor to or- der the Tax Commission to de- lay the issuance of tax refunds until June 30,” said Reynolds, R- Oklahoma City. “We’ve seen similar schemes used in other states, such as California, when politicians’ appetite for spend- ing exceeds the available rev- enue. By withholding refunds, those states have been able to artificially delay necessary bud- get cuts for several months al- though they make the situation worse in the long run by taking that action. My legislation will prevent the use of this unethi- cal accounting gimmick. Okla- Legislation to Guarantee that Oklahomans Receive Tax Refunds homans who play by the rules should not be deprived of their tax refunds.” Under Reynolds’ legislation, the Oklahoma Tax Commission would be required to provide tax refunds within 30 days of receiv- ing a taxpayer’s return. “In this day of online filing, there’s no reason for it to take longer than 30 days to return excess payments to working families,” Reynolds said. “My bill will provide families with cer- tainty and prevent the kind of fi- nancial mismanagement that has wreaked havoc in other states.” Santa Establishes Mail Delivery With the cooperation of The Boise City News, Santa has established a mailbox that will get Cimarron County Children’s letters to the North Pole on time. Any letters mailed to Santa will pass through his box here at The Boise City News and we will forward them. Also, each letter will be printed in The Boise City News ahead of Christmas, and since Santa is a longtime subscriber, he will have twice as good a chance to see what Cimarron County Children want on Christmas morning. “A conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice.” - Norbert Wiener MARK STALDER-58 1755 Gilbert Stuart US, por- trait painter (painted Wash- ington) 1795 Sir Rowland Hill intro- duced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840) 1838 Cleveland Abbe US, meteorologist (Father of the Weather Bureau) 1923 Tom Fears NFL end, coach (Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints) 1937 Bobby Allison auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500) 1943Valerie Perrine Galveston TX, actress (Slaughterhouse 5, Super- man) 1948 Ozzy Osbourne En- gland, rock vocalist (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon) 1949 Heather Menzies Toronto Ontario, actress (Jessica-Logan’s Run) 1965 Katarina Witt Staaken German Democratic Repub- lic, figure skater (Olympics- gold-1984, 88) 1968 Brendan Fraser India- napolis IN, actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks) 1621 Galileo perfects the telescope 1818 Illinois admitted as 21st US state 1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th President of US, John C Calhoun Vice-Presi- dent 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio, 1st truly coeduca- tional college opens 1947 Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” premieres in New York NY 1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1950 Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7) 1961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55- yard field goal 1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” - Thomas Jefferson Duane Ferguson, Delane Schwindt, Tri-County Electric and the others who put up the Christmas lights Those who have been or are al- tering climate data ABOVE, SOUTH 287 BY THE OVERPASS, BELOW, NORTH 287
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Volume 112 No. 35 75 Cents Thursday December 3, 2009P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail [email protected]
Visit The Boise City News online at it’s Website at boisecitynews.orgOr it’s new Weblog at boisecitynews2.wordpress.com
BOISE CITY WEATHER Hi Lo Prec
Tues. Nov. 24 48 20Wed. Nov. 25 49 20Thur. Nov. 26 65 23Fri. Nov. 27 72 26Sat. Nov. 28 62 25Sun. Nov. 29 40 21Mon.Nov.30 53 19MARKETSWheat $ 4.76 bush.Milo $3.18 bush.Corn $3.78 bush. (spot prices subject to change)
SOMETHING TOTHINK ABOUT
BORN ON DEC. 3
TODAY IN HISTORYDEC. 3
DEATHS-PG. 3
We give a tip of the hat to:
We give a dunce cap to:
The old Shamrock Station on East Main, across fromBlack Mesa Shell disappeared last Friday. The area isreportedly being cleared for the construction of a newDollar General store. Completion is expected to be inMarch.
CHANGE....INEVITABLE CHANGE
Ports to Plains bypass...The layout of the Ports-to-Plains bypass is now becom-ing more defined. The Highway designation, will directtraffic from Loredo, Texas to Denver and eventuallyCanada. The by-pass now visible will pass just east ofBoise City and will rejoin U.S. Highway 287 just north ofGayler’s BBQ.
Local to Per-form inAmarillo’sNutcracker
Photos courtsey of Boise City P.D. and Cimarron County Sheriff’s Office
ELLI HANVEYLargest Cast Ever, in-
cluding local dancer, takesthe stage at the AmarilloCivic Center
AMARILLO ~ Experiencethe magic of Lone Star Ballet’sThe Nutcracker, wrapping thetraditional story in bright newtrappings – just in time for theholidays.
Continue family traditions andenjoy the Christmas spirit in avisual wonderland. Let themagic of The Nutcracker takeyou away beginning Friday, Dec11, with five performancesthrough Dec. 13 at the AmarilloCivic Center. The largest castever – with more than 150 per-formers – will entice and enter-tain audiences of all ages in the38th year of this magnificent pro-duction. Included in the cast isElli Hanvey of Keyes, OK, inthe roles of soldier and ChineseParasol girl.
In addition to the largest castever, The Nutcracker will fea-ture Jennifer CarlynnKronenberg and Carlos MiguelGuerra of Miami City Ballet inthe lead roles of the Sugar PlumFairy and Sugar Plum Cavalier.This will be their third year per-forming with Lone Star Balletat their request. Ms.Kronenberg was recently fea-tured on the cover of DanceMagazine in the November is-sue.
Proudly sponsoring Lone StarBallet’s The Nutcracker are theLone Star Ballet Guild, AmarilloNational Bank, Clara’s Guard-ians, Dr. Terry Gibbs, MaxorPharmacies, Mr. and Mrs.Lawrence Oeschger, Duncanand Boyd Jewelers, Texas Com-mission on the Arts, KVIIProNews 7, McDonalds, andUnited Supermarkets; in asso-ciation with the Amarillo Sym-phony Orchestra, AmbassadorHotel, and the Don and SybilHarrington Foundation.
Lone Star Ballet invites youto get away for the holidays andescape to The Nutcracker!Tickets for this extraordinaryjourney can be purchasedthrough Panhandle Tickets at378-3096 or atwww.panhandletickets.com.Group rates are available forgroups of ten or more.
Don’t miss this holiday tradi-tion and experience the magicof The Nutcracker.
By C.F. David from Arkan-sas Business reports
According to Little Rock,Arkansas news reports, formerattorney Gene Cauley, also theformer absentee owner of TheBoise City News was given aseven year sentence on Nov.23. He also received a separate48 month sentence that will runconcurrently. He will also havethree years of supervised re-lease after prison. No fine wasassessed, but the judge gaveCauley one year to come upwith the balance of the $9.3million.
Cauley purchased The BoiseCity News from Jim and DebRosebery in 2002 and sold it in2006, to C.F. and Linda David,for whom he carries the note.
Cauley pled guilty to the theftof $9.3 million from an escrowaccount of a legal settlement he
Former Absentee Owner Re-ceives Sentences of 7 Years;48 months
had made for clients. He pled toone count each of wire fraud andcriminal contempt for failing tosafely hold the settlementmoney. The total settlement wasfor $65.8 million.
Cauley told the court that hehad several businesses, (signcompanies, car washes), andthat he had begun to have cash-flow problems. He also admit-ted that pride had kept him frommaking decisions about lay-offs,etc.
Cauley was ordered to makerestitution but has only been ableto raise $500,000.
The prison time and restitu-tion aren’t Cauley’s only prob-lems. He has also been hit withlawsuits of more than $40 mil-lion due to creditors and lost in-come, and a liability lawsuit overthe death of an employee at oneof his sign companies.
OKLAHOMA CITY –State Sen. Jim Wilson has filedlegislation to amend the Okla-homa Open Records Act to al-low audio or video recordings ofthe Department of Public Safetybe made public. Wilson believes,following controversial incidentsin the state involving the sugges-tion of officers abusing theirpower, that the media should haveaccess to the videos.
“Our public safety officersare public servants who work atthe will of the public, so whyshouldn’t the public have accessto video of them doing their jobs? It seems to me that releasingthese digital records will help dis-pel the suspicion that they havesomething to hide. Their job is toserve, protect and uphold thelaw,” said Wilson, D-Tahlequah. “Unfortunately, we’ve had inci-dents where officers haveabused their power while onduty. There have also been in-stances where the media hasexaggerated or provided inaccu-rate information about a casebecause they didn’t have thevideo and, therefore, didn’t haveall the facts.”
Wilson Files Dash Cam OpenRecords Bill
Currently, certain items arenot included under the defini-tion of “record” under theOpen Records Act includingamong others computer soft-ware, nongovernment personaleffects, personal financial infor-mation, credit reports, any digi-tal audio/video recordings of tollcollections and audio or videorecordings of the Departmentof Public Safety. Senate Bill1252 would allow DPS audioand video recordings to bemade public.
Wilson pointed to the May24 altercation between Okla-homa Highway PatrolmanDaniel Martin and ParamedicMaurice White as one exampleof why the media and publicshould have access to officers’dash cam videos. This was fol-lowed by an investigation of an-other incident involving thesame officer some monthslater for which the video wasnot readily released.
“Transparency in govern-ment offers the public perfor-mance measures and account-ability which can be monitoredand reported by the media” saidWilson.
Candidates for the Board ofEducation in four CimarronCounty school districts file Dec-larations of Candidacy begin-ning at 8 a.m. Monday, Decem-ber 7.
Vicki Turner, Secretary of theCimarron County ElectionBoard, said the filing period endsat 5 p.m. Wednesday, Decem-ber 9.
The Board of Education po-sitions at stake will be filled atthe Annual School Electionscheduled February 9, 2009. Ifno candidate receives morethan 50% of the total votes castin this election, the two candi-dates receiving the highest num-
School Board CandidatesNeed to Register by Dec. 9
ber of votes will meet in an elec-tion on Tuesday, April 6, 2009.
Offices for which Declara-tions of Candidacy will be ac-cepted at the County ElectionBoard office include the follow-ing:
Keyes School District—Of-fice No. 5.
Felt School District——Of-fice No. 5
Boise City School District—Office No. 5
Plainview School District——Office No. 1
Filing for Annual School Elec-tion opens 8:00 A.M. December7, 2009 Closes 5:00 A.M. De-cember 9, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY – Okla-homans would be guaranteed toreceive their tax refund within 30days under legislation proposedby an Oklahoma City lawmaker.
State Rep. Mike Reynoldssaid the bill is necessary to pre-vent tax refunds from being with-held in a misguided attempt todeal with the state’s budget short-fall. Reynolds said his concernstems from a past example of thegovernor’s approach to increas-ing revenue. Previously thegovernor was able to get a lawpassed that caused considerablehardship to retail businessesacross Oklahoma. The legislation
required that sales tax reportsbe filed twice a month,forcing virtually every retailbusiness across the state tochange their accounting systemand remit tax that in many caseshad not even been collectedyet.
Reynolds said if the gover-nor would hurt businesses in anattempt to move a few milliondollars from one fiscal year tothe next, it’s likely he would bewilling to do the same to tax-payers to move hundreds ofmillions.
“Under current law, it
is legal for the governor to or-der the Tax Commission to de-lay the issuance of tax refundsuntil June 30,” said Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City. “We’ve seensimilar schemes used in otherstates, such as California, whenpoliticians’ appetite for spend-ing exceeds the available rev-enue. By withholding refunds,those states have been able toartificially delay necessary bud-get cuts for several months al-though they make the situationworse in the long run by takingthat action. My legislation willprevent the use of this unethi-cal accounting gimmick. Okla-
Legislation to Guarantee that Oklahomans Receive Tax Refundshomans who play by the rulesshould not be deprived of theirtax refunds.”
Under Reynolds’ legislation,the Oklahoma Tax Commissionwould be required to provide taxrefunds within 30 days of receiv-ing a taxpayer’s return.
“In this day of online filing,there’s no reason for it to takelonger than 30 days to returnexcess payments to workingfamilies,” Reynolds said. “My billwill provide families with cer-tainty and prevent the kind of fi-nancial mismanagement that haswreaked havoc in other states.”
Santa EstablishesMail Delivery
With the cooperation ofThe Boise City News, Santahas established a mailboxthat will get CimarronCounty Children’s letters tothe North Pole on time.
Any letters mailed toSanta will pass through hisbox here at The Boise CityNews and we will forwardthem. Also, each letter willbe printed in The Boise CityNews ahead of Christmas,and since Santa is a longtimesubscriber, he will have twiceas good a chance to see whatCimarron County Childrenwant on Christmas morning.
“A conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice.” - Norbert Wiener
MARK STALDER-58
1755 Gilbert Stuart US, por-trait painter (painted Wash-ington)1795 Sir Rowland Hill intro-duced 1st adhesive postagestamp (1840)1838 Cleveland Abbe US,meteorologist (Father of theWeather Bureau)1923 Tom Fears NFL end,coach (Los Angeles Rams,New Orleans Saints)1937 Bobby Allison autoracer (3 time winner ofDaytona 500)1943Valerie PerrineGalveston TX, actress(Slaughterhouse 5, Super-man)1948 Ozzy Osbourne En-gland, rock vocalist (BlackSabbath-Bark at the Moon)1949 Heather MenziesToronto Ontario, actress(Jessica-Logan’s Run)1965 Katarina Witt StaakenGerman Democratic Repub-lic, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)1968 Brendan Fraser India-napolis IN, actor (SchoolTies, 20 Bucks)
1621 Galileo perfects thetelescope1818 Illinois admitted as21st US state1828 Andrew Jacksonelected 7th President of US,John C Calhoun Vice-Presi-dent1833 Oberlin College inOhio, 1st truly coeduca-tional college opens1947 Tennessee Williamsplay “A Streetcar NamedDesire” premieres in NewYork NY1948 1st US woman armyofficer not in medical corpssworn-in1950 Cleveland Browns lastNFL team with no-pass game(beat Philadelphia 13-7)1961 George Blanda ofHouston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal1962 Edith SpurlockSampson sworn-in as 1st USblack female judge
“It is incumbent on everygeneration to pay its owndebts as it goes. A principlewhich if acted on would saveone-half the wars of theworld.” - Thomas Jefferson
D u a n eFerguson,D e l a n eSchwindt,
Tri-County Electricand the others whoput up the Christmaslights
Those who havebeen or are al-tering climatedata
ABOVE, SOUTH 287 BY THE OVERPASS, BELOW, NORTH 287
