65 years ago, April 22, 1954
Newly Chosen Council Sits In on Meeting
Councilmen - elect, who will take office May 4, were special guests of the city council and received a briefing on the city’s financial status and major projects underway at the regular meeting in City hall Tuesday night.
Present were newly elected Councilmen Howard Legg, Bud
Scott, V. L. Mulkey and Leroy Kirkpatrick, who together with incumbent Riley Ozment will make up the new council. The council-elect received invitations from the present city dads to attend the session and ask any questions on city government they desired.
Both groups were seated around the council approved April bills, Mayor R. L. Crowder reported on the city’s financial status.
The council voted to have an audit of city books prepared and presented at the May 4 meeting, when the present council will meet to approve bills and then adjourn for the new council to be sworn into office.
Legion Names Five Delegates To Boys State
Tonkawa’s five delegates to Boys State were announced today by Ray Hamilton, chairman of the American Legion committee in charge.
Local delegates will be James McMillen, Don Witter, J. B. Mc-Coy, G. W. Peyton and Ralph Hembree. They were selected by a secret committee of the American Legion from a list of candidates composed of 15 juniors and 10 seniors selected by high school faculty members.
McMillen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Loris McMillen, Witter the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Witter, McCoy the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. O. McCoy, Peyton the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Peyton and Hembree the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hembree. Peyton is a senior and the other four are juniors.
They will attend Boys State, June 6-12 to be held on the campus of Oklahoma university in Norman.
THS Band Wins Class A Trophy In Competition
Tonkawa high school’s band won the perfect trophy in class A and high school musicians brought home four superior and three excellent ratings from Kingfisher’s Band Day Saturday.
The band, directed by Bob Stephens, won first place (Superior) in concert. Class A schools included those with enrollments of 175 to 250. Also competing in Band Day were class B and C bands.
Jack Ratterree, clarinetist, and Eddie Ward, French horn, both received superior-plus ratings. Bobby Carter was rated superior in clarinet. The brass sextet - composed of Jerry Glasgow, Joe Dean
Mills, Ward, Jack Elswick, Galen Shellhamer and Tom Schaffer - ...
