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Volume 112 No. 37 75 Cents Thursday December 16, 2010P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail [email protected]
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BORN ON DEC. 16
THIS DAY IN HISTORYDEC. 16
CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER
1863 George SantayanaSpain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)1890 Harlan Sandersfounder/CEO (KentuckyFried Chicken)1899 Sir Noel Coward play-wright (In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award)1901 Margaret Mead Phila-delphia PA, anthropologist(Coming of Age in Samoa)1917 Arthur C[harles]Clarke sci-fi author (2001,2010, Childhood’s End)1918 Henry Clarke fashionphotographer1939 Liv Ullman Tokyo Ja-pan, actress (Cries &Whispers, 40 Carats)1943 Steven Bochco pro-ducer (Hill St Blues, LALaw, St Elsewhere, NYPDBlue)1952 Elayne Boosler come-dienne (Night Court)1965 Cynthia Lynne WhiteOklahoma City OK, MissOklahoma-America (1991-top 10)
1631 Mount Vesuvius, Italyerupts, destroys 6 villages& kills 4,0001653 Oliver Cromwell be-comes Lord Protector ofEngland, Scotland & Ire-land1773 Big tea party in Bos-ton harbor-Indians welcome(Boston Tea Party)1809 Napoleon Bonapartedivorces EmpressJosephine by the FrenchSenate1897 1st submarine with aninternal combustion enginedemonstrated1907 Great White Fleetsails from Hampton Downson its World Cruise1926 Kenesaw MountainLandis renewed 7-years asbaseball commissioner1944 Battle of the Bulgebegins in Belgium1953 Charles E Yeager fliesover 2,575 kph (1,650 mph)in Bell X-1A (first man tofly at nearly two and one-half times the speed ofsound)
12-8Allen Wayne Gibson- war-rant, Stephens County,bonded out.
12-9Meghan Schuler, drivingunder suspension, bondedout
12-10Justin Wayne Hughes-pos-session of marijuana,bonded out. Paul Julius Nasy III- pos-session of marijuana,bonded out.Mark Edward Riggs- pos-session of marijuana,bonded out.Casey Allen Moore-Pos-session of marijuana,bonded out.
12-12James Losa Herring- War-rant out of Denver, Colo.,holding for Denver.
12-13Elizabeth Gallegos- Serv-ing time, eight days.
Dr. Scarlett Custer has arrived and is seeing patients atCimarron Memorial Hospital. Dr. Custer is a Doctor ofOsteopathy, and a graduate of O.S.U. school of medicine.
By C.F. DavidDr. Scarlett Custer said her
focus at Cimarron Memorial willbe hard sales, convincing herpatients to wean off artificialsweeteners, cigarettes and pop.
“I think that when you reallydecide to like yourself, you’lltake better care of yourself,” shesmiled.
One thing that is prominenton Custer’s desk is a smallGideon New Testament. She isof the Mormon faith whichpreaches against doing damageto the human body with stimu-lates and tobacco.
She defines the Bible as: Ba-sic Information Before LeavingEarth; I got that from a ChuckNorris book on tape,” she ex-plained with a smile.
She opened a one-gallon jugof filtered water, poured a glassand added a vitamin C powder,lemon and a natural sweetener,“This is what I’ll recommend toall my patients instead of pop.Cigarettes and pop take you tohell first and keep you there fora long time till you die,” sheadded.
No stranger to rural life,Custer was born and reared inCopan, a town of about 800,northeast of Tulsa, and south-west of Coffeyville, Kan.
“Our civic center was a ro-deo ground,” she laughed.
“When I was growing up Ialways took care of things, hu-man and animal,” she explained.
Upon graduating from highschool she attended O.S.U.where she received a degree inHome Economics.
“I sew really well and Iwanted to be a designer; but Icouldn’t leave home,” shesmiled.
Instead, she became a HomeExtension Agent; “But I wasn’tone for very long. I was 22; Ihad red hair, short skirts and ared convertible. The district su-pervisor told me I’d never behappy in Extension, she giggled.So I moved to Oklahoma City,
Dr. Scarlett Custer Arrives atCimarron Memorial Hosp.
got a job and ran down to O.U.to see what I wanted to be whenI grew up. That’s where theseed was planted for me to be adoctor.”
The counselor in charge oftesting told the 22-year-old thatshe probably hadn’t been chal-lenged yet as a student, and thatshe’d be happy as a doctor.
Custer instead, got married,pregnant and became a dentalassistant.
Post Vietnam, she applied atO.U. for their Physician Assis-tant school, tested, passed andfilled out an application that waspromptly torn up by the Chair-man of the P.A. committee.
“He told me, ‘Scarlett, if youcan’t be a doctor, don’t be any-thing because you can’t takeorders.’ ”
Finally, in 1992, at age 44,pregnant with her fifth child, sheapplied and was accepted byO.S.U Tulsa’s OsteopathicMedical School. She startedclasses three-months from de-livery. Her youngest, a girl wasborn mid-term her first year ofmedical school, and graduatedfrom high school in Vinita in2010.
Asked how, with children andpregnant she could even attendmuch less graduate from medi-cal school, Custer replied, “I hadreally good parents that helpedme.”
Custer still marvels that shewas even accepted, “You haveto realize all of my pre-requi-sites, and they were the bareminimum, were 20 years old.”
“Medicine is a get-well pro-gram with me, weight loss,bioidentical hormones (hor-mones molecularly identical tohormones found in the humanbody), I believe if what you aredoing is making youbetter…keep doing it.”
Dr. Custer will be practicingfamily and internal medicine andis presently seeing patients at theclinic and doing duty as an E.R.Physician.
Oklahoma City– James E.Finch, Special Agent in Chargeof the Federal Bureau of Investi-gation in Oklahoma announcesthe conviction of William CharlesAllen, 31, of Florida for the rob-beries of First State Bank in BoiseCity, Oklahoma and First Fidel-ity Bank in Noble, Oklahoma.Allen pled guilty to these robber-ies and the robbery of CapitalBank in Ringgold, Georgia.Allen’s plea of guilty was enteredin the Northern District of Geor-gia on November 23, 2010.
During the change of plea,Allen admitted in open court torobbing both First State Bank andFirst Fidelity Bank in Oklahoma.In addition, Allen admitted to rob-bing Capital Bank in Ringgold,Georgia on March 26, 2010.Allen is scheduled to be sentencedon all the robberies in Georgia onFebruary 10, 2011.
Allen entered the First StateBank of Boise City on Friday,Feb. 26, 2010, and threatened toset off an explosive device at oneof the Boise City Schools if he
WILLIAM CHARLES ALLEN
Allen Pleas toThree Robberies
By C.F. DavidBob Stalcup, the husband of
Dr. Scarlett Custer has taken thereigns of Information Technol-ogy, (IT), at Cimarron Memo-rial Hospital.
Bob grew up in ConwaySprings, Kan., southwest ofWichita, Kan. It is a small cityof just over a thousand whichplaced second in state this yearin football.
Bob, as he prefers to becalled has worked in IT for suchcompanies as Wal-Mart,Boeing, Electronic Data Sys-tems and Oracle.
However, first he was a rockand roll musician and singer. Hewas instrumental, (so to speak),in forming two bands in the1960s the first was the Sebringsand when that band folded, theGas Company. The band(s)played the Beatles, Stones andChuck Berry and WilsonPickett. Bob played rhythm andBass guitars, tambourine andtrumpet. Bob and his bands didroad tours and once played forthe party in Little Rock, Ark.Celebrating the 1964 NationalFootball Champion ArkansasRazorbacks. “We made a lot ofmoney on that gig,” he remem-bered.
(One band member went toNashville and wrote a string ofhits recorded for the “Smokeyand the Bandit “ movie franchiseas well as one or two for JohnDenver.)
But, by 1965, Stalcup saw thechange coming in Rock-N-Rollmusic.
“People were getting moreand more into drugs. It wasn’twhat I wanted, and I saw I wasgoing nowhere.”
So Bob called his dad and hegot him connections with BoeingAircraft in Wichita.
“That’s where I started learn-ing about computers as a pro-gramming trainee,” Bob remem-bered.
By 1969, Bob said Boeingwas on the way down and thou-sands had been laid off.
“I hadn’t been laid off yet, butI saw the handwriting. I wentto work in Dallas for ElectronicData Systems…Ross Perot’scompany. There I got to helpdesign the Medicare system anda system for the National BlueCross and Blue Shield. I trav-eled the world with them, install-ing hardware and software.”
By this time Bob was mar-
Robert Stalcup has come to Cimarron Memorial Hospi-tal as its Director of Information Technology. He is mar-ried to Dr. Scarlett Custer.
Cimarron Memorial Has Quali-fied IT Director in Bob Stalcup
ried and the parents of his nowlate first wife were in poorhealth. They needed to becloser so he quit EDS and wentto work for American Airlinesin Tulsa.
By 1976 Bob decided that hisdecision in the 60s to give upcollege for music was a mistakeso he returned to school, and gothis degree.
“I quizzed out of 18 hourswith an A, and then completed15 more with straight A’s. Thatlooked good on a resume,” hegrinned.
In 1977 Bob went to workfor Wal-Mart, “I wrote theirwarehouse system and builttheir inventory system. Then Iwent back to work for Boeing.If I’d stayed, (at Wal-Mart), until1980…well my friends thatstayed, they’re all millionairesnow,” Bob shrugged.
Bob stayed with Boeing forsix years and then went back toWal-Mart when they needed hisspecialty of assembly lan-guages.
“I made it possible for anyWal-Mart entity to talk to an-other, headquarters, store tostore, Wal-Mart to Sam’s.”
While at Wal-Mart Bobmoved to the management sup-port group.
“I was there for seven years,70 to 80 hours a week,” hefrowned.
Finally having enough hewent back to Oracle in St.Louis, Mo.; from there to a util-ity company in the midst of amerger in Tulsa, where he as theIT architect of the two mergingcompanies blended their soft-ware and hardware.
Then he started a consultingfirm that worked with compa-nies like the Bank of Oklahomaand Penn Power and Light.
“I was in Montana fromDecember to March consulting.That’s not a good time to be inMontana,” Bob observed.
Then he came back to Okla-homa and worked with LimitedBrands, (Victoria’s Secret), be-fore helping Dr. Custer estab-lish a clinic in Vinita.
Asked with all of his experi-ence where he thought the com-puter system at Cimarron Me-morial was, he replied, “It’s run-ning out of date, we need a newserver, but the money isn’t thereyet. I am making newer soft-ware be compatible so it can runon newer systems.”
By C.F. DavidThe City Council of Boise
City made quick work of the toppart of their agenda and movedquickly to the #6 item, a requestfor a curfew.
Once they got there, theymade quick work of the requestas well.
City Manager Rod Averytold the council that he had in-cluded ordinances from acouple of cities, but that theyseemed to be fairly similar.
Councilman Ron Carey setthe tone by speaking first, say-
Council Turns ThumbsDown on City Curfew
ing he hated to punish the 90percent of the good kids for thebad behavior of 10 percent.
He added that he thought thatit would throw more responsi-bility on the city police depart-ment, a department that hethought had plenty to do.
Interim Councilman CraigSanders was next.
“I’m against it also. This is aparental responsibility. It comesback to, parents, what are youdoing? It’s not the city’s job tobecome a nanny.”
Carey jumped back in, “Weare not going to stop that 10 per-
cent. They’ll hide.”Councilman Elton Soell
spoke up, “I went to the highschool we have 71 students 9-12. We’ll be punishing them allfor about five kids.”
“They won’t have a curfewwhen they go to college,” Careyadded.
Mayor Leroy Randolph thenput the ball in the court of thoseasking for the curfew, a groupsolely represented by BaptistMinister Ordean Nelson .
“A curfew is a tool. You areright, we have good kids, and Ilove the kids. But if a curfewisn’t the answer, then what is?”
“What bothers me,” Nelsoncontinued, “is this attitude of kidswill be kids.”
“There are kids here with nodirection.”
“I have heard one estimatethat 78 percent of the kids inCimarron County are drinkingpretty much every day. That’sagainst the law, “ Nelson saidquietly.
“Help us try to figure out howto help these kids. They willhave arrest records, some ofthem may be dying,” he pleaded.
“If I knew who was sellingthem liquor I’d turn them in rightnow.”
“I plan to attend every citycouncil meeting from now on,”Nelson concluded.
“I believe leadership is themost important thing, Randolphsaid. “The older kids need tostep forward. If it’s cool to cometo school and brag about howmuch you drank, then that lead-ership needs to change,” he con-tinued. “But if we push them outinto the county…”
Nelson then told the council“If kids are drinking every dayof the week, then it’s become aproblem. We aren’t differentthan large communities, we havethe same problems, we are justsmaller. I think it will take a com-munity effort to stop it,” headded.
The council then took a mo-tion and vote on the curfew,Carey made the motion that noaction be taken, Sanders sec-onded and the vote was unani-mous.
The council then adjournedand the Public Works opened.The council quickly movedthrough the much shorteragenda and adjourned.
was not given money.When he left, he left behind a
device in the bank that was laterfound to not be explosive.
All the schools in the city wereevacuated as a precaution, but no
device was ever found in any ofthe buildings.
Allen seemed to have eludedthe police until caught in Geor-gia after pulling a similar robbery.
