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Volume 112 No. 52 75 Cents Thursday April 1, 2010P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail bcnews@ptsi.net

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by C.F. Davidphotos by Mike Barnes

Since about November, sincethe snow and ice began to hangaround, Mike Barnes of theBoise City Body Shop has hauledin about eight trucks disabled byaccidents caused by snow andor icy conditions.

However, in the last threedays, half that many trucks havebeen disabled by the “bumps” onDaniels Curve, south of BoiseCity on Highway 287, and as ofTuesday evening the eighth truckin just a few weeks had beentowed from the construction siteand it too had ruined its oil pan.

Barnes said that usually whenthe trucks, carrying 100 thousandpounds or so of freight, or in onecase, live animals, hit the bump,which is about three inches high,there is no more than a bone-jar-ring ride.

In the past three days though,extensive damage has been doneto several trucks.

When an ill-fated truck passesover the bump, it sometimes shat-ters the heavy plastic bowl hold-ing the air bags supporting thesuspension. This can mean thatthe truck just loses part of its sus-pension, but further damage ispossible and has been occurring.Replacing the suspension bagsand cup, cost about $400 each.

Oil pans are an estimated$1,200 each plus labor and the oilto fill them is 10 gallons at $14 agallon.

Then add on this, the idle timefor the truck and driver and thedelay in the delivery of freight.

When the bags ruptured onone truck, the frame collapsedonto the tires, shredding four tires.Jimmy Meister, of Boise City’sJ&K Tires said that a used trucktire will cost about $175 beforetaxes, and a new tire will run

Daniel’s “Bump” GivesTruckers’ Wallets a Dent

A yard stick illustrates the elevation on the bump southof Boise City in the construction zone. The bump hasbecome a problem, especially for northbound truckersbringing about damages and expensive repairs. Beloware truck parts gathered in a circle of 50 feet.

about $400 before taxes, for apotential cost of $700 to $1,600,without the service fee.

Other damage done; a tailgate jarred off a pickup truckand run over by a semi, rippedout brake lines, bringing thetruck to a sudden stop…in thetraffic lane. Another truck run-ning over a piece of junk metalaccomplished the same out-come. A third truck, upon hit-ting the bump lost the suspen-sion bags, and the frame col-lapsed, driving the axle throughthe oil pan on the diesel engine,the roadway was bathed in oil.

The trucks that aren’t re-paired on the roadside or towedto Barnes’ shop, J&K orChuck’s GMC have to betowed to destinations such asAmarillo, at a cost of about$700 just for the tow, not count-ing what ever repairs need tobe made.

To make matters worse atDaniel’s Curve are the dropoffs on either side of the pave-ment, about eight inches on theEast and about two feet on thewest.

Barnes said that complaintsfrom Highway Patrol Troopers,a local ODOT supervisor, andthe truckers in addition toBarnes, seem to have fallen ondeaf ears.

Meanwhile, insuranceclaims continue to stack up, twooil pans, $2,400, 20 gallons ofoil, $280, at least four tires, $700to $1,600, adds to an estimated$3,380 to $4,280, then add theprice of brake line replace-ments, towing, labor, down timefor driver and trucks, freightdelays, and truck replacements,and the figure is quickly into thefive figure range and climbingsteadily toward six figures, with-out the inevitable lawsuit.

by C.F. DavidJames Parker, of Maricopa

County, Ariz., and Roy Young,of Cimarron County, have fileda lawsuit against CimarronCounty Sheriff Keith Borth, theCommissioners of the Okla-homa Land Office and LandCommission Officer, RandySchreiner, of Texas County.

The lawsuit is in answer toan impending sheriff’s sale forproperty taken in January, aspart of a $564 thousand dollarCLO judgment against the Ci-marron River Ranch northeastof Kenton.

At that time, Teri Watkins,communications director of theLand Office told The BoiseCity News that the commis-sioners of the land officeplanned to take back landleased to the Cimarron RiverRanch as well as 500 acres ofdeeded land, two homes andthe “Wild West Building” at thebase of Black Mesa, plus vari-ous equipment and an irrigationsystem.

From the fall of 2005 whenthe initial land was leased,James Parker has stated thathis son Samuel owned the Ci-marron River Ranch and thathe [James] was only an advi-sor.

In the second lawsuit, which

Parker, Young, Turn Tables On Sheriff,Okla. Land Commissioners, Sue for :Consititional violations, Trespass, Property, Damages

Parker brings against the land of-fice, Borth and Schreiner, Parkerand Young contend that they havebeen harmed by the seizure ofproperty and also that some of theproperty has been damaged.

Contacted by The Boise CityNews, (by e-mail), attorney SheilaStinson, of Oklahoma City, an-swered the question of damagedproperty with: “The plaintiffsknow that at least one piece ofpersonal property was brokenwhile in the Sheriff’s custody. They do not know the extentof the damage to any otheritems because Plaintiffs havenot inspected all of the prop-erty since it was seized.”

Parker and Young also contendthat the defendants had violatedtheir [Parker and Young’s] FourthAmendment rights, (illegal searchand seizure).

Again asked how if the defen-dants had a court order the FourthAmendment was violated, Stinsonreplied that: “The Execution al-lowed for the levy of CimarronRiver Ranch’s property, notany other third-party. AsJames Parker and Roy Youngwere not parties to the suit, theWrit of Execution did not ap-ply to their property.”

The suit then accuses the de-fendants of trespass, since theproperty seized didn’t belong to the

Cimarron River Ranch. TheBoise City News then askedStinson: “If the propertydidn’t belong to CimarronRiver Ranch to whom did itbelong? James Parker hassaid all along that he didn’town the ranch but Samueldid. Is then Parker claim-ing that the property was hisand not the ranch’s? Whois the proper debtor? Sam?And where has he been inall of this? Why isn’t hehere defending the ranch ifit is/was his?”

To which she replied: “Thepersonal property belongedto James Parker and RoyYoung as attached on theitemized list to the Petition. James Parker does notown CRR, he owned per-sonal property in the resi-dence owned by CRR. Thejudgment debtor in the firstsuit is Cimarron RiverRanch. CRR has filed aMotion to Halt the Sheriff’sSale in the first suit whichis set for hearing on March31 in Oklahoma County. Samuel Parker is a memberof CRR, LLC.”

(This story will continue todevelop as both suits maketheir way through the Okla-homa County District Court.)

By C.F. DavidChad Douglas Marcum and

Michael Justin Ray Truitt, pleadedguilty on March 24 to burglary andconcealment charges.

The two admitted to having bro-ken into four different businessesin Boise City and to also havingconcealed property taken fromthose buildings.

By pleading, Marcum andTruitt, both 20 years of age wentinto the youth offender program

Marcum, Truitt, Take Pleaand will be accepted into a “BillJohnston” Program similar toa boot camp. The two willagain appear before the Dis-trict Court upon completion ofthe course, sometime in Octo-ber. Depending upon their be-havior in program, the judge willmake a decision on further le-gal action at that time.

A juvenile, purported to bewith Marcum and Truitt duringthe burglaries remains at large.

Kanon White of the BoiseCity High School 2010 Gradu-ating Class has been awardedthe Henry Barnes MemorialScholarship.

This Scholarship, created inhonor of the late Henry Barnes

KANON WHITE

KANON WHITEAWARDED THEHENRY BARNES

MEMORIALSCHOLARSHIP who was a long-time resident of

Boise City, provides $10,000.00annually for four years of under-graduate study toward aBachelor’s degree at any accred-ited college or university in theUnited States.

The Scholarship Selection Com-mittee would like to express ap-

preciation to all of the graduat-ing Seniors that took the timeand effort to apply for thisScholarship. Based upon thequality of the applications thatwere received, CimarronCounty residents should bevery proud of their 2010 Gradu-ating Seniors.

ATTENTION!!!!Since October we havereceived 6.53 inches ofmoisture either in rain orsnow. I read a recent sta-tistic that the U.S. is now97 percent drought free,the quickest drought re-covery on record

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by C.F. DavidElectronic Technology, in the

latter 20th and early 21st Cen-tury has moved quickly.

In a short eight months wewill be seeing the end of thefirst decade of the 21st century.

We have, in this decade,seen the towers fall, two wars,the election of our first blackpresident and the beginning ofthe worst financial crisis in over70 years.

In the mean-time largemetro dailies have been facedwith bankruptcy, closed, orchanged the way they do busi-ness.

The Boise City News hasestablished both a web site anda blog site.

However, technology ismoving too fast, a printed newspaper will soon be a thing ofthe past, and we too must moveon to the future of news report-ing.

THE BOISE CITY NEWS MUST SOON MOVE TO 21ST CENTURYBeginning in the 21st century’s

second decade, The Boise CityNews will be delivered exclusivelyon Twitter. In this way our read-ers, busy with their own lives, willbe able to read the news of Cima-rron County at their own speed andleisure.

What is Twitter you might ask?It is basically a social networkingand microblogging service deliv-ering tweets in bursts of 140 char-acters.

Twitter, is the brain child of JackDorsey and was dreamed up dur-ing a 2006 brainstorming sessionat Odeo, a San Franciscopodcasting company. It has, in2010 experienced a 1,500 percentgrowth, and it has over 70,000 reg-istered applications. In the firstquarter of 2010, two billion tweetswere posted, and over $57 millionhas been raised from venture capi-talists.

This will, for the Boise CityNews, cut much of our overhead;

we will be able to cut the costof paper, both used in the build-ing and in newsprint. We won’thave to spend postage, sinceour subscribers will be receiv-ing the news over either/ortheir cell phones or computers.

However, this comes at aprice, since Twitter displays noadvertisements. But, advertis-ers often target Twitter usersby observing their tweet his-tory.

Twitter was used for pub-licity during the 2008 electionsby President Obama and hiscampaign.

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In any case, come alongwith the Boise City News aswe go further into the informa-tion age and the 21st century.And by the way….AprilFools!!!

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Editorial Short-In spite of the arrest of two

individuals for four burglarieswithin the city limits, the prob-lems haven’t ceased.

There have been reports ofcontinuing burglaries at the BoiseCity Co-Op, and other rural lo-cations with property and moneyhaving been taken. Also, NoMan’s Land Beef Jerky was bro-ken into over the weekend.

As the arrests in the previousburglaries have made plain, teen-

agers aren’t all the problem.However, teens could eas-

ily be or become the problem.As I have written in the pastI have been opposed to a cur-few, but incidents havechanged my mind. Thebreak-ins have becomebolder, citizens are sleeping intheir businesses; someone isgoing to get hurt. Tell youcouncilman, tell your commis-sioner, (the county mighthave to take action if the citywon’t) if you favor a curfew.

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