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LOG ONTO WWW.ALTUSTIMES.COM FOR ARCHIVES • GAMES • FEATURES • E-EDITION • POLLS & MORE Devyn Dennis BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES: Happy Birthday today to: Devyn Dennis, Stephanie Tucker, Angie Murphy, and April Marion Weather Sports What’s A few thunderstorms pos- Maldonado, Nortonen Happening? sible; highs in the upper throw gems at Check out the Red River 70s..................6A Southeast.................. 4A Calendar.................... 3A Vol. 112 • No. 258 FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 50 cents daily/ $1.50 Sunday Alley Oops! Someone left big mess for homeowner, Street Department At the Tuesday, April 3, Altus City Council meeting, Council member Scot Simco mentioned an item in his com- The Altus Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, ments section. It regarded a woman April 7 at 2 p.m. at the City (Hightower) Park located on who had called various City depart- the corner of Park Lane and Broadway. This is sponsored ments and could not get anyone to by the City of Altus and McDonalds, with KWHW/KQ106, come clean up some cement and bricks local car dealers, Lily of the Valley No. 135 OES, the Myrtle that had been dumped behind her home B. Scott, Willie Gallop Consistary #377, St. James Lodge on Willard. Simco expressed frustra- #229 and James Crane Royal Arch Chapter. The hunt is for tion with the situation and asked why children ages zero to 12. it takes so long to get anything done in Altus. Thursday morning, Holmes Willis, Altus Street Commissioner, had work- OSU Extension ers on site to clean up this mess that had been obviously dumped behind the woman’s house. The size of the mess (see photos) meant several man Office offering hours of work, but there is no source for funding that effort. A big thanks to the Street Department for taking care Canola Field of this matter. Most cities have fines for infractions like this, Commissioner Willis said. He checked with Chief of Operations, Bob Stephenson and Altus Tour on Monday does not currently have such fines or The Harmon and Jackson County OSU Extension Offices fees in place. An ordinance would have are offering a Canola Field Tour on Monday, April 9, at the to be approved by the Altus Municipal Kearld Searcy farm, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Authority (AMA) or the City Council Directions to the field site are 4.5 miles west of Duke to or possibly both to set fines or fees for county road 186, turn south and go 3 miles, then turn back this type of infraction. west for .75 miles and the field is on the south side of the Sometimes businesses charge cus- road. tomers to deliver appliances, and to take This meeting will deal with all aspects of canola produc- the old ones away. Instead of disposing tion and management, variety discussion, and harvest of the old appliance appropriately, some considerations. This should be an informative and timely leave those appliances in the alley. This meeting for those producing Canola this year. creates an extra burden for the City and If you are interested in looking at Canola please come on may also be a safety hazard. Sometimes out and attend this meeting. For more information contact appliances are left in unsafe condition the Jackson County Extension Office at 580-482-0823 or the where children or pets could crawl Harmon County Extension Office at 580-688-3584. inside them and become trapped. If hazardous items like these are found on private property or in alleys or right-of- Rust and mildew threaten ways, Code Enforcement (in the City) will handle it. If the items are on the street, call the non-emergency number Great Plains wheat to the Police Department (or Sheriff Greensboro, N.C., – tating tornadoes have creat- in the County). Barbara Burleson said Syngenta and the Cereals ed the perfect conditions for the most effective way to get the right Disease Laboratory are travelling rust spores. Every entity involved is to use the Altus City reporting rust and powdery year, stripe rust and leaf Citizen Concern System on the City of mildew development on rust pathogens ride wind Altus.org web site. If it’s an emergency winter wheat in the Central currents from the south- situation, call the Police Department in and Southern Great Plains ern states to the Dakotas, the City or the Sheriff’s Department in from Texas to Nebraska. infecting crops and, accord- the County. Syngenta recommends an ing to the Cereals Disease aggressive scouting pro- Laboratory, resulting in gram along with weather yield losses of more than 20 monitoring and timely fun- million bushels. gicide application. Tony Driver, a Syngenta Altus High School seniors This spring’s mild temper- serve as state Senate pages atures, moisture and devas- See WHEAT | 3A Mrs. Easter Bunny visits Altus Mrs. Easter Bunny, a.k.a. JoAnne Roberts, hopped around town this week to such places as McDonald’s for Altus High School seniors, Kerrstin Wenk, right, and Holly Leverett, left, recently served as a Senate pages for State Family Night, Wilson Headstart, First United Methodist Sen. Mike Schulz (R- Altus). Wenk from March 26 - 29, and Leverett from April 2-5. Kerrstin is the daughter of Altus Church, and English Village Nursing Center for their resident Robin Wenk; and Holly is the daughter of Altus residents Brad and Robin Leverett. Employee and Family Egg Hunt. 2 • Altus times FridAy, April 6, 2012 302883 Kincannon Funeral Home and Cremation Service Online Memorial Videos Altus • 482-1800 • Eldorado Kincannonfuneralhome.com www.kincannonfuneralhome.com k Guaranteed lowest funeral costs in SW Oklahoma 305116 the Becker Funeral Home attended Cameron Junior a 26 year career with Mike loving wife Phyllis; daugh- true friend. He will long be Chapel of Snyder with College in Lawton and then Follett Rare Coins, traveling ter, Audra Dawn Willis; loved and remembered. Linda Seal, Lake Kiowa, began his life-long career almost every weekend to son and daughter-in-law, An online guest book and officiating. as a coin dealer with Jack cities throughout the United Chance Wayne Willis and sympathy cards are avail- Don passed away on McClung Coins. On April States. His terrific memory Rachel; the light of his life able at www.beckerfuneral. Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 9, 1965 he married Phyllis power provided him unique and only grandchild, Bennie com following a long battle with (Smith) Willis and moved advantages in evaluating Val Willis; brothers, Jimmie diabetes and heart prob- to Wichita Falls, Texas, as and appraising large col- and Jackie Willis; and sister, Beavers lems. co-owner of the Wichita lections and estates. He Bennie Lee McDaniel. He Willard Beavers age 92 of Burial was in the Mountain Falls Coin Exchange. Four became one of the leading loved his family of cousins, Durant, died April 4, 2012, Park Cemetery under the months later, a car crash experts in the coin industry, many nieces and nephews in Sherman, Texas. Services direction of Becker Funeral outside of Houston per- and long time life member and all the great friends he are pending with Lowell- Home & Cremation Service manently impaired Don’s in the P.N.G., T.N.A. and has made in business and at Tims Funeral Home. of Snyder. long term health. In 1967, A.N.A. Along with his cous- Lake Kiowa. Don was born Sept. 7, Don moved to Marlow and in, Hunt, he always enjoyed He was preceded in death 1941, in Hobart, the sec- opened Don Willis Rare collecting anything and by his mother and father; Willis ond son of Bennie LeRoy Coin Company, traveling a everything- marbles, rattle- and a special sister, Kathy Funeral service for and Verla (Woodward) five state area buying and snake rattles, arrowheads, Jane. Donald Wayne Willis, 70, Willis. He graduated selling gold and rare date antiques, coins, tokens, ster- To know Don was to love of Lake Kiowa, Texas, were from Mountain Park coins. In 1974, Don moved ling silver, stamps, etc. him. He was a great father, held at 10:30 a.m. today in High School in 1959. He to Dallas, Texas, and began Don will be missed by a wonderful provider, and a Spending hike sought to help end veterans’ homelessness WASHINGTON _ Darren Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, war in the next five years Republicans in the House of ing lived on the streets, out of Spencer, a 39-year-old Army vet- where he lives with his 18-year-old To get the job done, President Representatives proposed elimi- Dumpsters, in horrible conditions, eran from Tacoma, Wash., found son, Lamont. Barack Obama and the Veterans nating 10,000 vouchers as a way and because of a voucher have got himself homeless after losing his “I still have a lot of stress, but Affairs Department are thinking to save $75 million from the 2011 a place to live and are now back . $15.45-an-hour job as a furniture that’s one thing I don’t have to big, asking Congress to increase federal budget, Murray led the … My passion comes from that,” mover a year ago. He takes pills stress about,” Spencer said. “It’s spending for veterans homeless fight to get the money reinstated. Murray said in an interview. for his depression and has trouble still hard, but at least now I have a programs by 33 percent next year, At the time, Republicans defended Murray, who also heads the hearing. He has no car, and his place to stay.” to $1.35 billion. the plan by saying that many of Senate Housing Appropriations unemployment benefits ran out in Spencer is among thousands of On Capitol Hill, Democratic Sen.