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-Sequoyah County Times, Dec. 14, 2000
From the files ofYour Sequoyah County Times
25 years ago
(From the Dec. 14,2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sallisaw asked for it, and they got it. Not the first winter storm which may have contributed to a light voter turnout Tuesday, but the temporary half-cent sales tax to fund the expansion of Carl Albert State College.
Voters in all of the city’s precincts favored the proposal.
The temporary half-cent sales tax will be combined with $1,475,000 in state funds already committed to the project, will increase the size of the building by 23,300 square feet. The expansion will include four additional classrooms, two science labs, four computer labs, a student union and activity center and an expanded parking lot.
The tax will expire in three to four years when it raises enough money to finish paying for the project.
50 Years Ago
(From the Dec. 11,1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Holley Carburetor Plant at Sallisaw will hold an open house Saturday Dec. 13 from noon until 4 p.m.
Everyone is invited to join in the guided tours which will be conducted through the plant and office areas.
Some machines will be in operation. Holley is a division of Colt Industries with head offices in New York City.
The Sallisaw plant which now employes over 250 people, began operation in the fall of 1973. It cost an estimated $16 million.
75 Years Ago
(From the Dec. 15,1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Board of Trustees of the Cookson Hills Electric Co-operative announced this week that the co-op has energized 21.4 miles of line, serving approximately 80 members, on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
This includes, they said, Tap 1 of the Watts school district; Tap 2 and 3, the Shiloh school district; Tap 7, east of Sallisaw; Tap 15, the Gans crossing community; Tap 4 the Badger Lee school district; Tap 8 and 11, southeast of Sallisaw; Tap 10, east of Sallisaw and Tap 13, north of Hanson.
The co-op spokesman expressed the hope that the members who have signed for energy along these lines who have not had their homes wired will do so in order to receive the benefit of energization. Approximately 65 percent of the members have their homes wired to receive this energy, he said.
—Kids, kids and more kids! You could hardly walk down the streets of Sallisaw Tuesday without being surrounded by “little people,” some of the 3,200 children from over Sequoyah County who came to town for the most successful Santa Clause Day and Christmas party ever sponsored by the Sallisaw Chamber of Commerce.
The huge number of children and their parents made up by far the biggest crowd ever to attend the annual affair.
Thousands of people were lined along both sides of Cherokee Avenue by 1:30 p.m., parade time, and soon the procession began to move slowly down the street led by Sallisaw’s new fire truck.
100 Years Ago
(From the Dec. 11,1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —County Superintendent Fred Mershon received word on Thursday that the school building northeast of Vian, and known as Pin Hook school, burned to the ground soon after school opened Thursday morning. The school is in District 67, and is one of the best rural schools in the county. From meagre advices received, it seems that the fire was caused by a defective flue and sparks flying into the loft of the building. The teacher and students started immediate removal of the desks and equipment and everything was saved. The building was a complete loss, and we are advised that there was no insurance coverage.
—The sheriff’s force Wednesday placed under arrest O.A. Slack from Cookson who arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon apparently in search of excitement. Earlier in the day he had trouble north of town and when he arrived here, and another run in with a local man who “showed him the way,” he went to the home of a friend in the nearby country and secured a few drinks and returned with the intention of trying a second round, but Deputy Sheriff Perry Chuculate met him almost before he got started and arrested him on a charge of carrying concealed weapons and being drunk. He is confined in the County jail awaiting preliminary hearing. Rumor has it that he is a tough citizen, and that he shot up Marble City in November. The sheriff’s office has held a warrant for his arrest, ever since that escapade.
