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 bcnews@ptsi.net

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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

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“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

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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