Hunicutt breaks jail during thunderstorm
(From the May 7,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)
25 Years Ago
-Louisiana-based Francis Drilling Fluids on Thursday announced the opening of a facility in Sallisaw that will provide the area with 10 new jobs and more planned for the future.
Mike Francis, president and CEO of Francis Drilling Fluids Ltd. Of Crowley, La., his family and company officials, flew into Sallisaw Thursday to attend the closing on the property, five acres on Maple Street just north of the District 3 County Bam.
Francis said, “Sallisaw is just the type of community Francis Drilling has been looking for to open a new facility. Our market research shows that there are plenty of well-qualified people in the Sallisaw area, making the area the natural choice for our company’s 11th location.”
Francis said the newest location in Sallisaw will be mainly trucking and he expects to put about $1 million into the facility and personnel during the first year here.
—The ribbon cutting for the new manufacturing facility in Roland, Therma Tru, manufacturer of steel and fiber-glass doors, is slated for 9 a.m. June 21. “We’re moving right along,” Dave Haddix, corporate officer at Therma Tru, said.
The construction of the 375,000 square feet facility began late last summer, Haddix said.
Haddix said space and location was available in Roland and that was important in choosing the location of the facility. “The ability for expansion was a plus.”
50 Years Ago
(From the May 15,1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Members of Ironworker Local 582 out of Tulsa continue to picket Trend Construction of Oklahoma City, doing work at the Kerr-McGee Plant between Gore and Vian.
The pickets went up on Monday, May 5 and union people say they will be there until their demands are met.
They say that Trend Construction Co. is a non-union organization and doesn’t pay prevailing wages.
75 Years Ago
(From the May 19,1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Johnnie William Hunicutt, Muskogee, who was being held in the Sequoyah County jail on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and investigation took advantage of the noise created by an electrical storm here Wednesday night and escaped, according to Howard Brown, jailer.
The 17-year-old boy, who recently was involved in a chase with Highway Patrolman Jack Larmour during which several shots were exchanged, tied six blankets together and slid out through the bars on the south side of the jail, after knocking out a bar that had been sawed through before and welded back.
Only two other prisoners were in the jail at the time, Tom Calcoate Jr. of Muldrow, who is awaiting a sanity hearing after causing a disturbance at his father’s home near Akins recently, and Don Chronister, Fort Smith, Ark., being held on a traffic violation.
The escape was discovered by Brown when he prepared breakfast and took it into the jail at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. When Hunicutt didn’t come out of his cell, Brown investigated and discovered the blankets hanging outside the window.
100 years ago
(From the May 15,1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Pliny S. Frye, local manager of the Merchants Insurance Agency made settlement on Tuesday with the City Commissioners and City Manager covering the loss to the city from the alleged defalcation of E.E. Sprinkle last January, during his period of service as city clerk. The amount paid over to the city was $592.62, this being the amount disclosed by the special audit made and submitted to the city manager by a reputable accounting firm of Muskogee in March, following the defalcation. The city was protected by a bond of the U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Co.
-Sequoyah County Times, May 19,1950
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