Board agrees to name field after Lattimore
— Sequoyah County Times, Aug. 14, 1975
From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times
25 years ago
(From the Aug. 17, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —“People used to drop their dogs off in the country if they didn’t want them anymore, that’s not happening now, they’re dropping them off right here,” Muldrow City Manager David Taylor said Monday.
Taylor said the pound picks up numbers of dogs every day in downtown Muldrow. He added the city puts an average of 15 dogs to sleep every two weeks.
He said the dog pound is always full of unwanted dogs or dogs that appear to be unwanted, which run lose without collars.
Taylor urges pet owners to take care of their dogs and put collars on them. He also added to have dogs vaccinated for rabies.
50 Years Ago
(From the Aug. 14, 1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Sallisaw School Board agreed Monday night to a request made by the Booster Club to name the Black Diamond football stadium in memory of Perry Floyd Lattimore.
Members of the board agreed unanimously that the stadium should be named the Perry F. Lattimore Stadium.
They also agreed to permit the boosters to erect a monument somewhere on the stadium grounds.
W.S. Stavely said that he had mixed emotions about putting any name on the stadium because of vandalism that has taken place there.
“There’s no telling what a memorial to Perry will look like two years from now,” Stavely said.
They all agreed that the threat of vandalism should not stop the project.
75 Years Ago
(From the Aug. 18, 1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Word was received Tuesday morning by his parents that First Sergeant Curtis Allen Fair, 27, of Sallisaw, was killed in action in Korea on Aug. 4, becoming the first casualty in the current conflict from Sequoyah County.
A letter from his brother, Sgt. Earl Fair, 21, who is in the same company, to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Fair of Sallisaw, gave some of the details, but to date no official notice has been received by them from the War Department.
100 Years Ago
(From the Aug. 14, 1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —This past week has witnessed some interesting developments in connection with the Sequoyah County Free Fair and has aroused Sallisaw citizens to the realization that everything is not what is seems and that her chances of having the Fair located here in years to come are not as good as might be hoped for.
Under Senate Bill passed more than a year ago, by State Senator E. M. Frye and Representative Watson, the county fair was supposed to have been definitely and finally located here in Sallisaw and announcement of such was made through the press.
The bill did not specifically name Sallisaw nor Sequoyah County, but was supposed to gain the same ends.
This week, following disclosures made by citizens of Vian, it was found that the Bill passed last year did not contain the correct figures.
—Joyland Park, once the amusement center of “Little Juarez” or Moffett, where alleged gambling dens and bootleg “joints” once operated, has undergone a change. Now revival services are being conducted in the pavilion by Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Barham, according to an announcement by Rev. Mr. Barham Wednesday morning.
The revivalist said that meetings are being conducted every night and that large crowds are attracted to the tabernacle. Many conversions also are being obtained, he asserted.
The services will be continued through Sunday and perhaps longer he said.
