2,000 attend D-X formal opening here Saturday
— Sequoyah County Times, June 23, 1950
25 Years Ago
—“We’re ahead of schedule,” Muldrow Mayor Carl Fugett said.
The expansion of U.S. Highway 64, also known as Shawntel Smith Boulevard in Muldrow, which has been underway for more than a year, is now scheduled to be completed by January. Fugett said the completion of the new four-lane highway was initially slated for July 2001.
Fugett added the west-end of the highway will be completed in three months.
—Thurma Tru, a manufacturer of exterior door systems for new home construction and remodeling announced the opening of its new 400,000 squarefoot manufacturing and distribution facility in Roland. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday morning to mark the opening of the facility which is located on 601 Paw Paw Road, north of U.S. Highway 64.
“Its’s the biggest thing we’ve tried to accomplish here,” Roland City Manager Dave Redden said. “We’re tickled to death.”
50 Years Ago
(From the June 18, 1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Phillip Mark Chaffin of Oklahoma City pleaded guilty and was fined $150 Monday for floating nude in a raft on Lake Tenkiller Sunday.
75 Years Ago
(From the June 23, 1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —An estimated 2,000 persons visited the new D-X service station at the corner of Cherokee and Wheeler avenues Saturday at the formal opening and inspected the modern facilities now offered by Ray and James Farmer, operators.
The huge crowed which were attracted during the busiest hours of the day held down service speed a little, but over 500 purchases were made Saturday.
—Mrs. Hugh Ross, who is serving as chairman of the Sequoyah Memorial Hospital Benefit Drive for funds to get awnings and fans for the hospital was highly elated today when she learned that part of the funds to be raised by
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the Lions Club’s home talent play, “It’s A Date,” would go for this purpose.
Mrs. Ross said that her group had started a drive Wednesday in an effort to raise additional funds so that sufficient money will be available to carry out the much-needed hot weather improvements. She said that they had purchased a beautiful three-year-old gelding Palomino horse that will be given away to one of the Guild’s members on the last day of the Rodeo, September 16, at the County Free Fair.
She said that the Guild plans to place the names of every person who takes out a membership in a big box on the last day of the Rodeo and present the Palomino to the member whose name is drawn.
—All cabinet work on Holder’s new upstairs department for home furnishings, has been completed, Roy Holder said Thursday.
“As soon as the lighting has been installed and the woodwork and furniture are painted we will be ready to move our home furnishings merchandise to our new upstairs department,” Holder declared.
100 years ago
(From the June 19, 1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Chas. M. Fout, a former Sequoyah County farmer died Tuesday in a hospital at Texarkana, Arkansas, from gunshot wounds received in a fatal shooting affray at a dance that was being held at his home near Garland, Arkansas, on the night of June 6. He was paralyzed in his lower limbs, but medical authorities entertained hope that he would recover from his wounds.
Fout was giving a dance at his home when Luther Malone, a Texarkana man came out, and it is said he was reprimanded by Fout for his attentions to Fout’s wife. Taking offense at this, it is alleged that Malone opened fire on Fout, killing Howard Johnson, a former Sequoyah County farmer, on the spot and fatally wounding Fout and a stray bullet hitting J.M. Frost. All of the victims were tenant farmers on the large Bonham farm ten miles southwest of Sallisaw and when Mr. Bonham moved to Garland several years ago, these men accompanied him there.
