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TODAY IN HISTORYOCT. 15

DEATHS-PG. 3

BOISE CITY WEATHER Hi Lo Prec

Tues. Oct. 6 58 42Wed. Oct. 7 65 40 .18Thur. Oct. 8 57 39Fri. Oct. 9 58 33Sat. Oct. 10 37 24Sun. Oct. 11 47 24 .04Mon.Oct.12 53 30MARKETSWheat $ 4.28 bush.Milo $ 2.99bush.Corn $3.63 bush. (spot prices subject to change)

BORN ON OCT. 15

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

JOHN DAVIDSON- 101ALBERT WARNER- 67PETE FERNANDEZ-59

GARY IKELER- 46

1914: The U.S. House of Rep-resentatives approves theClayton Antitrust Act to pro-hibit monopolistic businesspractices.1917: Dutch courtesan MataHari is executed by theFrench after being suspectedof spying for Germany.1945: Pierre Laval, primeminister of Nazi-occupiedVichy France, is executed bya firing squad for treasonagainst France.1946: Hermann WilhelmGöring, the second most pow-erful leader of Nazi Germany,poisons himself hours beforehis scheduled execution forwar crimes during World WarII.1964: Soviet premier NikitaKhrushchev is deposed.

Virgil, Roman poet (70 BC)Sir P.G. Wodehouse, Anglo-American writer (1881)Friedrich Nietzche, Germanphilosopher and poet (1844)John Kenneth Galbraith,American economist (1908)Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., U.S.historian (1917)Lee (Lido) Iacocca, Ameri-

can corporate executive(1924)Jim Palmer, American base-

ball player (1945)

SOMETHING TOTHINK ABOUT

10-8Robert DeLeon- leavingthe scene of an accident in-volving an injury, public in-toxication, furnishing alco-hol to a minor, times four,allowing the use of an auto-mobile to an unauthorizedperson, held on a bond of$8,000.Marty Cruz Buckley- Noseatbelt, possession ofmarijuana, and parapherna-lia.Mariah Klausner- Posses-sion of marijuana, and para-phernalia.

10-9Amanda Munson- Eightmultiple charges of fraud,released on a bond of $62,000.

“Character — the willing-ness to accept responsibil-ity for one’s own life — isthe source from which self-respect springs.” - JoanDidion

Ted Smith of Boise City, along with his wife Fay, drovetheir restored Ford Ranchero in Saturday’s Homecom-ing Parade at OPSU in Goodwell. The Smith’s are OPSUgrads and returned for the 100th anniversery of theschool, founded as P.A.I. in 1909.

By C.F. DavidAmanda Ellen Munson, of

South Boise City was arrestedFriday on eight separatecharges of obtaining cash ormerchandise by false pretenses/con game, and conspiracy toobtain cash or merchandise byfalse pretenses/con game, andcomputer fraud/unlawful use ofa computer system.

Seven of the eight chargesare felonies and carry fines upto $10,000 and sentences of 10years or more each.

Boise City Police Chief DaleHarper broke the case after an

Woman Booked on Charges of Fraudinvestigation beginning back inJanuary, with a call from a peaceofficer in Weatherford, Texas.

The case involves items forsale on a site like Craigslist, anda check or money order beingsent for more than the agreedprice with a request that the dif-ference be returned to the ship-ping agent, (Munson). After theindividual banked the check/money order, and returned thedifference, they were then noti-fied by their bank that the check/money order was written on aficticious account and that is was

no good. The individual wasthen left with the loss of themoney he had withdrawn fromhis account.

(In the meantime Munsonhad sent the money to a SouthAfrican Account.)

Munson appeared on Mon-day without benefit of an attor-ney. Judge Ronald Kincannongave her until November 2 toobtain an attorney and explainedthat since she was out on a bondof $62,000 the court consideredher able to hire her own attor-ney.

by Sandy HawkinsEta Alpha Sorority held a 50th

reunion, September 19, 2009 inthe Christian Church fellowshiphall. It was very festive with hur-ricane candle lights & rainbowtheme. After registering in, thegroup enjoyed greeting & meet-ing plus exploring the scrap books,memorabilia & old minutes. Wehave minutesfrom the veryfirst meeting...A beautifulsalad luncheonwas enjoyedby thirty mem-bers andguests.

We thenbegan our EtaAlpha Journey

Late in1958 EpsilonSigma Alpha,G a m m aG a m m aChapter orga-nized a newESA chapterof 10 youngladies: Lois(Alexander)Burkhalter,B o n n i e(Balenseifen) Darby, MaryChapman, Mary Crabtree,Beverly Harvey, SandraHawkins, Marvel Jones, RozelleNail, Marian Roberts, and GerrySnapp.

Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Eta Al-pha #2797 had their first meetingJanuary 6, 1959. Of interest inthat first meeting: dues were setat 25 cents a month, memberswere fined 10 cents for not wear-ing ESA pin, each hostess pro-vided a gift and we bought 10cents chances on it, our first fundraiser was one of “those manyBake Sales in the basement ofthe courthouse” we were to bringtwo items for sale or donate $2.Set a limit of $5 for a gift, firstbaby born after joining, when amember got a 1/2 book of GreenStamps or $1. Our very first Phil-anthropic Project was the hospi-tal - we put flowers on the foodtrays for Easter Sunday and pur-chased $25 worth of neededkitchen utensils.

One of the first needs of anorganization is money, some ofour Fund Raisers: Card Partiesin Legion Hall ($1 per person withcomplimentary pie & coffee)happened lots of Saturday nights,prizes were given for pinochle &pitch winners. This was in thedays when people came to townon Saturday evening & actuallyhad time to visit & play cards.

We remember selling pepper& vanilla, our famous travelingsuitcase with embroidered pillow-cases, aprons & tea towels forsale that we made. Also weav-ing a wool rug, sold chances on itduring fair in 1961, Halloweencarnivals, Hunters dinners, Con-cessions at farm sales.

October, 1963 we had a HatShowing & a Dessert Tasting inFarm Bureau Bldg (two peoplefrom Sears in Amarillo broughtladies hats) I personally have avivid memory of this event as Ihad my first & only migraineheadache & our youngest son,Tod was born the next day.

In 1976 thanks to GerrySnapp we hit upon a goodmoney maker....CimarronCounty Historical Book... westill have them for sale, Birth-day calendars for 10 years &Holiday Bazaars This October31 we will have our 26th An-nual Holiday Bazaar.

Our sorority is three fold -

Educational, Philanthropic &Social. ALWAYS HAS BEENAND ALWAYS WILL BEWhen you hear the word so-rority what do you think about?Quote from our ESA Book“The Ideals of Epsilon SigmaAlpha” the Pioneer Foundershad a definite objective inthat they wanted all membersto be closely bound by ties -which would last. So, theydecided the new organiza-tion should be a sorority, orSisterhood.

Note: The word Sorority isderived from the Latin rootword Soror meaning sister.Thus was founded the firstoff-campus sorority. It was atits inception, primarily for

girls and women who had notattended college.

I really feel this early trainingis what made us such a strongand lasting sorority.

In 1979 we chose to pull outof ESA International & Stateaffiliation. It was difficult forgirls to attend down state meet-ings & we wanted to supportour community more. We setup bylaws, purpose, opening &closing rituals the whole enchi-lada - Many said it won’t workIT HAS!! for 50 years anyway.I feel we are an even closer

knit group. We patterned it af-ter what we learned & did whileESA affiliated, kept the samegoals, just not the State & In-ternational affiliation.

Some of our Philanthropic(simply stated means a desireto help mankind - service to oth-ers) Projects: Hospital, Thrashcontainer for the City, Muscu-

lar D Drives,March of Dimes(canvas door todoor) Helpedwith Soutar Me-morial LibraryOpening & Dedi-cation & cashdonations everyyear, St JudesHospital, Spon-sored several littlegirls in the annual“Little Miss Pag-eant”, NursingHome BD par-ties & donationsover the years,

1975 firstSFTD Celebra-tion we cookedour famousChuck WagonBean Feed with200# of beans,

200 # cabbage, 10 cases ofApplesauce & White Bread,fed 800 people. In charge ofSFTD parade for 17 years, pro-vided cash prizes for several

years after that Furnished aroom at the hospital, bought 25bedspreads & numerous otherneeded items In charge orhelped with at least 20 or moreCancer or Medical Needs FundRaisers Sponsored in SpecialOlympics, Christmas Gifts toWestern State Hospital 6 yearsDonations for both Girl & BoysScouts over the years joinedGamma Gamma to do a Ban-quet for Teachers In 1968 &1969 we sent goodie boxes toViet Nam 1969 we circulated apetition to “get prayer back inschool” 1982 we started the tra-dition of a SFTD Parade Mar-shal

In 1984 we saw or hoped wesaw a need for a Sister Soror-ity. At that time I think therewere only two active sororities.We felt these young womenwould benefit from the organi-zation and the community wouldbenefit from them. With that inmind we organized “TauOmega” Sorority... This is their25th year!! Mission Accom-plished!! They are a hard work-ing & very active group. Theyhave 14 members with Kim

Local Sorority Celebrates the Big 50 In 2009Mizer & Candi Baird being ac-tive all 25 years. Held a coffeefor past SFTD Parade Marshalsin May 1999 In 2000 we had aSFTD Queen’s Tea

2003 came our biggest everproject: Memorial Memory Ga-zebo & Garden at CimarronMemorial Hospital, Program &Dedication was in May, 2004.Jan Terry was our leader in thiseffort. Eta Alpha adoptedGrandma Ethel in 1995. We tookher grocery shopping or did hershopping, did her laundry, cleanedhouse in later years, errands forher, perms, provided monthly TVcable, BD parties and whateverelse she needed until she passedaway in 2006. She had no fam-ily and was homeless for 7 yearsbefore coming to CimarronCounty. She was one of ourmost treasured projects, shetaught us a lot. Even though shelived on less than $500 a monthshe always had a gift for anycancer or medical fund that wasgoing on. Dollie is our special ladynow - she calls us her “angels”Heh, it’s her choice! Sponsoredseveral senior citizens for Life-lines

Christmas Love gifts, some-times the whole family, othertimes just the children Donationsto Red Ribbon Week, planted atree at the Library

Not nearly all but gives yousome idea of what we have beenable to accomplish over 50 years

with MUCH HELP.Our Memory Table had 8X10

pictures of our Eleven HeavenlySisters. During the programJoyce Farmer gave a touchingtribute to them: Marian Roberts,Mary Chapman, Rozelle Nail,Becky (Hathway) Poteet, E-Vona Thrall, Janice (Hinkle)Brown, Pat Overbay, FidelisPugh, Melba Witten, Carol Will-iams, & Zelda Sweet. Rosie wasour only constant member.

Beverly Harvey from SanAngelo, TX won the door prizefor coming the greatest distance(425 miles) to attend and Donna(Hall) Stewart second comingfrom Edmond.

Ended our day with a visit tothe Gazebo and Memory Gar-den, it was more than beautiful!The sisters still had lots to saywhen it was time for good byes,if we ever do this again we won’twait so long & we’ll have aweekend rather than just a day.I want to end with a Big Thanksto the people of CimarronCounty for supporting us for 50years. We all know this is a greatplace to live!!.

Some of the guests and members around the fountain inthe Memory Garden at Cimarron Memorial Hospital.Back Lto R, Mary Ann Compton, Barbara James, MaryCrabtree, Charlene Stiner, Marvel Jones, Beverly Harvey,Jan Terry, Donna Zollinger, Sandra Baird, Joyce Farmer,Donna Stewart. Front L-R, Frances Robertson, SandyHawkins, and Sharon Welch

Water Fountain in theGarden at CMH, an EtaAlpha project

CMH Garden and Flowers

A fatality accident occurredearly on Saturday, the tenth ofOctober, ten miles west of BoiseCity, in Cimarron County onU.S. highway 56.

A 1981 Chevrolet pickupdriven by Pedro E. Fernandez,59, of Clayton, N.M. was eastbound on U.S. 56 when it de-parted the roadway to the right,and struck a guardrail. The ve-hicle rolled two times coming torest on its wheels.

Fernandez was ejected out ofthe drivers side window on thesecond roll. He was pronounceddead at scene from head ,neck,and trunk injuries, and taken toCimarron Mortuary.

Seatbelts were equipped, butnot in use.

The accident was investi-gated by O.H.P. Trooper Bran-don Bussey of the Boise Citydetachment, assisted by size andweights O.H.P. Trooper BoydPerry, of the Boise City detach-ment, Cimarron CountySheriff’s Office, and the Cima-rron County E.M.S.

Accident Fatalto N.M. Man

Benefit forPresleyBoydstun

by Sandy HawkinsAll proceeds from the

Door Prize Winnings at EtaAlpha’s Holiday Bazaar onOctober 31, 2009 will go tohelp Presley Boydstun fightLeukemia. Presley was di-agnosed with AcuteLymphomic Leukemia earlyin May. She also has anothervery rare disease calledPhiladelphia 2. She is takingchemotherapy and othertreatments at this time inHouston, TX. She is gravelyill and has already lost over30 pounds.

Presley is the twelve yearold daughter of Eric & Peri-Ann Boydstun of Houston,TX and granddaughter ofCharlene & Bob Wilson ofBoise City. She has a six yearold sister, Piper Jae. Eric is a1987 graduate of BCHS.Eric & Peri-Ann are stayingwith Presley in the hospital24/7. Eric stays at night & ofcourse works in the day.Peri-Ann has quit her job tobe with her daughter. Friends helping with care forlittle sister, Piper.

For a $1 donation or 6 for$5 you can have your namein the pot for a Bakers Rackof burnished bronze iron withtwo glass shelves. This willbe drawn for at 4:00 pm. onOctober 31 at the HolidayBazaar in the Fair Building.You do not need to be presentto win. The Bakers Rack ison display at Parker Furni-ture and tickets are availablethere or from any Eta Alphamember and at the Bazaar.Besides financial help to thisyoung family your donationwill lift them up by just know-ing that Cimarron Countypeople care.

A fund has been estab-lished at Farmers andStockman’s Bank, inClayton, N.M, forRuby Lawrence, thedaughter of MaxineHouts. She is under-going treatment forcancer. Funds can beleft with Maxine or atthe bank.

ATTENTION!!

“I’m not young enoughto know everything.” - SirJames Matthew Barrie