County commissioners act fast, get Memorial Hospital new resuscitator
— Sequoyah County Times, April 21, 1950
25 Years Ago
—Webbers Falls Fire Chief Larry Chappell said five fire departments helped extinguish a garage fire, which endangered three nearby homes, Friday afternoon in Webbers Falls.
Chappell said two firemen were overcome with heat exhaustion while fighting the blaze and had to be attended to by Muskogee EMS which responded to stand by. Both firemen recovered, he said.
Johnny Sheffield’s Garage was destroyed by the fire which was reported about 3:30 p.m. The fire also destroyed antique cars and equipment stored in the building. Responding to the fire were volunteer fire departments from Webbers Falls, Gore, Porum, Buckhorn and Rural Fire Protection District No. 1 near Gore, Fire Chief Dana Tracey, of District No. 1 said.
50 Years Ago
(From the April 17, 1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —A $10,000 bond was approved by Central School District voters Tuesday by a vote of 99 to 9. The money will be used to help in the rebuilding of the High School burned on Jan. 23.
According to Supt. Bob Barbee $10,000 was the maximum bond indebtedness the community could legally incur at this time.
It is estimated that the reconstruction of the school will cost around $300,000. It was insured for about $120,000 including building and equipment.
75 Years Ago
(From the April 21, 1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Gay Way roller rink will open with skating beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday it has been announced by Joe Rigsby.
Rigsby said that the skating floor was finished yesterday after two days of sanding to make the floor smooth.
—When County Commissioners Frank “Tickey” Green, M.G. “Punch” Fink and Bill Morgan discovered that the all-important resuscitator had been left off the equipment list at the Sequoyah Memorial Hospital through an error, they decided to do something about it, and fast.
Due to their prompt actions, the hospital now has the most modern combination resuscitator, inhalator and aspirator that can be purchased, and the administrators, Mr. and Mrs. Murray L. Lloyd, are extremely proud of it.
“This apparatus is really a beauty,” said Mr. Lloyd. “It is a very necessary piece of equipment and has proved highly successful in modern hospitals everywhere. Why, I know of one person who suffered a heart attack not far from here who was revived with a resuscitator after a physician had pronounced him dead.”
100 years ago
(From the April 17, 1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Moffett the “Little Juarez” of this part of Oklahoma suffered a raid Monday, when Sheriff C.M. Gay, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Lee Blair swooped down on the little village about noon hour and seized 15 pint bottles of “Arkansas River Moonshine” and one and one-half gallons in another raid.
—A statewide search was begun this week for Ed Miller, a farmer of Vian, who mysteriously disappeared from the home of Lee Haraway, two miles east of Vian, on the night of March 6. Miller suddenly dropped out of sight like the earth had swallowed him. No trace of the missing man has been found or even a clue of this whereabouts.
Although no actual indications of foul play surrounded his departure, Sheriff C.M. Gay and Undersheriff Bert Redmon expressed belief that he had been whisked away by kidnappers. The officers based their opinion on the condition under which Miller left. The farmer’s coat, hat, pipe, tobacco, cigarettes and other personal belongings were scattered over the Haraway home on the night of March 6. Miller had been making his home at the Haraway place during the past two years and he had always taken care of the Haraway children, while the parents were out visiting, and on the night of his disappearance Miller was left in charge of the Haraway children.
—Sequoyah County came to the fore in 1924 and did herself proud in the matter of corn production. Accurate statistics are not at hand, but inquiry made of the railroad shipping agents and of local buyers and shippers disclose that easily 175 cars, and probably more were shipped out of this county during December, January, February and March. Based upon an average of 600 bushels per car, which is a conservative and close estimate, the total of shipments would run about 105,000 bushels.
