Believe Sprinkle somewhere in Texas

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times

25 Years Ago

(From the Jan. 23,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

— A group of Cherokee citizens are circulating a referendum petition requesting the legislative pay increase approved last month by the Cherokee Nation tribal council be put to a vote.

The petition organizers are confident they will garner the 400 signatures needed to get the issue placed on the ballot.

The tribal council passed an act in December, which will become effective on April 1, to raise their compensation and provide them with fringe benefits.

The act placed the council in a separate category as a “special class of employees to be known as elected legislative officials” who will be paid $23,800 annually plus a meeting allowance of $4,800.

The act will also provide council members with dependent health insurance, dental insurance, family dental insurance, health insurance, long term disability insurance, workers compensation insurance and life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

50 Years Ago

(From the Jan. 23,1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

— Consumers of Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation (AOG) can expect to pay $12 per year more on the yearly bill, according to company president Billy Walker. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission rejected all protests and authorized the gas company an increase of 11 cents per million cubic feet.

—It was learned during the regular meeting of the Sequoyah County Board of County Commissioners Monday that if they want to build a new jail they will have to come up with the money somewhere other than Federal Community Development Funds.

Frank Griffin, of the Sequoyah County Development Council, attended the commissioners’ meeting and informed them that he had received word rural county governments are not eligible applicants for community development funds.

75 Years Ago

(From the Jan. 27,1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

— Formal open house for the new steam laundry, which is known together with the Super Cleaners as the Super Cleaners and Steam laundry, is being held today at the new building.

Woodrow Tillard and Arvil Smith, owners, have announced that the laundry will be open from 8 a.m. till after 9 p.m. today for the opening.

—lumber and a quantity of other building materials are being moved to the site of the new skating rink to be constructed soon on Joe Rigsby’s place onefourth mile north of Highway 64 on State Highway 59.

“We will probably start working on the building sometime next week,” said Rigsby, “and it should be finished in the early part of March.”

—Magazine customers at the Palace Drug will be happy to note that Dale Byrd, manager, has rebuilt his magazine rack so that it now occupies the east wall at the front of the store, instead of being out from the wall, partially blocking the aisle.

“It will give much more floor space this way’’ said Byrd, “and I think it will be a better arrangement all the way around. It gives more space to those who are looking for magazines, too. They won’t have to crowd up and stumble over each other now’’ There are six tiers in the newly arranged rack

100 years ago

(From the Jan. 29,1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat)

— Neither the county attorney nor the sheriff have received any favorable word from Texas authorities relative to the apprehension of E.E. Sprinkle for whom a warrant was sworn out last week by County Attorney Harry Pitchford. Immediately following the issuance of the warrant, county and city authorities were notified at Dallas, Texas, to arrest him and notify local officials but the word which came back indicated that the bird had flown before the instructions reached Dallas. He was supposed to have left Dallas for Fort Worth one day before the telegram reached the Chief of Police at Dallas.

City Manager Fred Johnston is carefully auditing the city records in an effort to ascertain just how much shortage will be found. It will probably be several hundred dollars, all of which, is amply covered by a surety bond. The surety company will probably not make an audit until after a formal claim is made upon them by the city for whatever shortage may be found.

Mr. Johnston has not yet named a city clerk to succeed Sprinkle but the appointment will probably be made within the next week —Max Reager, of the Ford agency announced the installation of several pieces of modern machinery in the mechanical department of his concern. Mr. Reager also has installed modern steel part bins in the sales department. The new equipment amounts to thousands of dollars, which in turn will make possible better service to Ford owners than in the past. Mr. Reager invites the public to his place of business to see these additional improvements.