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Vol. 109 No. 52 – 12 Pages, 1 Section Cherokee, (Alfalfa County) Oklahoma Thursday, November 24, 2011 – 50¢

CHEROKEEMESSENGER & REPUBLICAN

Home of the Great Salt Plains & the Selenite Hourglass Crystal

, Inside today...Wheat Price ............................. 3Opinion Page .......................... 4Lifestyles ................................. 5Funerals................................... 6Sports ...................................... 7Legals .......................... 9, 10, 11Classifieds............................. 11

Page7...Turnovers costly to T’lake; Temple ousts Tigers fromthe playoffs.

Page2...Cherokee FFA Slave Auctionbrings in ‘tickunder $16,000’to program.

Page8...Outback Riders make annual delivery of toys to DHS officein Cherokee.

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11 file for 3 Jet Town Board seatsBy STEVE BOOHERMessenger & Republican Staff

JET – Eleven candidates have filed for the three unex-pired open seats on the Jet Town Board.

The seats were left vacant when three board members – Hershel Kiser, David Pitt and Carolyn Crossette – resigned after conflict with Mayor Jim Blackledge and board member Lindeen Evans.

One position on the board is available for an unexpired term

ending in 2013. Persons filing for this position include Linda Kiser, Matt Morris, Harvina Nina Britain and Jim Sands.

Two positions are available for unexpired terms ending in 2015. Persons filing for these positions include Carolyn Cros-sette, Stephanie Carson, Pame-la Sands, Fae Strait, Kenneth Lunak, Paul Blackledge and Wanda Gray.

Only voters registered inside the geographical boundaries of Jet are eligible to vote at the Jet

Community Building on Tues-day, Feb. 14.

Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, is the last day to apply for voter regis-tration in order to be eligible to vote in the special election, said Alfalfa County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein.

She said persons who are United States citizens, resi-dents of Oklahoma and at least 18 years old may apply to be-come registered voters.

Persons who have never been registered to vote before or who

are not currently registered in the county of their residence, and persons who are registered but who need to change their registration information, may apply by filling out and mailing an Oklahoma Voter Registra-tion Application form in time for it to be postmarked no later than midnight Friday, Jan. 20.

Stein said applications post-marked after that time still will be accepted and processed, but the applications will not be ap-

OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Mary Fallin has set a special election date for eligible vot-ers in Senate District 20 to complete the unexpired term of Sen. David Myers, R-Ponca City.

Myers died Nov. 11 as the

result of complications of pneumonia.

The filing period will be from Monday, Dec. 5, through Wednesday, Dec. 7. The pri-mary election will be held Feb. 14, 2012, with the gener-al election scheduled for April

3, 2012.In the event a primary elec-

tion is not necessary, the gen-eral election will be held Feb. 14, 2012.

Myers’ term would have ended in 2014.

Senate District 20 includes

all of Alfalfa and Grant coun-ties, along with portions of Garfield, Kay and Noble coun-ties. Redistricting approved during the last legislative session would have removed Myers from District 20, effec-tive 2013.

Time to light up homesfor Christimas holiday Cherokee’s Residential Christmas Lighting Contest, sponsored by Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, offers prize money totaling $275, with first place worth $100, $75 for second, $50 for third, and $25 for fourth and fifth. Those desiring a chance to win one of the five cash prizes in the contest should register at the Cherokee Messenger & Republican, 216 South Grand, or by calling the newspaper at 596-3344. Deadline for entering the contest is noon Friday, Dec. 16. Contest judges will tour the participating homes that eve-ning to select winners. Homeowners are asked to leave their lights on that evening, as well as Saturday evening, so that the Messenger & Republican can photograph the winners. Those photos will appear in the Thursday, Dec. 22, issue of the newspaper.

ATTACKING SOONER State Canine Trainer Ryan Fuxa is the City of Cherokee’s canine enforcement officer Qando. Supervising Tuesday at Chief Stadium is Police Chief Chris Ferrell, who conducted the demonstration for Cherokee Elementary stu-dents. Officers from Major County and the Town of Lamont also brought their drug enforcement dogs to the event. Qando was scheduled to make an appearance Monday in front of Cherokee City Council members, who have been asking for an exclusive demonstration for several months.

Jan. 20 last day to register for Feb. 14 special election

Qando earns his keep

Fallin sets filing date for Dist. 20 Senate seat

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See ELECTION Page 3

By STEVE BOOHERMessenger & Republican Staff

JET – Jet Mayor Jim Blackledge said he wanted the "rest of the story" told and invited the Messenger & Re-publican, along with the Enid News & Ea-gle, to what amounted to a press conference Monday afternoon at his home in Jet.

Also attending were Jet Town Board Attorney Bill Shaw of Enid, former Town Administra-tor Jaquetta Jenkins, Jenkins' daughter-in-law and former Town Clerk Donna Keller, and Matt Morris and his wife, Judy.

Matt Morris is one of 11 Jet citizens who have filed for the three open seats on the Jet Town Board.

Blackledge and others at the meeting said their version of the controversy that grips the town and led to the resignation of three town board members has not been told.

"This probably started back when the Christian Church donated their building to us (about five years ago) so that we could turn it into a museum," explained the mayor. "My oppo-nents felt like the people should have voted on (whether or not to accept) it."

Blackledge said the town board's decision to accept the building was valid, but it an-gered some in the community.

District Attorney Hollis Thorp and Assistant DA West-line Ritter have attended sev-eral town board meetings in the past at the request of disgrun-tled citizens, said Blackledge, and the DA advised board mem-bers to give visitors to the meet-

Blackledge, supporters hold pressconference to tell ‘rest of the story’

“...some folks won’t listen to a thing. It’s some of those folks who got us into this situation.”

Jet Town BoardAttorney Bill Shaw

ings a "voice."Blackledge said meetings be-

gan lasting longer and longer "until we had to start shutting them down" by allowing visitors a time limit to speak on issues.

"We voted for the council to take care of our town," said Judy Morris, an apparent Blackledge supporter.

"NEWCOMERS TO BLAME,"SAYS JET ATTORNEY

Shaw said "newcomers" to the community were to blame for much of the controversy.

"Part of the problem," he

said, "is that some of these people are relatively new to town. Some listen, but some won't lis-ten to a thing. It's some of those folks who got us into this situation.

"And personal motives from outside organiza-tions have fueled this a little bit.

"We need to elect people (at the Feb. 14 special election) who will make decisions that are best for the community."

The discussion turned to an-other Jet citizen and a relative of the mayor, Paul Blackledge, who Shaw considers one of the newcomers.

Paul Blackledge has repeat-edly requested that the mu-nicipal government send him

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Enter the Cherokee Residential Lighting Contestsponsored by Alfalfa Electric Cooperative. Just call 596-3344 or 596-

3575, ext 122 by Noon Friday, Dec. 16, and leave your nameand address.

$275 in Prizes(Prizes will be awarded in Cherokee Cash Scrip)

First Place .............................................$100.00Second Place ..........................................$75.00Third Place ..............................................$50.00Fourth Place ............................................$25.00Fifth Place ...............................................$25.00

Be sure to leave your lights on!Judges will tour the participating homes the evening of Friday, Dec. 16, to select winners. Be sure to leave your holiday lights on Friday, Dec. 16, as well as Sat-urday, Dec. 17, so that the Cherokee Messenger & Republican can photograph winners for its Thursday, Dec. 22, edition.

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Pecans, Walnuts, Almonds, Cranberries and Apricots

for sale atCherokee City County LibrarySmith Drug Store Eldora’s Beauty ShopProceeds fund projectsof Cherokee Friends of the Library

HELP WANTEDAlfalfa County Fairgrounds Manager

Applications and job description packetsavailable at the Alfalfa County Exhibit Buildingfrom 8 a.m. until noon Monday through Friday.Applications close December 13, 2011 at noon.

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TAKING THE HIGHEST bidder for Cherokee FFA Vice President Jessica Unruh is local auctioneer John Patton. FFA members were sold Nov. 3 during the annual fund-raiser Calf Fry and Slave Auction in the Cherokee High School cafeteria. Helping with the auction was Phil Wilber (right of Unruh) and also up for sale were Grant DeWitt (behind Wilber), Carli Richmond, Macy Starks, Nicole Unruh and Kristin Shepard.

Sale of students yields ‘a tick under $16K’By KORINA DOVEMessenger & Republican Staff

Parents often threaten to sell their children, but Cher-okee FFA Chapter Advisor Jeremy Johns actually does it.

Johns put 39 students on the auction block Nov. 3 dur-ing the annual Calf Fry and Slave Auction in the Cherokee High School cafeteria. Stu-dents clad in blue and gold jackets brought in “just a tick under $16,000,” according to Johns.

Chapter members who were sold will spend eight hours do-ing chores for their new “own-ers” on behalf of the FFA pro-

gram. Gene DeWitt was the highest bidder, paying $1,000 to ensure he gets an honest day’s work from his grandson, junior Grant DeWitt, who also serves as an officer in the local chapter.

Monies generated during the annual dinner and auc-tion go toward competitions, educational conventions and classrooms materials.

“We use that money to help get kids to contests and do some upgrades to the ex-isting technology … in the shop and in the classroom,” Johns said. “We use it to go to national convention and state convention and to be

able to provide students the opportunity to go to different functions and different com-petitions.”

Johns said this year’s auc-tion and dinner was a sell-out.

“We were geared up to seat 156, and all the seats were full,” he said. “I’d guess (we fed) around 175.”

The next trip planned for the chapter is a leadership conference in Tulsa.

“Those are camps to en-hance team building skills, networking and setting per-sonal goals,” Johns said.

Seventeen members will attend the event.

GSP Health Clinic will receive share of federally-funded treasure trove

Five hundred community health centers in 44 states – in-cluding the Great Salt Plains Health Center (GSPHC) in Cherokee – will receive approx-imately $42 million over three years to improve the coordina-tion and quality of care they deliver to people with Medicare and other patients, the U.S. De-partment of Health and Human Services announced this week.

“Health centers are integral parts of our communities,” said Centers for Medicare & Med-icaid Services (CMS) Admin-istrator Donald M. Berwick, M.D. “This initiative will give participating health centers the help they need to improve care for many people with Medicare who rely on them as their main source of care.”

Under this Advanced Prima-ry Care Practice demonstration, created by the Affordable Care Act, Medicare will pay commu-nity health centers based on the quality of care they deliver.

GSPHC Executive Direc-tor Tim Starkey said the local health center’s share of the $42 million will be determined by the number of Medicare pa-tients treated at the facility.

“We’ll receive $6 per Medicare patient we treat,” he explained, “and as of the year that ended December 2010, we had treated about 200 Medicare patients.”

He said the annual payments will increase from year to year over the three-year period if the health center sees more Medi-care patients.

Because GSPHC expected the federal government to man-date many of the changes asso-ciated with the announced “im-proved care initiative,” Starkey said the local health center ap-plied for financial assistance to implement it.

The improved payment sys-tem will reward clinics for such things as helping patients man-age chronic conditions like dia-betes or high blood pressure.

In addition, health centers will use this funding to expand their hours, make same day appointments and accommo-date patients with urgent care needs.

“The goal of this demonstra-

tion is to help patients get the care they need in a primary care setting rather than in an emergency department,” said Dr. Berwick. “When patients are able to use a health center as their primary source of care, it helps primary care doctors, nurses and specialists coordi-nate their care. Health centers will also use health care dollars more wisely as patients receive the right tests, right medica-tions and right treatments in the right setting.”

The demonstration will be conducted from Nov. 1, 2011, through Oct. 31, 2014. Partici-pating health centers will be

paid a monthly fee for each eli-gible person with Medicare that receives primary care services.

To study the process and challenges involved in trans-forming community health cen-ters into advanced primary care practices, the Innovation Cen-ter will conduct an independent evaluation of the demonstra-tion. The evaluation will assess the project’s impact on hospital admission rates, emergency de-partment visits rates, access, quality and cost of care pro-vided to Medicare beneficiaries. The evaluation will also assess whether the demonstration was cost effective.

OKLAHOMA INSURANCE Commissioner John Doak speaks at a roundtable public forum Tuesday at Great Salt Plains Health Center in Cherokee. Alfalfa County was the 76th county for Doak to visit on his campaign to visit all 77 counties in Oklahoma. Six individuals attended Tuesday’s meeting to ask Doak about various insurance issues.

Crescent Services clears past due account with countyBy KORINA DOVEMessenger & Republican Staff

Alfalfa County Commission-ers considered bid proposals from three companies Monday for emergency equipment on a 2012 Tahoe recently bought for the sheriff ’s office.

Bids arrived from Joe Watts of Vinita for $5,932; Fleet Dis-tributors Express from Tulsa for $6,546.10; and John Vance Chevrolet of Perry for $5,987.

Deputy Dennis Frisk said the John Vance Chevrolet bid in-cludes a double-gun lock, which normally runs about $600. Oth-er bids did not include that fea-ture. Plus, Frisk said, the sher-iff ’s department is purchasing the vehicle from John Vance, and equipment could be in-stalled before the Tahoe arrives at the sheriff ’s department.

Frisk recommended commis-sioners Doug Murrow, Chad Roach and Toby Walker approve the bid from Vance. The bid was approved unanimously.

Also approved were 47 road crossing permits, including sev-eral from Crescent Services, which the county denied last week because of a past due ac-count balance. Approved were permits for Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, Caprock Service, Bloom Electric, Chesapeake Energy, Crescent Services, Sem-Gas, Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, SandRidge and Rodco. Permits are available for inspection during normal court-

house business hours in the county commissioners’ office.

Permits signed marked a re-cord number for the county.

Commissioners approved a mineral lease with Eagle Ener-gy Production for $650 an acre, 3/16 royalty fee, for three years in District 3. Walker did not know how much land was in-volved in the lease. Commission-ers also approved a proposal for the county clerk to seek bids on a one-ton pickup for District 3.

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The county Election Board responds in writing to every per-son who submits an application for voter registration, explained Stein. The response is either a voter identification card listing the new voter’s precinct num-ber and polling place location, or a letter that explains the reason or reasons the applica-tion for voter registration was not approved.

Stein said any person who has submitted a voter registra-tion application and who has not received a response within 30 days should contact the Election Board office on the sec-ond floor of the Alfalfa County Courthouse in Cherokee.

Voter registration applica-tion forms are available at the Election Board office and at most post offices, tag agencies and public libraries in the coun-ty. She said applications also

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Continued from Page 1meeting agendas and minutes electronically. A majority of board members have steadfast-ly refused to do so.

Paul Blackledge is another of the 11 candidates seeking elec-tion to the board in February.

At one time, said Shaw, the board agreed to let Paul Black-ledge operate a web site con-taining information from the town.

"He used the web site to present his viewpoints rather than promote the town," Shaw said. "With a history like that, we're not making a special deal for him.

"We're in compliance with the state's Open Meeting and Open Records Acts and saw no need (to grant Blackledge's re-quest)."

NOTHING POSITIVE FROMPAUL BLACKLEDGE?

Mayor Blackledge was equal-ly critical of his relative.

"I can't think of one thing he's (Paul) done positive for the community," said Blackledge. "I want Jet to move forward. My family grew up here and we've (Jet) come a long way."

Jenkins, whose contract as town administrator was not re-newed several months ago by a 3-2 vote, said Monday's meeting was necessary because "People from the towns around us want to know the truth."

are available on the Internet at www.elections.ok.gov.

STORYShe said she had already

decided not to serve Jet before Town Board members Carolyn Crossette, Hershel Kiser and David Pitt voted against her renewal. Mayor Blackledge and board member Lindeen Evans voted for a renewal.

Contrary to earlier reports, Donna Keller said she did not resign as town clerk because her mother-in-law's contract was not renewed.

"COULDN'T TAKE CROSSETTE ANOTHER SECOND"

"Carolyn Crossette bad-gered me at every meeting and I proved her wrong every time. I couldn't take her another sec-ond," said Keller. "I didn't quit because Jaquetta's contract was not renewed. She's my mother-in-law. I could have got-ten advice from her at any time without her being employed by the town."

Several times Blackledge was asked why he removed the town's business computer from city hall and took it to the Jet Motel, where Keller works.

The DA, after his investiga-tor looked into the computer's removal, said several weeks ago he found "nothing criminal" in taking the computer home to work on it.

MAYOR DEFENDSCOMPUTER REMOVAL

Blackledge said his decision to remove the computer was jus-tified because of billing errors

discovered by Keller's husband, Mike, who is the town's water and sewer superintendent.

When Ms. Keller resigned her post, she was replaced by Kelli Hopkins. Crossette, Kiser and Pitt made that hire.

"We found checks in the trash can," said Blackledge, who terminated Hopkins before removing the computer. "It was clear that she (Hopkins) didn't understand our (billing) proce-dures."

Blackledge said he contacted Shaw for legal advice before re-moving the computer and was told to "do what you need to do to take care of the town's busi-ness."

"I decided enough was enough," said the mayor. "Things were in disarray and we were losing revenue."

The computer was taken to the Jet Motel, where Keller, with the help of an Enid soft-ware designer made entries

into the device. Keller was not a town employee at the time.

SPECIAL AUDIT UNDER WAY Shaw said Blackledge and

Evans employed William Gauer of Watonga in October to con-duct an audit of the town's re-cords during the three months someone other than Keller made entries in the computer.

"We felt we needed the spe-cial audit to get the (utility) bill-ing back on track," explained Blackledge.

Shaw was questioned about the authority of only two mem-bers of the board (Blackledge and Evans) to hire an auditor.

After Crossette, Kiser and Pitt left the board, Shaw said he discovered state statutes that allow a minority of members to conduct routine business un-til an election could be held to form at least a three-member majority.

"You can do whatever's nec-essary," answered Shaw.

Keller, who has been re-employed by Blackledge as a billing clerk for the town, said the "books are probably in good shape now."

Gauer will be paid $2,000 to conduct the audit, which will cover about a three-month pe-riod. Keller said she has been told the audit should be com-pleted soon.

Blackledge was asked if, fol-lowing the Feb. 14 election, board members will be able to function if they disagree on is-sues.

"However the election comes out, we would need to be able to rationally talk about our problems," he answered. "They (Crossette, Kiser and Pitt) wouldn't say anything at board meetings."

Asked again if he felt he would be able to work with op-ponents, if they were elected, Blackledge said, "It's the peo-ples' town."

Cherokee’s Family and Con-sumer Science program, taught by Shelly Davis, received $4,000 in funding from the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.

Funds were provided to im-prove technology in the foods lab at Cherokee Public Schools. The technology grant purchased one 30-inch stainless steel electric range with speed cooking tech-nology and double ovens and one 30-inch stainless steel gas range with double ovens, along with two 30-inch range hoods.

This technology will greatly upgrade the Family and Con-sumer Science program at Cherokee Public Schools. The instructor and students will gain knowledge of today’s ap-pliances, and the program will enhance new technical skills.

CHS receivestech grant

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Southgate Addn.

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Chevrolet-Buick

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Hadwiger& Jungman

Attorneys at Law(580) 596-3591

Pizza Hut

105 Loop Dr.

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ACB BankMEMBER FDIC

Cherokee 596-3337

Garber 863-2281

Waukomis

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FarmersExchange Bank419 S. Grand 596-3371Member FDIC

Cherokee

Family Clinic

221 S. Grand

596-3516

AlfalfaElectricCooperative121 E. Main596-3333

AEC Services121 E. Main596-2638

ElDora’sBeauty Shop

ElDora 596-2618

Debra 596-3449

WilberFertilizer

213 N. Grand

596-3440

FarmersCo-op

Cherokee 596-2439

Carmen 987-2234

Aline 463-2544

SmithDrug Store

121 S. Grand

596-2764

Cole’s Flowers

& Greenhouse

1224 S. Grand

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Dr. Carl W.

Newton, OD PC

Southgate Addition

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Evans Stands

Insurance106 S. Grand

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596-3374

Cherokee

Publishing Co.

216 S. Grand

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Ritter’s Body & Paint Shop220 S. Grand -596-2135

CherokeeStation & Inn1710 S. Grand596-2882

Smok ShakHwy 64 N.

Ingersoll

596-3584

Great Salt PlainsHealth Center

405 S. Okla.596-2800

Jack’s Automotive

Home Hardware

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Scrapbooking 101213 S. Grand596-3030

ALCO1504 S. Grand

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UnitedSouthgateAddition

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Land RunLegacies112 S. Grand596-3640

EncompassFinancial106 S. Grand596-3838

Toni’sExpress Stop105 N. Grand

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Phil’s Leather

209 N. Grand

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Phyllis’Wonder World

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TheCaring Co.217 S. Grand

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By STEVE BOOHER

Pass me the mashed taters,and not the instant kind!

‘Tis the seasonfor us to share

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By N.T. McQUEENWith the presidential race well underway,

candidates are already trading barbs about religion. Mitt Romney is getting hassled for being a Mormon as his opponents posture about their Christianity, while some fringe commentators still rail on about how Presi-dent Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, as if any of that actually mattered.

Don’t get me wrong. I believe a candi-date’s faith is very important and should be one of the criteria people use to decide who gets their vote. I just don’t believe it should matter which faith is in play.

Faith is not just about believing in God or a higher power, but in those select few elected by the people to act on our behalf in the governing of this country, faith is about character.

We must remember, as much as we use the term democracy to describe our system of government, it’s actually a republic. The people don’t make decisions on how they are governed. We elect others to do that for us. In doing so, it is in our best interests to do what we can to ensure that those officeholders are individuals of strong character.

That’s why it’s so easy for the legitimate debate about issues in this country to be derailed by the frequent morality play of scandal. Compromising pictures on Twit-ter, affairs with staffers, arrests for indecent public behavior and a side order of graft and corruption will always make the headlines. However, there is a reason for that, above and beyond the public’s fascination with the pruri-ent and the lurid. That reason is character.

That is where I believe faith comes in. In short, I believe faith signifies trust. For

those individuals seeking public office who profess faith in any higher power, the com-mon conception is that they hold themselves to a higher moral standard, one of honesty, transparency, and veracity.

I believe faith is important for everyone and, as Americans, it is our responsibility to tolerate and accept the varied individual be-lief systems prevalent throughout our culture whether Christian, Hebrew, Hindu, Mus-lim, Agnostic, Mormon or any other. If faith results in a constancy of moral and ethical behavior, then faith should be a key compo-nent of a good candidate’s character.

However, as responsible citizens seek-ing elected office, their faith should be used only as a tool to promote their credibility, and not as a platform to preach condemna-tion. A candidate who sings the song “My God is better than your God” is misusing their professed faith. I use the qualifier “professed” faith, because it has been my experience that those who bellow about the superiority of their chosen faith are charlatans and lack the strength of character valued by the very faith they proclaim they possess.

This can sometimes make candidates wary of discussing their faith, but leaders should not be afraid of their spiritual beliefs. They should embrace them. They will gain more respect as people who hold steadfast to their beliefs than if they abandon their faith or misuse their faith for the sake of the ballot.

(Editor's Note: N.T. McQueen, author of Be-tween Lions and Lambs, grew up attending several churches and comes from a family of preachers. He graduated Cum Laude with a degree in American Literature and is a graduate student in Creative Writing at CSU-Sacramento. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.)

By JOHN CRABTREECenter for Rural Affairs

Amid all the debate in Congress over budget cuts and lightning quick farm bill deliberations, those of us outside Washington and Wall Street must remember the priorities that are crucial to building a better future in our communities. First and foremost, job creation should be the primary focus. And rural development programs that create jobs should be a priority in the fed-eral farm bill being written right now.

Rural development programs that create jobs by investing in small business develop-ment, rural housing, community facilities and other critical infrastructure have not fared well in recent years. Funding for key USDA Rural Development programs and initiatives have already been cut by nearly twenty percent since 2003, long before the current budget cutting push even started.

Moreover, investments in rural develop-ment can be paid for easily. Today, the nation’s largest and wealthiest farms expect that farm and insurance subsidies will continue to role in, no matter how big they get and no matter how much the red ink runs in DC. In fact, if I farmed my entire home state of Iowa, USDA would pay 60 percent of the crop insurance premiums pro-tecting me against falling crop prices and yields on every acre, every year – even when crop prices and federal deficits are at record highs.

We can do better than this. When faced with a choice between creating jobs in rural America and giving unlimited subsidies to the nation’s largest farms, the best choice is obvious.

(Editor's Note: The Center for Rural Affairs was formed by rural Nebraskans concerned about family farms and rural communities. It works to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural communities.)

Beware candidate who claimshis faith better than opponent’s

Rural jobs in America best choiceBetter than another handout to the nation’s largest farms

It’s “Over the river and through the woods” this week to grandma’s house and a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner for many of our readers.

Others, like yours truly, will be making the Thanksgiving feast trek near and far, but maybe not to grandma’s.

Sonya and I will be driving to Edmond, where daughter Shannan has lost her mind and is planning a holiday din-ner with all the trimmings for about 15 people – give or take two or three who haven’t com-mitted yet.

What inspired this column was a Good Housekeeping Research Institute test on mashed potatoes. Not the peel, cook and actually mash type, but the kind you find in the supermarket refrigerator and freezer sections; even the dried flake kind.

I’m pretty sure... no, I’m certain, Shannan won’t be shopping those aisles for her mashed potatoes. (I’ll report back next week if she did, and it won’t be pretty!)

What caught my attention were some of the words used to attract shoppers to these fake spuds.

The winner of the taste test – Idahoan Original Mashed Potatoes – was described as “silky smooth” and having a “fresh potato taste,” even though they’re the dehydrated variety. Judges were particu-larly impressed that the $5.29 box contained 34 servings.

I’m betting you could indeed serve 34 people, because no one would ask for a second helping!

I won’t go through all of the honorable mention brands de-scribed by Good Housekeeping, but here’s just a few brands in case you’re an “instant” potato kind of Thanksgiving chef.

Ore-Ida Steam n’ Mash Cut Red Potatoes ($3.69 for 7 servings), made from “real” potato skins. Yep, that’s what I’m looking for on Turkey Day... “real” spud skins.

Bob Evans Original Mashed Potatoes ($3.49 for 5 servings). The big draw to this refriger-ated brand? It’s “very peppery and herbed” taste. I’ll add my own seasoning, thank you.

Betty Crocker Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes ($1.89 for 6 servings). One taste-tester reported shouted “Hello, but-ter!” when slurping down this “creamy flavored” but “runny” brand. Makes your mouth wa-ter, doesn’t it?

Country Crock Homestyle Mashed Potatoes ($3.84 for 5 servings). Testers said this refrigerated offering had a “lovely cream texture, but the buttery, gravy-like flavor tasted artificial.” Really? Imagine that.

Alexia Mashed Potatoes Yu-kon Gold Potatoes and Sea Salt ($3.69 for 3.5 servings). Testers said this frozen brand was “very salty and almost meat-flavored, with an overly dense texture.” Hungry yet?

Okay, Shannan, read this column before you start the potatoes. If you are planning to serve the “instant” variety, give me the spuds, a knife, a pot and a masher.

I can do this!

Most residents of Cherokee and Alfalfa County have plenty to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. The energy boom has filled the county’s treasury with record-setting sales tax receipts and Chero-kee is reaping its share of the windfall.

That’s not to say that every community within the county’s boundary is enjoying the same good fortune, but when companies like SandRidge and Chesapeake, along with their subsidiaries, flood the county with workers, it’s bound to have an impact on all of us.

To be sure, there are negatives to the oil and gas boom, but the positives far outweigh them.

Perhaps the largest drawback to the boom is the fact that the entire county is suffering from a housing shortage. Bringing hundreds of good oil field wages to the county is wonderful, but the impact would be far greater if quality housing was available to bring the workers’ families as well.

As we’ve mentioned before within the pages of the Messenger & Republican, to achieve the full impact locally of the energy boom will require entrepreneurs to step forward to provide single family housing, or even apartment complexes. From all indications, however, this is not going to be a short-lived boom and there’s still time for those with the resources to invest in not just their future, but the future of the entire county.

And while the area economy may be on the upswing, it’s important for those who have or will benefit from the oil and gas boom to remember to share their good fortune with those less fortunate. We happen to believe – knowing the generos-ity of our friends and neighbors benefitting from the economy – that many of the county’s new oil and gas well owners will share their new-found wealth.

It will come either in the form of generous donations to churches, schools and charities, or hopefully to all of the above. As a resident of Alfalfa County going on 32 years, I’ve seen the fortunate reach out to the less fortunate time and again. It may already be happening as this edito-rial is being penned.

We’ve entered the holiday season – a time of celebration and giving. It’s uplifting to know that many area residents, regardless of their level of gifting, will be sharing their good fortune over the next few months and years.

Steve Booher, Publisher

Cherokee, Okla., Messenger & Republican • Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 • Page 5

Wheatheart MenuMenu is subject to change.Monday, Nov. 28 - Chicken

enchiladas, buttered peas, fi-esta rice, Mexican cornbread, banana pudding.

Tuesday, Nov. 29 - Chuck wagon steak with gravy, black-eyed peas, mashed potatoes, cornmeal roll, fresh fruit.

Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Chef salad with egg, cucumber, rad-ishes, glorified rice, crackers, cinnamon roll.

Thursday, Dec. 1 - Italian meatloaf, macaroni & tomatoes, cole slaw, oatmeal roll, choco-late cake.

For reservation, call 580-596-2792 Cherokee, or 580-852-3248 Helena, by noon the day before.

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• What happened at the last city council meeting?• What’s going on at your child’s school?• What was the score?• Who got a promotion?• Who is getting married?• Who has a new baby?• What award did your neighbor win?• What, Where and When is the next community event?• What’s happening in local churches?

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CHEROKEEHome of the Great Salt Plains & the Selenite Hourglass Crystal

MESSENGER & REPUBLICAN

Police Chief Mike Andrews

See BELLS Page 3

UNSURE Pag

ADMIRING A 1952 Chevrolet pickup truck at Saturday’s 9th Annual Selenite Cruise-

In is Cherokee resident Doug Whittet. Owned by Ron and Mary Doty of Nash, the

entry was judged “Best Truck” at the show.

– See Pages B1 thr

(Editor’s note: The Messen-

ger & Republican recently in-

terviewed newly hired Cherokee

Police Chief Mike Andrews to

fi nd out his goals for Cherokee

and to allow its citizens to know

him a little better).

Q: Where did you grow up?

A: I was born in a suburb of

Chicago and we moved to

Enid right before my fi fth birth-

day.

Q: What was life like grow-

ing up?

A: I was pretty much an only

child. Mom worked as a

nurse and my dad was a rural

mail carrier.

Law enforcement was always

my passion; I always wanted to

be a cop. were you attracted

More than 75 cars and motorcycles vied

for prizes at the 9th Annual Selenite Cruise-In

held Saturday in Cherokee. Although entries

e down from last year, organizer Mary Mc-

the number of spectators was still

tand served over 250

By LESLIE COLLINS

Messenger & Republican Staff

Although federal stimulus

funds have been awarded to

area schools, it’s still a guessing

game on how to spend it.

“We’re not totally sure what

we can use it for because the

(Oklahoma) State Department

(of Education) is not totally

sure yet,” Burlington Super-

intendent Glen Elliott said of

the school’s $20,000 stimulus

award.Burlington schools received

the fi rst half of the stimulus

money for Title I and IDEA B

before July 1 and will receive

aining stimulus at a

d be

Attendance high at 9th Cruise-In

egories, the Mayor’s Choice and the Trooper’s

Choice, among others.

Although tradition has been to host the

car show the fi rst weekend in August, McDon-

ald said the date will change for next year. To

avoid the summer heat and its potential health

perils, the car show will be held the fi rst week-

end in May. those wanting to purchase Cruise-In T-

aid the shirts will be offered

be purchased by

By LESLIE COLLINS

Messenger & Republican Staff

From painting to installing a

geothermal system to repairing

sidewalks, area schools have

been busy preparing for the

start of school.

Classes for Burlington, Cher-

okee, Timberlake and Aline-

Cleo schools start Wednesday,

Aug. 12. For enrollment dates,

check out our Back-to-School

edition, Pages B1 through B6..

What’s in store for this school

year? Messenger & Republican

interviewed each superinten-

dent to uncover the details.

CHEROKEE SCHOOLS

“The main thing we’re doing

is trying to fi nish the physi-

cal improvements and actual

upgrades (of the school),” Su-

perintendent Terry Chapman

said. “It certainly looks like to

me that AEC has made enough

progress on hooking up the geo-

thermal (heating and cooling

system at the high school) that

it will be ready for the start of

school.”

Work left to be done on the

geothermal system includes

connecting the water lines for

School bells

ring Aug. 12

Stimulus questions...

Superintendents are unsure of the rules

be spent on,” Elliott said. “It’s

going to be pretty diffi cult to

spend it and do the things we

want to do with it in rural Okla-

homa.“If they give me $10,000 and I

have to buy a broom with it, and

I don’t need one, that doesn’

help me much. That’s an exag

geration, but you understan

my point.

“We have some guidelin

but it’s still one of those de

we have to go through and

‘Will you approve this? Ye

no?’“You can go spend your

ey, but when it comes bac

they’re not approving tha

you’re in a jam.”

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SuperintendentHonor Roll

Alexa Goodwin, Taylor High-fill, Courtney Hiller, Connor Mc-Gee, Carli Richmond, Katelyn Roberts, Carson Tullis, Jessica Unruh, Nicole Unruh, Nikolas

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Cherokee High School Honor Roll 2011-12

HELENA – Board of Educa-tion for the Timberlake School District announces that quali-fied individuals interested in running as a candidate for the Number Two seat on the Tim-berlake School District Board of Education may file to run at the Alfalfa County Election Board between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., December 5-7.

T’lake election

AREA NURSING professionals and Northwestern Oklahoma State University nursing seniors and post-graduates were recently inducted into Sigma Theta Tau honor society. Back row, from left: Tamra Frakes, Meagan Allen, Kelsie Blanton, and Sheila Blalock. Mid-dle row: Rachel Meloy, Mariela Hamm, Samantha Blubaugh, Bethany Duhon and Brandi Fisher. Front row: Deidre Leung, Sarah-Beth McGuire, Cindy Wood, Haley Sturgeon, Re-becca Smith-Glenn and Pamela Lake. Not pictured are Kindra Beebe, Kristen Davis, Dr. Jackie McVey and Melvin Blalock.

ALVA – Sigma Theta Tau, a nursing honor society at North-western Oklahoma State Uni-versity, gained 19 members last week.

Inductees heard from Pamela Lake, clinical instructor at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Nursing professionals in the area as well as Northwestern senior and post-graduate nurs-ing students were inducted into Sigma Theta Tau.

Northwestern students rec-ognized included:

Meagan Allen, Amorita; Kel-sie Blanton, Lamont; Samantha Blubaugh, Medford; Kristen Davis, Houston (Texas); Bethan Duhon, Enid; Brandi Fisher, Mooreland; Mariela Hamm, Enid; Sarah-Beth McGuire, Blackwell; Rachel Meloy, Hen-nessey; Rebecca Smith-Glenn, Enid; Haley Sturgeon, Meno; and Cindy Wood, Columbia (Mo.).

Kindra Beebe, Sheila Blal-ock, Melvin Blalock and Tamra Frakes are area nursing pro-

fessionals who became Sigma Theta Tau members.

Honorary members included Dr. Jackie McVey, Pamela Lake and Deidre Leung.

The mission of Sigma Theta Tau is to support the learning, knowledge and professional de-velopment of nurses committed to making a difference in health worldwide.

To learn more about Sigma Theta Tau, contact Northwest-ern’s Division of Nursing at (580) 327-8489.

Area nursing professionals join NWOSU Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society

Gayle Ferril allisonGayle (Ferril) Allison, 90, “a

servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ”, passed away Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. Ser-vices were held Nov. 21, 2011, in Wichita, Kan. Heaven received a treasure when Gayle arrived to meet her Lord and Savior face to face.

Her life exemplified uncondi-tional love and selfless service. She never spoke an unkind word about anybody.

Gayle was born March 19, 1921, in Amorita, Okla., grew up on a farm there, played Okla-homa girls basketball in high school, attended Chillicothe Business College in Missouri.

She worked as a secretary at Boeing and Beech Aircraft for many years. She taught fifth grade Sunday school for over 60 years, influencing countless children with her faith and love.

She was preceded in death by Charles Y. Allison, Jr.; par-ents, Harry Ferril and Grace Ferril Atkison; step-father, Earl Atkison; and step-sisters, Joye Durant and Ruth Neathery.

Survivors are daughter, Jean (John) Northup; son, Kirk (Kar-en) Allison; grandchildren, Ryan and Lindie Northup; brother, Paul (Betty) Ferril; twin brother, Dale Ferril; sister, Jessie (Joe) Fulgham; step-sister, Reba An-gle; and numerous nieces and

nephews whom she dearly loved.Special thanks to Harry

Hines Memorial Hospice staff and Brie RN for their wonder-ful care and kindness.

Memorials to: New Hope Christian Church, 1400 S. George Washington Dr., Wichi-ta, KS, 67211 or Kansas Chris-tian Home, 1035 SE 3rd, New-ton, KS, 67114. www.dlwichita.com. Queries: contact Kirk Alli-son, 651-328-0323. [paid]

Billie Mae ClePPerFuneral service for Bil-

lie Mae Clepper, 82, was at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011 at the Cherokee First Baptist Church with Rev. Tom Cooksey officiating. Burial followed in the Bethel Cemetery under the direction of Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee.

Billie was born March 13, 1929 in Hereford, Texas, the daughter of Fred and Ruby Worley Gibson and passed away Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center in Enid.

She attended school in Little-field, Texas. She moved to Nash, Okla. where she met Lloyd Clep-per at Eagle Grove Church. They were married in Oklahoma City March 19, 1947. They lived in Oklahoma City, Cherokee and Enid before moving to the Byron area. They returned to Cherokee in 1961 where she was living at the time of her death.

Billie was a homemaker and member of the Assembly of God. She carried her Bible as testi-mony of her faith. She was an avid domino player and good at remembering dates and names.

Surviving are her husband, Lloyd, of the home; one daugh-ter, Pam and her husband, Alan Smith of Alva; two sons, David Clepper and his wife, Vicke, and Gary Clepper and his wife, Sandra, of Cherokee; seven grandchildren, Kent and Ross Smith, Jay, Trey, Matt and Kyle Clepper and Maggie Mae Clep-per Hedges; two stepgrandsons, Matthew and Adan Jinkens; and three great-grandchildren, Trenton, Bailey and Madelyn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers; and one sister.

Memorials may be given to Meals on Wheels through Good-win Funeral Home. [paid]

Wayne UnrUhENID — Funeral service for

Wayne Unruh, 76, was at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor Thurman Sparks officiated. Burial followed in Karoma Cemetery, Goltry.

He was born to Dave and Marie (Wedel) Unruh March 30, 1935, in Meno and died Tues-day, Nov. 15, 2011, in Enid.

He grew up in the Helena area and graduated from Hel-

ena High School.June 8, 1956, he married

Edith Frantz in Hillsboro, Kan. They made their home in Meno and then Enid.

He served in the U.S. Army National Guard. He worked for civil service at Vance AFB as a supply clerk and meat cutter for 32 years before retiring. He was a member of Victory Bible Church.

He is survived by his wife, Edith of the home; children, Lester Unruh of Central City, Neb., Earl Unruh of Hillsdale and Dolores Johnson of Belton, Mo.; eight grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Hazel and Marcena; and two brothers, Cecil and Vernon.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Christ for Me Inc.

Alfalfa Electric Co-op121 E. Main - Cherokee, OK

(580) 596-3333

Smith Drug Store121 S. Grand - Cherokee, OK

(580) 596-2764

Croft Country ChevroletHwy 64 South - Cherokee

(580) 596-3348

Ellis & AssociatesInsurance & Real Estate200 Southgate - (580)596-3423

Patton AgencyReal Estate

(580) 596-3321

Goodwin Funeral Home106 W. Second - Cherokee

(580) 596-3346

Farmers Co-operativeCherokee * Carmen * Aline

Great Salt PlainsHealth Center

Dr. Keenan Ferguson, D.O.405 S. Okla. - (580) 596-2800

Farmers Exchange Bank419 S. Grand - Cherokee, OK

(580) 596-3371 - Member FDIC

Alva State Bank & TrustBurlington - (580) 431-3300

Member FDIC

Burlington FarmersCoop

Burlington, OK 73722

Smok-Shak, Inc.2N & 2W of Cherokee on Hwy. 64Dine In - Carry Out - Catering

596-3584 or 888-486-0686Debra Engle, owner

CHEROKEE CHURCHESFirst United Methodist

Pastors: Paul Calkin Jeni Markham ClewellSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.CHUM Youth Classes: 6:30 p.m. Wed. Evening Choir Chime: 6 p.m Choir Practice: 7 p.m.

New Life Assembly of GodInterim Pastor: Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.Sun. Bible Study & Prayer: 6:30 p.m.Wed. Prayer & Bible Study: 7p.m.Prayer line: (580) 596-2155

Bethel Baptist ChurchPastor: Rev. Ed JonesSunday School: 10 a.m.Morning Worship: 11 a.m.Wednesday Youth: 7 p.m.Adult Bible Study, Wed.: 7 p.m.

First Christian ChurchPastor: Dr. Ron Hansen Youth Minister: Barbara JamesSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Sunday Worship: 10:50 a.m.Youth Meet: 5:30 p.m.KREJ Radio Wed: 8:20, 12:55, 5:25

First Baptist ChurchPastor: Tom CookseyAssoc. Pastor: Brandon HollowayMorning Worship: 9:30 a.m.Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.Discipleship Training: 6 p.m.Evening Worship 7 p.m.Wednesday Prayer: 7 p.m.

St. Cornelius Catholic ChurchPastor: Father LawrenceMass Every Sunday: 11:15 a.m.

Friends ChurchPastor: Joe WoodsSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Prairie Valley United MethodistPastor: Mary IrbyMorning Worship: 9:45 a.m.Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.

BURLINGTON CHURCHESChristian Church

Pastor: Dr. Richard DuckworthChurch School: 10 a.m.Worship: 11 a.m.

Church of Christ RiversidePreacher: Jeffrey KeeleSunday School: 10 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:50 a.m.Evening Worship: 5:30 p.m.Wednesday Service: 7:00 p.m.

HELENA CHURCHESFirst Christian Church

Pastor: Jay DrawbridgeWednesday Bible: 9:30 a.m.Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:20 a.m.

Church of ChristPastor: Bill SpringerSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship: 5:30 p.m.

Nazarene ChurchPastor: Dean HoltSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 11 a.m.Evening Worship: 7 p.m.Wednesday Service: 7:30 p.m.

Helena United MethodistPastor: Joel ThompsonSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Youth Group: 6 p.m.

First Baptist ChurchPastor: Scott Hofen Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.Bible Study: 6 p.m.

AMORITA CHURCHESAmorita Community

Pastor: Guy Phillip HarrisMorning Worship: 10 a.m.Sunday School: 11 a.m.

GOLTRY CHURCHESSt. Michael’s Catholic Church

Pastor: Father Larry Kowalski Sun. Morning Mass: 7:30 a.m.

Community Bible ChurchPastor: Bryan BaldwinSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.Evening Worship: 6 p.m.Wed. Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.

First Congregational ChurchPastor: Jane HoSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Family Meal: 1st Sunday, NoonLadies Aid: 1st Sunday, 1:30 p.m.Last Sunday: Holy Communion

New Covenant FellowshipPastor: Dale CumminsSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship: 6:00 p.m.Wed. Yth Grp, Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Pleasant View MennonitePastors: Dennis Koehn, Randy Schmidt & Patrick Koehn Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Evening Worship: 7:30 p.m.Ladies Aid: 1st & 3rd Thursday

Zoar MennonitePastor: Gary EastinSunday School: 9:40 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:40 a.m.Sun & Wed Evening Serv: 6 p.m.

DRIFTWOOD CHURCHDriftwood Christian Church

Minister: Greg SchmidtBible School: 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.

BYRON CHURCHRidin’ 4 Him Cowboy Church

Sunday Learnin’: 9:00 a.m.Sunday Preachin’: 10:00 a.m.Communion 1st Sun. of MonthFellowship Potluck 1st Sun./Mo.

JET CHURCHESNazarene Church

Pastor: Dean HoltWorship Service: 9:30 a.m.Sunday School: 10:45 a.m.

Vining Community ChurchSunday School: 10:00 a.m.Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.Wed. Prayer Mtg: 7:30 p.m.Fellowship/Communion last Sun./Mo.

Jet United Methodist ChurchPastor: Mary IrbySunday School: 10 a.m.Morning Worship: 11 a.m.UMW: Every 3rd Wed. 7 p.m.

CARMEN CHURCHESCarmen Christian Church

Pastor: Kirk BoardSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

Carmen United MethodistPastor: John BizzellSunday School: 10:00 a.m.Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Assembly of GodPastor: Rev. Mike WilesMorning Worship 11 a.m.Sunday School: 10 a.m.

Carmen Baptist ChurchPastor: Jerry StaffordMorning Worship: 9:30 a.m.

Green Valley Free Methodist ChurchPastor: David KellerSunday School: 9:45 a.m.Worship: 10:45 a.m.

ALINE CHURCHESUnited Methodist Church

Pastor: Rachel ParrottSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.Bible Study: 5:00 p.m.

Pleasant Plain Church of the BrethrenPastor: Elsie KoehnSunday School: 10 a.m.Morning Worship: 11 a.m.Sunday Eve Service: 7:30 p.m.3rd Sunday Fellowship after services

First Christian ChurchPastor: Polly YoungSunday School: 9:30 a.m.Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.Youth Group: 4 p.m. CYF: 5 p.m.

Wilber Fertilizer(580) 596-3440

Jeff and Ken

Rick CaruthersConstruction, Inc

9th & Ohio - (580) 596-2341”24 Hour Service”

Cleo State Bank4 Convenient Locations

MEMBER FDIC

Please worship at the church

of your choice.

Yoder Gas CompanyJet, OK

(580) 626-4514

ACB Bank323 S. Grand - Cherokee, OK

(580) 596-3337

Murrow’s Frame Art, LLC

Located in the Downtown Mallwww.murrowsframeart.com

Cherokee Family ClinicIntegris Bass Baptist Health Center

Niki Lewis-Wyatt, P.A.-CCristopher D. Schultz, D.O.

221 S. Grand, Cherokee - 596-3516

The Caring Company217 S. Grand - 596-3535www.thecaringco.com

Lynette Morris

Pate Agency LPWinona Bruner & Paula Mahieu

401 Cherokee, Ste #B580-596-2727

The Healthy TouchSherry Green ~ CMT

580-430-6410

Walter Burkes AgencyRR1 Box 1, Carmen

(580) 987-2520

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By STEVE BOOHERMessenger & Republican Staff

TEMPLE – Pardon the Tim-berlake Tigers for playing the "what if" card this week after seeing their season end here last Friday, 34-22, at the hands of the Temple Tigers.

Three times Timberlake drove inside the Temple 10 yard line and came away without points – twice being intercepted in the end zone. Toss in the fact that Temple's strong running game was aided by poor tackling on oc-casion and it's understandable that even Timberlake Coach Bri-an Severin was second guessing himself after this loss.

"If we don't turn the ball over, it's a different outcome," he said. "We preach and preach not to turn the ball over, especially in big games.

"I'd love to play them again,

BURLINGTON – Senior Bur-lington Elk basketball standout Garrett Butler broke a lot of hearts last week when he signed a letter of intent to play his col-lege ball for Southern Nazarene University in Bethany.

Butler, considered one of the top players in the state regard-less of class, was coveted by many colleges and universities, not only in Oklahoma, but around the na-tion.

He distinguished himself with his play the past several years in

BURLINGTON ALL-STATER Garrett Butler signs letter of intent to play basketball at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany. On hand for the signing are (sitting from left) Rhonda Butler, Garrett Butler, and Butch Butler. Standing from left are SNU Assistant Coach Brian Humphries, Burlington Coach Randy Turney and SNU Head Coach Adam Bohac.)

Cage scheduleTuesday, Nov. 29

Burlington at Aline-CleoCherokee at MedfordWaukomis at Timberlake

Friday, Dec. 2Taloga at Aline-CleoPond Creek-H. at CherokeeKremlin-H. at Timberlake

GIRLS(Games of Wednesday, Nov. 16)

BURLINGTON 64, FREEDOM 25Burlington 21 23 9 11 –64Freedom 2 8 7 8 –25

Burlington: Rieger 20, Garvie 13, S. Nall 10, Armbruster 9, Vore 4, M. Nall 4, Kraft 2, Maltbie 2 .

Freedom: Hopper 6, Edden 6, Mi-lare 4, Mullins 4, Hodgson 3, Nixon 2.

(Games of Friday, Nov. 18)CHEROKEE 38, CIMARRON 26

Cherokee 7 14 9 8 –38Cimarron 6 2 7 11 –26

Cherokee: Hawkins 4, Roberts 2, Highfill 10, Schanbacher 4, Rich-mond 14, Unruh 4.

Cimarron: Pitts 8, Theilen 13, Mc-Cartner 5, Lee 2.

BOYS(Games of Wednesday, Nov. 16)

BURLINGTON 68, FREEDOM 37Burlington 15 34 14 5 –68Freedom 6 2 18 11 –37

Burlington: Butler 18, Vore 12,

Turnovers help Temple triumph over T’lake, 34-22but we won't get that chance. It just kills you. Maybe I should have called more runs than pass-es. But you don't get to take them back."

On the Tigers first possession, they drove from their own one to the Temple 10 before turning the ball over on downs.

T'LAKE ON SCOREBOARD FIRSTWhen Temple couldn't move

the ball, it punted and Timber-lake put together a nine-play, 59-yard march to become the first team to get on the scoreboard. Quarterback Coy Troutt picked up the TD on a 1-yard run with 1:20 left in the opening stanza. He passed to Mitchell Ballard for the conversion points to give the Tigers an 8-0 lead.

Back-to-back completions from Troutt to Buller, the first for 22 yards and the second for nine, put the ball at the one to set up

Troutt's run.Temple tied the contest at 8-all

at the 7:33 mark of the second quarter when 224-pound fullback Cody Littles scored on a 3-yard run to cap off a 63-yard march. Littles ran in the extra points on the conversion.

It looked like the Tigers would regain the lead on their next pos-session, as on a second and 15 from their own 35, Troutt passed to Logan Campbell for 46 yards and a first down at the Temple 19.

END ZONE INTERCEPTION No. 1On the next play, Troutt ran to

the Temple two for another first down. On second and 10, a Troutt pass was tipped and intercepted in the end zone to quell the Tiger scoring threat.

Starting from its own 20, it took Temple only three plays to get on the scoreboard. Quarter-back Aaron Holden got the TD on a 68-yard run by breaking several tackles. The conversion try failed, but Temple was on top, 14-8 with 3:40 left in the half.

That lead didn't last long, how-ever, as Timberlake answered with a 60-yard touchdown run by Campbell 22 seconds later. Troutt passed to Buller for the extra points and Timberlake climbed back on top, 16-14.

Temple came right back with a six-play, 55-yard march that end-ed with a 48-yard TD pass from Holden to Nic Brown. Littles ran for the extra points and Temple regained the lead, 22-16, with 5:33 left in the second quarter.

Timberlake kept the scoring parade going by using only three plays to move the ball 53 yards and score. The touchdown came on a Troutt to Buller 39-yard pass. The conversion try failed, leaving the two ball clubs knot-ted at 22-all when halftime rolled around.

Temple took the third quarter kickoff and put together a six-play, 59-yard drive to retake the lead. The TD came via an 11-yard run by Littles. While the conver-sion try failed, Temple was back on top, 28-22, with 9:29 to play in the third stanza.

END ZONE INTERCEPTION No. 2What followed was a nerve-

wracking Timberlake drive punc-tuated by three fourth down con-versions that eventually moved the ball inside the Temple 15-yard line. But facing a third and two at the Temple seven, a Troutt pass was again intercepted in the end zone to negate the gutsy drive.

For all practical purposes,

Temple put the contest out of reach on its next possession. Brown picked up seven yards on first down and then ripped off a 56-yard run to the Timberlake 17. It looked like the Tigers might be able to stop Temple on downs, but on fourth and three at Tim-berlake's 10-yard line, the Tigers were whistled for a penalty that gave Temple a first down at the Timberlake four.

Two plays later, Brown bulled into the end zone to put Temple up 34-22 with 10:20 left in the fourth quarter.

COMEBACK NOT TO BEThe Tigers set up at their own

46 following the Temple kickoff. After Buller picked up six yards on a run, Troutt passed to Camp-bell for a 16-yard gain and a first down at the Temple 32. Maybe the Tigers had a comeback in them.

That thought faded on the next play when Timberlake fumbled the ball on a run and Temple re-covered at its own 34.

After holding Temple on downs at its own 46, Timberlake marched to the Temple 32 before throwing three straight incompletions to turn the ball over on downs with

5:05 left in the contest.Temple managed to hang onto

the ball for the rest of the game and pick up the win.

The loss dropped Timberlake to 10-1 for the season.

"PROUD OF OUR SENIORS""I'm proud of all our seniors,"

said Severin. "This senior bunch had a 44-6 record over their four years. They reached the semi-finals as freshmen, were state champions as sophomores and were quarterfinalists the last two years.

"I'm proud of the support we received from the community. The parents of this senior bunch are super. With good classes, you usually have good parents."

Seniors playing in their final game included Stetson Buller, Coy Troutt, Brandon Severin, Mitchell Ballard, Logan Camp-bell, Sage Powers and Casey Car-son.

TEMPLE 34, TIMBERLAKE 22Score by Quarter

Timberlake 8 14 0 0 –22Temple 0 22 6 6 –34

The YardstickTemple Timberlake19 First Downs 19

STETS0N BULLER goes over a Temple defender to haul in this pass from Timberlake quarter-back Coy Troutt in last week’s Class C semifinal playoff contest played at Temple.

352 Yds. Rushing 22588 Yds. Passing 1873-5 Passes Comp.-Att. 17-282 Passes Int. By 01-39 Punts-Ave. Yds. 0-000 Fumbles Lost 1 Penalties-Yds. Not Available

Individual StatisticsRushing: Troutt 17-109, 1 TD;

Campbell 3-66, 1 TD; Buller 11-50Passing: Troutt 17-28 for 187

yards, 1 TD, 2 interceptionsReceiving: Campbell 6-92; Buller

8-87, 1 TD; Ballard 3-17Tackles: Campbell 22, Stetson

Buller 19, Brock Buller 13, Powers 11, Troutt 10, Ballard 10, Carson 10

Scoring SummaryFirst Quarter

Timberlake: Troutt 1 run (Ballard pass from Troutt

Second QuarterTemple: Littles 3 run (Littles run)Temple: Holden 68 run (Run

failed)Timberlake: Campbell 60 run

(Buller pass from Troutt)Temple: Brown 48 pass from

Holden (Littles run)Timberlake: Buller 39 pass from

Troutt (Run failed)Third Quarter

Temple: Littles 11 run (Run failed)Fourth Quarter

Temple: Brown 2 run (Run failed)

AAU summer ball, performing before coaches around the coun-try in national tournaments.

Butler's high school coach, Randy Turney, has been high on his star since Butler's freshman year as an Elk. The legendary Burlington mentor has called Butler one of the best he's ever coached.

As a junior last season, Butler led the Elks to the Class B State Tournament with a 23-7 record.

He averaged 36 points a con-test in the three games Burling-

ton played in the Area Tourna-ment.

As a junior, the six-foot sharp shooting guard averaged 23.1 points per contest. He connected on 51.2 percent of his two-point field goal attempts and 37.5 per-cent of his three-pointers.

Butler also averaged 7.2 re-bounds per outing, 4.6 assists and 3.2 steals.

By signing early with SNU, the son of Butch and Rhonda Butler will now be able to concentrate on his senior season with the Elks.

Butler inks early with SNU

Guffy 6, Newlin 6, Stewart 5, Sheu Talbott 3, Flackman 3, Kyle Ellerbeck 2, Keith Ellerbeck 2, J. Ross 2, Gos-selin 2, Czerniak 2, D. Ross 1.

Freedom: Smith 14, Saitta 10, Stahlman 6, Mullins 5, Shreeve 2.

(Games of Friday, Nov. 18)CIMARRON 46, CHEROKEE 36

Cherokee 6 12 6 12 –36Cimarron 16 8 5 17 –46

Cherokee: DeWitt 10, Argraves 7, Hawkins 5, Huckabee 4, Bowman 3,

Roundball wrapupSchanbacher 2.

Cimarron: Seelke 15, Watkins 8, Hurst 7, Brakhage 7, Williams 7, Boyd 2.

TEMPLE running back Nic Brown high steps out of the grasp of a would-be Timberlake defender.

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CROWN volunteers ready to shop, ask for annual donationsMembers of CROWN (Com-

munities Reach Out When Needed) soon will shop local stores for Christmas presents for children and senior citizens in need.

CROWN volunteers are ask-ing for donations to fund the gift buying. Donations can be dropped off at Farmers Ex-change Bank, ACB Bank and Smith Drug in Cherokee.

“Any donation is greatly ap-preciated,” said Treasurer Mary Pat Cudmore. “It’s not a set amount.”

Cudmore will shop with

CROWN President Karla Good-win to purchase items for se-nior citizens and children. Each family on their list will receive a gift and a ham or turkey.

“We try to make it so they have a nice Christmas,” Cud-more said.

Founded in 1976 by Vickie Eshleman, with the help of Carol Elmore, CROWN began as an opportunity to meet the needs of individuals who had fallen through the cracks with DHS.

It also served as a way to distribute presents and food to

children who otherwise wouldn’t have a Christmas.

Following tradition, the Cherokee Fire Department fire-fighters will deliver the pres-ents Dec. 22.

In the past, recipients have received clothes, stationary, stamps, toys and various gifts for the Christmas season.

MEMBERS OF the Outback Riders Motorcycle Club deliver toys Monday to the Cherokee Department of Human Services office. Nearly 80 families received gifts last year from the group, and donations are expected to benefit even more families this year.

Members of the Outback Riders Motor-cycle Club made their annual delivery of toys Monday to the Cherokee Department of Human Services office.

Toys are purchased with proceeds made from the Outback Toy Run that takes

place each October. Donations from busi-nesses in Alfalfa, Major and Woods coun-ties and many individuals also make the yearly event possible.

Besides toys, club members have deliv-ered several bicycles, diapers, gloves and

hats to each DHS office in the three coun-ties. Club members also will take angels from area angel trees and buy items for children and also for senior citizens.

More items will be given during the year, if needed and if possible.

Outback Riders make annual delivery to DHS office

Timberlake playground equipment goal reached, order placedJET – Timberlake Parent

Teachers Organization Inc. have ordered new playground equipment for which members have spent more than year rais-ing money.

Replacing worn out slides and swings will be two state-of-the-art play structures, a tire swing and a six-seat swing set.

New basketball goals will be ordered in December.

PTO members depended on community efforts to raise sup-port for the equipment, some

of which had been on school grounds for more than four de-cades.

Most recently, the group re-ceived a $500 donation from Farmers Grain Company and a $5,000 donation from Chesa-peake to bring them closer to the $83,971 goal.

“It is a priority for Chesa-peake to give back in the areas where we operate,” said Ted Campbell, Chesapeake district manager. “For this reason, and because of the importance of

this playground to the children in the Jet community, we are proud to partner with Timber-lake Elementary School for this project. We hope that the new playground equipment offers the children time for fun, as well as opportunities to be ac-tive.”

Timberlake PTO members began the project more than a year ago when members, along with teachers and students, saw a need to replace outdated playground equipment.

The group had to raise a little more than initially anticipated.

“Since we started this en-deavor, the prices for equipment have increased 10 percent,” said PTO Member and Timberlake teacher Jennifer Diller.

Anyone who would like to help prepare the playground area and install the new equip-ment can call the school at (580) 626-4411. Details will be an-nounced when the equipment arrives.

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BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION EXCEPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 8, TOwNSHIP 24 NORTH, RANGE 10

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106305 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; and if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other asso-ciation, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and per-mitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre drilling and spacing units to be formed in Section 8, Township 24 North, Range 10 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Oswego, Chero-kee and Mississippian separate common sources of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 200 feet from the south line and not closer than 450 feet from the east line of said Section 8 to subsurface locations of such well’s entry into and such well’s exit from each of the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Oswego and Cherokee separate common sources of supply and to a subsurface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 8, with

the first perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 8, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 8, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 8, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly direction and in a westerly direction from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such completion interval, and to be completed in and to produce hydrocarbons from the above-named separate common sources of supply, with such authorization and permission running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the separate common sources of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said Section 8 in regard to the subsurface location tolerance areas described above are Sections 4, 5, 9, 16 and 17, Town-ship 24 North, Range 10 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land

sections” surrounding said Section 8 are Sections 6, 7 and 18, Township 24 North, Range 10 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 12th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, At-torney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Rob-inson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Telephone: (405) 235-1110; or Dillon Orr, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6348.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 21st day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

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Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION EXCEPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 11, TOwNSHIP 28 NORTH, RANGE 9 wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy,

OKLAHOMACAUSE CD NO. 201106191

NOTICE OF HEARINGSTATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-

sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc; Milliken Investments, LLC; and if any of the above-named parties which is a partnership, cor-poration or other association is dissolved, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre horizontal well unit formed in Section 11, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Mis-sissippian common source of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 200 feet from the south line and not closer than 660 feet from the west line of said Section 11 to a subsurface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 11, with the first perforation in the horizontal por-tion or lateral of the borehole of such well

being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 11, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 11, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in such common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Sec-tion 11, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly direction and in a westerly direc-tion from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such completion interval, and to be completed in and to produce hydrocarbons from the above-named common source of supply, with such authorization and permis-sion running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the common source of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said Section 11 in regard to the subsur-face location tolerance areas described above are Sections 2, 3, 10, 14 and 15, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” surrounding said Section 11 are Sections 1, 12 and 13, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa

County, Oklahoma. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this

cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED this 15th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: SPACINGLEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 8, TOwNSHIP 24 NORTH, RANGE 10

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106304 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the fol-lowing: Atinum MidCon I, LLC; Betty Marie Welch; Brian Scott Welch; Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Churchill Royalty Company; Delbert Foltz and Mary Lou Foltz, as Trustees of the Foltz Family Trust dated 11/13/2001; Elnora Janice Thompson; Harold Victor Welch; Betty Marie Welch; LCK Limited Liability Company; Los Quatros, LLC; Michael Todd Welch; Warren S. Churchill Trust, and the Trustee of such trust; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, ex-ecutors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved part-nership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity; and if any of the above-named parties designated as a trustee is not presently acting in such capacity as trustee, then the unknown suc-cessor or successors to such trustee.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation

Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) amending Order No. 204185 to delete Section 8, Township 24 North, Range 10 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, from the purview and boundaries of the Oswego common source of supply as covered by such order and to vacate the 160-acre drilling and spacing units previously formed by such order for such common source of supply in said Section 8; (ii) amending Order No. 51771 to delete said Section 8 from the purview and boundaries of the Meramec common source of supply as covered by such order and to vacate the 640-acre drilling and spacing unit previously formed by such order for such common source of sup-ply in said Section 8; (iii) amending prior orders of the Commission to enlarge and extend the boundaries of the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Oswego, Cherokee and Mississippian separate common sources of supply of gas so as to cover and include said Section 8 and to form proper drilling and spacing units in such section for such separate common sources of supply, which units Applicant requests be formed as 640-acre drilling and spacing units; and (iv) granting such other and further relief as may be proper based upon the evidence presented at the hearing herein.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and seeks to amend the above-named orders in the manner set forth above, Order No. 585477 with respect to the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Cherokee and Mississip-pian separate common sources of supply and Order No. 96691 with respect to the Oswego common source in the lands covered hereby.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence

and reporting to the Commission. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hear-ing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an administra-tive law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 12th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, At-torney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Rob-inson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Telephone: (405) 235-1110; or Dillon Orr, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6348.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 21st day of November, 2011. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

Nov. 156:57 p.m. – Black calves out by

locker plant, driver almost hit one.8:31 p.m. – Horse in front

yard. Advised owner.Nov. 16

1:12 p.m. – Cow out on Mon-roe and Ohio.

1:13 p.m. – Advised it is a bull not a cow. Notified owner.

1:47 p.m. – Supervisor ad-vised that bull is to be put down if he gets out again.

1:59 p.m. – Came in again to confirm that no bull is worth someone’s life.

Nov. 171:05 a.m. – Need ambulance

on rig. Man hit in chest with bolt.

12:13 p.m. – Traffic light is flashing.

1:19 p.m. – Wanted to talk to someone about friend who was just arrested. Advised to talk to sheriff ’s office.

8:36 p.m. – Wanting to talk to officer to press some charges.

Nov. 18

7:54 a.m. – Dogs are dragging trash into their yard. Wants all dogs picked up.

11:36 a.m. – Trash people put hole in poly cart, would like to exchange for one without a hole.

12:25 p.m. – Needs a cage for cats, skunks and possums or she

will shoot them.12:05 p.m. – Child has run

away from school.12:41 p.m. – Child found at

school.3:52 p.m. – Need skunk trap.4:26 p.m. – Fender bender at

Toni’s.

Nov. 141:50 p.m. – Harassing at City

Hall. Wants officer there.11:24 p.m. – Disturbance in

Carmen. Man is trying to take 1-year-old. Isn’t supposed to have baby, doesn’t have car seat.

Nov. 159:44 a.m. – Cow out west of

Garfield County line. Left mes-sage with possible owner.

11:34 a.m. – Woman hit gas pump at Jet Jiffy Trip.

2:10 p.m. – Fire south of Driftwood. Advised Cherokee Fire Department.

Nov. 167:06 a.m. – Accident on US

64 by Jet. 18-wheeler clipped vehicle. Oklahoma Highway Patrol notified.

8:59 p.m. – Ex-girlfriend will not stop calling.

Nov. 1712:59 a.m. – Medical call.

Man on rig has been hit in chest, south on 5th Street in Cherokee. Advised Cherokee Ambulance.

1:36 a.m. – Someone walking south of Cozy Curve. Does not have coat.

11:59 a.m. – Medical call at Burlington C Store. Advised Cherokee Ambulance, Burling-ton Rescue.

1:56 p.m. – Cattle out east on SH 11. Advised possible owner.

5:05 p.m. – Cattle out south

of Helena turnoff. Advised own-er.

5:28 p.m. – Cattle out south of Carmen turnoff. Advised pos-sible owner.

Nov. 1811:11 a.m. – Horse out south

of Cherokee on US 64. Horse out by house and everyone is chas-ing it. Horse is in wheat field. Advised owner. Horse is back where it belongs.

12:47 p.m. – Needs Nes-catunga Fire Department at house. Did not advise why.

5:56 p.m. – Poacher 11 miles north of refuge. Man was bow hunting when gunfire went off. He saw a dead deer. White Ford four-door pickup headed for lake. Advised game warden.

Nov. 1911:40 a.m. – Lady in Wakita

said the wife of the man in the fight at Burlington was threat-ening them. She wanted sheriff to call her. He said he would call her. Also advised Grant County.

1:43 p.m. – Break-in north of Burlington. Door on emp-ty house had been forcefully opened from garage door to in-terior of house.

3:54 p.m. – Goats in highway south of Goltry. Four goats in middle of highway near cem-etery. Before hanging up, goats were in cemetery. No one knew

who they belonged to. Pamela Sands said she would go pick them up.

5:50 p.m. – Cattle out near US 64 and SH 11 junction. Advised possible owner, but he said they weren’t his but would go check to see who they belonged to.

6:50 p.m. – Major County received call about heavy duty truck driving all over road north of Cleo Springs on SH 8 heading north. Advised OHP.

Nov. 209:33 a.m. – Man is pulling up

survey stakes east of his house.3 p.m. – Accident five miles

east of Cherokee on SH 11. Pickup is halfway in road, but driver is not injured. Advised OHP, Cherokee Ambulance and Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

Nov. 212:41 a.m. – Non-injury wreck.

Semi-truck went off road on SH 281. Advised Woods County.

4:12 a.m. – Medical call in Helena. When asked what was going on, caller said same stuff, they’ll know.

8:17 a.m. – Horse out north of Jet. Owner advised.

8:28 p.m. – Possible drunk driver on SH 45 near Carmen. Silver suburban driving at high rate of speed without head-lights, going south on SH 281. Advised OHP, Woods County.

Alfalfa County Sheriff’s Department Log Cherokee Police Dept. Log

Criminal MisdemeanorRonald Lee Phillips has been

charged with driving while un-der the influence of intoxicating substances, unlawful possession of marijuana, unlawful posses-sion of paraphernalia, unlawful possession of synthetic urine to cause deceitful results.

Anthony Beall has been charged with driving while li-cense is under suspension.

Travis Wesley Washburn has been charged with driving while under the influence.

Small Claims

Chris Ferrell, Cherokee, has been sued by Integris Baptist Medical Center for an amount less than $6,000.

CivilSjon White, Cherokee, has been

sued by Midland Funding LLC, Richmand, Va., for indebtedness in an amount less than $10,000.

Danny G. Lohmann, Aline, has been sued by Capital One Bank for indebtedness in an amount less than $10,000.

David Phillips, Geary, has filed a government tort claim against David Parker, Helena.

Alfalfa County Court Docket

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Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION EXCEPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 1, TOwNSHIP 28 NORTH, RANGE 9

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106236 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C.; Carole J. Drake; Henry H. Gungoll Associates; Chase Properties, Inc.; Myra B. Ward; M.B. White, Inc.; Greenstar Resources, LLC; Roger L. Beavers, Inc.; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; and if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved part-nership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre drilling and spacing units formed in Sec-tion 1, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Kansas City, Oswego, Cherokee and Mississippi separate common sources of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 200 feet from the south line and not closer than 660 feet from the west line of said Section 1 to subsurface locations of such well’s entry into and such well’s exit from each of the Tonkawa, Cottage Grove, Kansas City, Oswego and Cherokee separate common sources of supply and to a sub-surface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippi common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 1, with the first perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippi common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 1, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippi common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 1, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippi common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 1, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly

direction and in a westerly direction from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such completion interval, and to be completed in and to produce hydrocarbons from the above-named separate common sources of supply, with such authorization and permission running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the separate common sources of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said Section 1 in regard to the subsurface location tolerance areas described above are Sections 2, 11 and 12, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, and Sec-tions 35 and 36, Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the IM, all in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” sur-rounding said Section 1 are Sections 6 and 7, Township 28 North, Range 8 West of the IM, and Section 31, Township 29 North, Range 8 West of the IM, all in Grant County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 12th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 16th day of November, 2011. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION EXCEPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: FRACTIONAL SECTION 16, TOwNSHIP 29 NORTH,

RANGE 9 wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106294 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C.; DW Hughes, LLC; and if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execu-tion thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the “640-acre” drilling and spacing unit formed in fractional Section 16, Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Mississippian common source of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 200 feet from the south line and not closer than 660 feet from the west line of said fractional Section 16 to a subsurface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said fractional Section 16, with the first perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said fractional Section 16, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well being as follows: not closer than 150 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said fractional Section 16, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in such common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 50 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said fractional Section 16, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly direction and in a westerly direction from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such completion interval, and to be completed in and to pro-duce hydrocarbons from the above-named common source of supply, with such au-thorization and permission running in favor of Applicant or some other party recom-mended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing

a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the common source of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto. Such application further states that said Section 16 lies along the Oklahoma-Kansas state boundary line and such section is a fractional section, contain-ing approximately 541.80 acres.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said fractional Section 16 in the State of Oklahoma in regard to the subsurface loca-tion tolerance areas described above are Sections 17, 20 and 21, Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” sur-rounding said fractional Section 16 in the State of Oklahoma are Sections 15 and 22, Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Bou-levard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Ap-plicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and telephone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this ac-tion, contact John R. Reeves, attorney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Telephone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Ex-ploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA. L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 18th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION EXCEPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 22, TOwNSHIP 29 NORTH, RANGE 11

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106251 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Atinum MidCon I, LLC; and if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and as-signs, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Appli-cant, SandRidge Exploration and Produc-tion, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Com-mission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre drilling and spacing units formed in Section 22, Town-ship 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Douglas, Lansing, Kansas City, Marmaton, Chero-kee and Mississippian separate common sources of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 200 feet from the north line and not closer than 660 feet from the west line of said Section 22 to subsurface locations of such well’s entry into and such well’s exit from each of the Douglas, Lansing, Kansas City, Marmaton and Cherokee separate common sources of supply and to a subsurface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 22, with the first perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 22, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 22, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the west line of said Section 22, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly direction and in a westerly direction from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such completion interval, and to be completed

in and to produce hydrocarbons from the above-named separate common sources of supply, with such authorization and permission running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the separate common sources of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said Section 22 in regard to the subsur-face location tolerance areas described above are Sections 15, 16, 21, 27 and 28, Township 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” surrounding said Section 22 are Sections 14, 23 and 26, Township 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Kevin Manning, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-5788.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 17th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICE

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: INCREASED DENSITy

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: FRACTIONAL SECTION 16, TOwNSHIP 29 NORTH,

RANGE 9 wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106293 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the fol-lowing: Larry Bob Jones; US Bank, NA, as Trustee of the William M. Smith Trust f/b/o Judith S. Mendoza; Robert May Christian; William A. May; Helen May; Robert E. May; Margaret May Christian; Round Hill Royalty LP; Jennifer E. Smith; Jean E. Smith; Gregory C. Smith; Jeffrey B. Smith; Lonna Smith Hale; Virginia How Smith Revocable Oil and Gas Trust dtd 5/10/93, and the Trustee of such trust; Wilbur Oil, LLC; MacDonnell Properties, LLC; Richard A. MacDonnell, as Trustee; The Fadrique Trust dtd 10/24/72, and the Trustee of such trust; R.B. Keating, III, as Trustee; RJ and CS St. Germain Partnership, Ltd.; Louise H. Davis Irrevocable Trust created by Declara-tion of Trust dated 8/31/76, and the Trustee of such trust; Harris Bank, Napierville, Illinois, as Successor Trustee f/b/o Joseph Laurence Buell IV, Pearson Wells Buell and Hubert Burling Buell; First National Bank and Trust Company of Tulsa, as Trustee of the Trust C-2 for Sidney Davis Smith under L/W/T of Sidney H. Davis; Priscilla Davis Gravely; Georgi Davis Duwe; Sidney Roger Davis; Floyd Hugh Davis; Jennifer Jeanne Davis; Suzanna Davis, LP; Cheryl Davis Mills; Sandra Davis Kirk; Mimi Davis Apthorp; Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Roger Davis; Atinum MidCon I, LLC; May Family Prop-erties LLC; Echo Energy Group, LLC; DW Hughes, LLC; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other associa-tion, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity; and if any of the above-named parties designated as a trustee is not presently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the unknown successor or successors to such trustee.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, amending the applicable orders

of the Commission, including Order No. 585898, to authorize and permit another well in the “640-acre” drilling and spacing unit formed for the Mississippian common source of supply in fractional Section 16, Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, so as to produce hydrocarbons from such common source of supply, with such authorization and permission running in favor of Appli-cant or some other party recommended by Applicant, and to establish proper al-lowables for such well and such unit.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter (amending the applicable orders of the Commission, including Order No. 585898) be made effective as of the date of the ex-ecution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hear-ing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an administra-tive law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA. L. MURPHY, Chair BOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 18th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICEPublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: INCREASED DENSITy

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 11, TOwNSHIP 28 NORTH, RANGE 9

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106190 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Scot A. Neilson; Debora A. Stone a/k/a Debora A. Neilson; Patricia Ann Hess; J. Edward Vardy and Gladys Vardy Trust under Trust Agree-ment dated 8/5/08, and the Trustee of such trust; Martha J. Bowers; Dwight H. Bowers; Sinclair Oil and Gas Company; Marshall D. Burnet Share of the James D. Burnet Trust No. 1 (Trust Be) dtd 3/1/82, and the Trustee of such trust; Frank J. Sell; C.E. Drenman; Hazel M. Cassingham Rev. Trust, and the Trustee of such trust; Cascade Royalty Fund, LP; Ford Royalty Company, LLC; Henry H. Gungoll Associates; Chase Prop-erties, Inc.; University of Oklahoma Founda-tion, Inc.; Carole J. Drake; Myra B. Ward; Susan J. DeGandi; Garrett R. Hanson; LMR Royalties, LLC; Jennie G. Hawkes; Susan Jean Conway; Maurice Dean Coover and Mary Elain Storley, as Successor Trustees; Florence Coover; Reliant Resources, LLC; Ervin Antone Barglof a/k/a Erwin Anton Barglof; Pearl Elizabeth Welle; M.B. White; Greenstar Resources, LLC; Cynthia Alper; Roger L. Beavers, Inc.; Milliken Invest-ments, LLC; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved partnership, corporation or other associa-tion, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity; and if any of the above-named parties designated as a trustee is not presently acting in such capac-ity as trustee, then the unknown successor or successors to such trustee.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, amending the applicable orders of the Commission, including Order No. 588053, to authorize and permit another well in the 640-acre horizontal well unit

formed for the Mississippian common source of supply in Section 11, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, so as to produce hy-drocarbons from such common source of supply, with such authorization and permis-sion running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant, and to establish proper allowables for such well and such unit.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter (amending the applicable orders of the Commission, including Order No. 588053) be made effective as of the date of the ex-ecution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hear-ing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an administra-tive law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA. L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 15th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LEGAL NOTICEPublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE

OF OKLAHOMAAPPLICANT: SANDRIDGE

EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC

RELIEF SOUGHT: INCREASED DENSITy

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 1, TOwNSHIP 28 NORTH, RANGE 9

wEST OF THE IM, ALFALFA COUNTy, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201106237 NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, LLC; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Lorrain Ohl; William M. Schmitz, III; Jeremiah Von Schmitz; William John Schmitz; Leland C. German; C. Marlene German; Cleroy Inc.; Lanroy Inc.; Patrick A. McGinley Rev. Living Trust dtd 1/2/90, and the Trustee of such trust; J.R. McGinley, Jr Rev. Living Trust dtd 1/2/90, and the Trustee of such trust; James E. & Jeanette M. Langton Revocable Trust dtd 5/10/95, and the Trustee of such trust; Carole J. Drake; Henry H. Gungoll Associates; Chase Properties, Inc.; Myra B. Ward; M.B. White, Inc.; Greenstar Resources, LLC; Roger L. Beavers, Inc.; if any of the above-named individuals be deceased, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such deceased individual; if any of the above-named parties is a dis-solved partnership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity; and if any of the above-named parties designated as a trustee is not presently acting in such capacity as trustee, then the unknown suc-cessor or successors to such trustee.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, amending the applicable orders of the Commission, including Order No. 585410, to authorize and permit another well in the 640-acre drilling and spacing unit formed for the Mississippi common source of supply in Section 1, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, so as to produce hy-drocarbons from such common source of supply, with such authorization and permis-

sion running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant, and to establish proper allowables for such well and such unit.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter (amending the applicable orders of the Commission, including Order No. 585410) be made effective as of the date of the ex-ecution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hear-ing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an administra-tive law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 12th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Luke Roberts, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-6344.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA. L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 16th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

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LegaL noticePublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 10, Thursday, Nov. 17, and Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 3t

INVITATION TO BIDEASEMENT #8974

The Commissioners of the Land Offi ce, an agency of the State of Oklahoma, offers for sale by sealed bid, a 20 year easement for a electric transmission line in the S/2 Section 36-T24N-R11WIM, Alfalfa County, subject to all rules and regulations of the Land Offi ce. Appraised value is $16,700.00. Bids less than the appraised price will not be considered. Successful bidder must pay all advertising costs prior to issuance of the easement. Sealed bids must be received in our offi ce by 2:00 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Outside of envelope must be marked “SEALED BID FOR EASEMENT #8974”. Mail to Commissioners of the Land Offi ce, 120 N. Robinson, Suite 1000W, Oklahoma City, OK 73102. Proceeds of sale benefi t the school children of Oklahoma. Additional information may be obtained from the Real Estate Management Division of the Commissioners of the Land Offi ce by calling (405) 521-4136 or email james.spurgeon@clo.ok.gov

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TOWN OF HELENA is taking ap-plications for Part Time Employ-ment with the Potential of Full Time Advancement for City Main-tenance. Pay per hour according to experience. Valid driver’s license re-quired. Application must be turned in by December 2nd, 2011 at 4:15 p.m. at the Helena Town Hall, 304 N. Main, Helena, OK.

PUbLISHER’S NOTICE:All real estate advertised herein

is subject to the Federal Fair Hous-ing Act. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings adver-tised are available on an equal op-portunity basis.

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development all publishers should publish a notice such as the one below to indicate compliance with the Fair Housing Act.

The Publisher’s Notice must be published one time in every edition of your publication that contains real estate/housing advertising. The notice should be placed at the beginning of the real estate/housing classi ed ads.

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE:All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation, or dis-crimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handi-cap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not know-ingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are here-by informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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Display advertising should include the equal housing opportunity slogan or logo

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INVITATION TO BIDEASEMENT #8981

The Commissioners of the Land Offi ce, an agency of the State of Oklahoma, offers for sale by sealed bid, a 20 year easement for a 5.5” saltwater pipe-line in the SW/4 Section 36-T24N-R11WIM, Alfalfa County, subject to all rules and regulations of the Land Offi ce. Appraised value is $3,900.00. Bids less than the appraised price will not be consid-ered. Successful bidder must pay all advertising costs prior to issuance of the easement. Sealed bids must be received in our offi ce by 2:00 pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011. Outside of envelope must be marked “SEALED BID FOR EASEMENT #8981”. Mail to Commissioners of the Land Offi ce, 120 N. Robinson, Suite 1000W, Oklahoma City, OK 73102. Proceeds of sale ben-efi t the school children of Oklahoma. Additional information may be obtained from the Real Estate Management Division of the Commissioners of the Land Offi ce by calling (405) 521-4136 or email james.spurgeon@clo.ok.gov

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LegaL noticePublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 17, Thursday, Nov. 24, and Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. 3t

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LegaL noticePublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 17, and Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 2t

in the district court of aLfaLfa county, okLahoma

case no.pb-2011-32In the Matter of the Estate of Lillian

Faye Parks, Deceased.notice to creditors

All persons having claims against the estate of Lillian Faye Parks s/p/a Lil-lian F. Parks, Deceased, are required to present the same with a description of all security interests and other collateral, if any, held by each creditor with respect to such claims; and the necessary vouchers to the named Personal Representative, Colleen Prall at P.O. Box 35, Nash, Okla-homa 73761; or to Randy J. Long of Field, Trojan & Long, P.C., Attorney at Law, 106 W. Randolph, P.O. Box 5676, Enid, Okla-homa 73702; on or before the following presentment date: 24th day of January, 2012, or the same will be forever barred.

Dated this 14th day of November, 2011.

s/Colleen PrallPersonal Representative

s/Randy J. Long, OBA#5515Field, Trojan & Long, P.C.P.O. Box 5676Enid, OK 73702(580) 233-4625(580) 233-8874/faxAttorney for Personal Representative

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

before the corporation commission of the state

of okLahomaappLicant: eagLe energy

production, LLcreLief sought: horiZontaL

spacingLegaL description: section

15, toWnship 24 north, range 9 West, aLfaLfa county,

okLahomacause cd 201106126-tnotice of hearing

STATE OF OKLAHOMA: To all per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma; and if any of the named individuals or entities be deceased or a dissolved partnership, corporation or other association, then the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, successors, trustees and assigns of any such deceased individual or dis-solved partnership, corporation or other association.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant in this Cause is requesting the following relief and special relief from the Commission:

[a] ESTABLISH OR EXTEND ORDER TO BE ENTERED IN CAUSE CD NO. 201105426-T - 640 acre drilling and spac-ing horizontal gas unit for the Mississippian common source of supply from Section 16 to now include Section 15, Township 24 North, Range 9 West, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. In Section 15 there is spaced by Order No. 181554 the Mississippian formation on 80 acre drilling and spacing units. There are currently no Mississip-pian producing wells in Section 15. For this reason Order No. 181554 for the Mississippian shall be superseded by this horizontal spacing.

[b] Provide that the order be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior to the date of execution of the order.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause be set before an Administrative Law Judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission.

IT IS ORDERED AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that this Cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Eastern Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Room 114, 440 South Hous-ton, Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m., on the 13th day of December 2011, and that this Notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT any person interested or protesting the application please advise the Attorney of record and the Court Clerk’s Office of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission five (5) days before the hearing date above.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Applicant and interested parties may present testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person and persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact the Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their name and phone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT this cause, if protested, may be subject to a prehearing or settlement conference pursuant to OCCRP 165:5-11-2.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this ac-tion, contact Mark Hambric (918) 746-1350 or Michael D. Stack, Attorney for Applicant, 943 East Britton Road, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73114; Tele (405) 286-1717; Fax (405) 286-2122.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L MURPHY, CHAIRBOB ANTHONY, VICE CHAIRMAN

PARTICE DOUGLAS, COMMISSIONERDONE AND PERFORMED THIS 14th DAY OF NOVEMBER 2011.ATTEST: PEGGY MITCHELL,SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION

LegaL notice

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

before the corporation commission of the state

of okLahomaappLicant: continentaL

resources, inc.reLief sought: pooLing

Lands coVered: section 24, toWnship 28 north, range 11 West, aLfaLfa county,

okLahomacause cd no. 201105721

amended notice of hearingSTATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-

sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, and more particularly Sandridge Energy, Inc.; San-dridge Exporation and Production, LLC; Atinum MidCon I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Cisco Operating, LLC; D.E. Shaw Direct Capital Portfolios, L.L.C.; TLW Land & Cattle, L.P., an Oklahoma lim-ited partnership; Chemical Bank, Trustee under the Will of Betty Pepis, deceased; A. Pepis, if living, if deceased the Known and Unknown Heirs, Successors and Assigns; Norse Exploration, Inc.; Dune Resources, Inc.; Mathieson Development, Inc.; C.R. Carroll Investments, Inc.; A. Pepis, if liv-ing, if deceased the Known and Unknown Heirs, Successors and Assigns; Dune Resources, Inc.; WCT Resources, L.L.C.; and if any of the above whose addresses are not known or are deceased, the un-known heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, immediate and remote, of the above-named parties; and if any of the above are corporations which do not continue to have legal exis-tence, the unknown trustees or assigns of such parties.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant in this cause is requesting that the Commission pool the interests and adjudicate the rights and equities of oil and gas owners in the Admire, Arbuckle, Cherokee, Cottage Grove, Council Grove, Endicott, Misener, Mississippian, Oswego, Tonkawa, Toronto, Viola, Wilcox and Woodford common sources of supply

underlying Section 24-28N-11W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, designating the Ap-plicant or some other party as operator. Applicant is proposing to drill a well in said drilling and spacing unit.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any Order issued in this cause may result in a unit pooling.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Ap-plicant may request more than 180 days to commence operations.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause be set before an Administrative Law Judge for the hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Admin-istrative Law Judge on the initial hearing docket at the Corporation Commission, 1st Floor, Jim Thorpe Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m. on the 12th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the Rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate shall contact the Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing, and provide their name and telephone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this ac-tion, contact Kiley Williams, Jackfork Land, Inc., as Agent for Continental Resources, Inc., 933 East Britton Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73114, (405) 840-5999, or David E. Pepper, Attorney, 1600 Bank of Okla-homa Plaza, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, (405) 235-7000.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, CHAIR BOB ANTHONY, VICE CHAIRMAN

PATRICE DOUGLAS, COMMISSIONER DONE AND PERFORMED this 16th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION

LegaL notice

LegaL noticePublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

notice of fiLing appLicationappLication no. 1203000025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, is requesting that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, pursuant to OAC Rules 165:10-5-5 and 165: 5-7-27, administratively authorize the approval of disposal of saltwater and associated deleterious substances into a non-commercial disposal well as follows:

WELL NAME AND LOCATION: Dotty SWD 2-27, SW4, NE4, SE4, SE4, Sec. 27-T29N-R10W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

DISPOSAL ZONE AND DEPTH: Ar-buckle, TOP – approx. 5370’, BOTTOM – approx. 7175’ TD

DISPOSAL RATE AND PRESSURE: 60,000 BPD, 2000 PSI

Objections may be filed with the Okla-homa Corporation Commission within fifteen (15) days after publication of this notice. Objections, if any, should be mailed to Oil and Gas Conservation Division, Pol-lution Abatement Dept., Jim Thorpe Bldg., P.O. Box 52000, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73152-2000.

November 24, 2011

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 17, Thursday, Nov. 24, and Thursday, Dec. 1 2011. 3t

in the district courtof aLfaLfa countystate of okLahoma

cJ-2011-29SANDRIDGE EXPLORATION AND PRO-DUCTION, LLC, a Delaware Limited Li-ability Company, Plaintiff, v. NADINE WILLIAMS, if living, and if deceased, her unknow heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives, trustees, suc-cessors and/or assigns; and JOSEPH R. PHILLIPS, Power of Attorney for Nadine Williams, Defendants.

notice by pubLicationTHE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, TO: NA-

DINE WILLIAMS, if living, and if deceased, her unknow heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives, trustees, suc-cessors and assigns.

TAKE NOTICE that SandRidge Explo-ration and Production, LLC filed an Amend-ed Petition against you in the District Court of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma in an action entitled SANDRIDGE EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company v. NADINE WIL-LIAMS, if living, and if deceased, her un-know heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives, trustees, successors and/or assigns; and JOSEPH R. PHILLIPS, Power of Attorney for Nadine Williams, Case No. CJ-2011-29. This summons by publication is specifically directed to Nadine Williams, if living, and if deceased, her unknow heirs, devisees, legatees,

personal representatives, trustees, suc-cessors and assigns, whose whereabouts are unknown. The nature of the suit against you is to determine surface damages relative to the drilling of oil and gas on the following described real estate, in which you have, or may have, an interest situated in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, to wit: Lots 1 and 2 and the S/2 NE/4 of Section 1, Town-ship 25 North, Range 9 West; and that you must answer the Amended Petition of said Plaintiff on or before December 29, 2011, or the allegations of said Amended Petition will be taken as true, and a judgement will be entered in Plaintiff’s favor as prayed for in its Petition.

FURTHER, TAKE NOTICE that you are entitled to select an appraiser to inspect the lands comprising the location of the Plaintiff’s proposed ell and consider the amount of surface damages, if any, which you, the Defendants, will incur by reason of the Plaintiff’s entry upon the land and by reason of exploring for, mining, drilling, for and producing oil, gas, or other minerals from said land.

Dated this 14th day of November, 2011.SEAL /s/Lori Irwin, Court Clerk

By: Lori Irwin/s/Bradley A. GungollBradley A. Gungoll, OBA #3660Reagan D. Allen, OBA #19739GunGoll, Jackson, collins, Box & Devoll, P.C.P.O. Box 1549Enid, OK 73702Telephone (580) 234-0436Attorneys for Plaintiff, SandRidge Energy, Inc.

LegaL notice

Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

before the corporation commission of the state

of okLahomaappLicant: sandridge

eXpLoration and production, LLc

reLief sought: Location eXception

LegaL description: section 26, toWnship 29 north, range 11

West of the im, aLfaLfa county, okLahoma

cause cd no. 201106252notice of hearing

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All per-sons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the following: Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C.; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; EG Energy, L.L.C.; Stockbridge Consulting, Inc.; XTO Energy, Inc.; Quail Creek Royalty, L.L.C.; Isaacs Family L.L.C.; and if any of the above-named parties is a dissolved part-nership, corporation or other association, then the unknown successors, trustees and assigns, both immediate and remote, of such dissolved entity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Appli-cant, SandRidge Exploration and Produc-tion, LLC, has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Com-mission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre drilling and spacing units formed in Section 26, Town-ship 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Douglas, Lansing, Kansas City, Marmaton, Chero-kee and Mississippian separate common sources of supply, so as to allow a well to be drilled from a surface location being not closer than 165 feet from the south line and not closer than 450 feet from the east line of said Section 26 to subsurface locations of such well’s entry into and such well’s exit from each of the Douglas, Lansing, Kansas City, Marmaton and Cherokee separate common sources of supply and to a subsurface location of such well’s entry into the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 26, with the first perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the south line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 26, and with the last perforation in the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 300 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 26, and with the terminus or end point of the horizontal portion or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Mississippian common source of supply being as follows: not closer than 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet from the east line of said Section 26, and with a “tolerance distance” for the above-described subsurface locations, horizontal portion or lateral and completion interval of such well being as follows: a distance of not more than 100 feet in an easterly direction and in a westerly direction from any such subsurface location, from any point on or along such horizontal portion or lateral and from any point on or along such

completion interval, and to be completed in and to produce hydrocarbons from the above-named separate common sources of supply, with such authorization and permission running in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant; and (ii) establishing a proper allowable for the proposed well involved herein as to the separate common sources of supply covered hereby, which allowable Applicant requests be established as a full allowable with no downward adjustment made thereto.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the application in this cause requests that the order to be entered in this matter be made effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto and that the authorization and permission requested herein run in favor of Applicant or some other party recommended by Applicant.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in said Section 26 in regard to the subsur-face location tolerance areas described above are Sections 23, 24, 25, 35 and 36, Township 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” surrounding said Section 26 are Sections 22, 27 and 34, Township 29 North, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set before an administrative law judge for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. Notice is further given that the application in this cause may be amended at such hearing in accordance with the rules of the Commission and the laws of the State of Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause is set for hearing before an admin-istrative law judge on the Conservation Docket at the Western Regional Service Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on the 13th day of December, 2011, and that this notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant and interested parties may pres-ent testimony by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their names and tele-phone numbers.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact John R. Reeves, Attor-ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, Tele-phone: (405) 235-1110; or Kevin Manning, SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-5788.

CORPORATION COMMISSIONOF OKLAHOMA

DANA L. MURPHY, ChairBOB ANTHONY, Vice Chairman

PATRICE DOUGLAS, CommissionerDONE AND PERFORMED this 17th day of November, 2011.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL,Commission Secretary

LegaL notice

LegaL noticePublished in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. 1t

LegaL noticeThe Board of Education of the Tim-

berlake School District hereby provides legal notice that the annual election filing period for candidates will open Monday, December 5, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. and will close Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. or when the Alfalfa County Election Board Office closes for business that day.

Board Member Position on Ballot: The voters shall elect a board member for board position No. Two, which has a 5-year term of office.

To each of you who prayed, vis-ited, brought food, sent flowers and gave to the memorial during James’ recent illness and death, please know that it was deeply ap-preciated.

James (Jim) Kern FamilyMarlene & Laura

The Lyle Schanbacher family wishes to thank everyone for the lovely flowers, food, cards, phone calls, donations to the memorial and encouragement for us in our difficult time while he was ill and in his passing. Also the ladies and friends of Prairie Valley Church for the wonderful meal. God bless our wonderful minister for her services. As well as the Methodist Church in Cherokee for allowing us to have Lyle’s service there.

Thanks again,Doris, Marlene, Darlene & Rocky

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Burlington team brings home gold emblem from National FFA Convention in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Bur-lington FFA Agricultural Com-munications team members earned the honor of fifth high team in the National FFA Ag-ricultural Communications Ca-reer Development Event, held recently in conjunction with the 84th National FFA Convention. Only one team from every state is eligible to compete in the na-tional finals.

The team, led by advisor Travis Bradshaw, was awarded a gold emblem for its perfor-mance. Members also competed for individual awards with 150 other participants.

Molley Vap received a gold emblem; Victoria Loeser re-ceived a silver emblem; Tiffany Rieger received a silver emblem; Katelyn Garvie received a gold emblem; and Hana Newman re-ceived a silver emblem.

The top six individuals and the national winning team members received scholarships to further their education at a post-secondary institution of their choice.

Vap was named the fifth high individual and received a $1,000 scholarship. Garvie was named the eighth high individual.

The scholarships and the agricultural communications event are sponsored by the Na-tional FFA Foundation.

The National FFA Agricul-tural Communications CDE is a competitive activity that tests students’ skills in all areas of the agricultural communica-tions field and evaluates how well they can apply classroom knowledge to real-life situa-tions.

Participants attend a simu-lated news conference and use

the information gathered to complete individual practicums in news story writing, press re-lease writing, radio broadcast-ing, Web design and graphic design.

Prior to the event, students compile communication project proposals related to innovative agricultural practices, manage-ment techniques and marketing tools. Each team then creates a 15-minute presentation based on their proposal. Members also compete in an editing exercise and a general communications quiz.

The event, held at the Uni-versity Place Hotel in Indianap-olis, Ind., is one of many educa-tional activities at the national FFA convention in which FFA members practice the lessons learned in their agricultural education classes.

BURLINGTON FFA Agricultural Communications team members include (from left) Mol-ley Vap, Tiffany Rieger, Hana Newman, Victoria Loeser and Katelyn Garvie. The team placed fifth at the National FFA Convention.

Two ODOT projects approvedOKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Department of Transpor-

tation commission members awarded two projects in Alfalfa County during the Nov. 7 regular commission meeting.

The first was a $3.7 million project to replace the SH 8 bridge over Driftwood Creek, 3.5 miles north of the US 64 and SH 11 Junction. The project was awarded to Sewell Bros., Oklahoma City, said Cole Hackett, ODOT public relations specialist.

ODOT crews will meet with the contractor soon to come up with a schedule and start date for the project.

A second project is an $875,000 county bridge project over Ea-gle Chief Creek, one mile north of SH 45 and six miles west of SH 8, west of Carmen. The project was awarded to Sewell Bros.

ALFALFA COUNTY 4-H Delegates (from left) Jarrett James, Dalton Parker, Bayli Hyde and Kelsi Smith at-tend the 4-H Leadership Conference Oct. 20 and 21 in Ponca City. Delegates played leadership games, toured Head Country BBQ, elected officers and enjoyed a meal and dance at Marland Mansion. The highlight of the conference was attending a ropes course, which helped with team building skills, at Camp McFadden.

Leading the way

Dotterer earns doctorate from Oklahoma State University

STILLWATER – Cherokee High School graduate Gary Paul Dotterer recently earned a Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University.

He successfully defended his dissertation research in the College of Education, Occupa-tional Education Studies de-partment. His research exam-ines performance outcomes on

multiple-channel technologies and learning styles in procedur-al instructional design.

Dotterer is an adjunct in-structor for Oklahoma State University and works as an Internet technology developer in Career and Technical Educa-tion.

During the scholastic pro-cess, Dotterer earned numer-

ous research awards including the Outstanding Presentation Award at the national confer-ence of the Association for Ca-reer and Technical Education Research and the National Research Award from the Na-tional Association of Indus-trial and Technical Teacher Educators.

He was the recipient of nu-merous scholarships, awards and the prestigious Drs. Floyd and Lynna Ausburn outstand-ing graduate research award in 2009 and 2010.

O.S.U’s OCED degree pro-gram ranks seventh in the na-tion as rated by U. S. News and World Report. OCED is the only O.S.U. nationally-ranked pro-gram.

JET – Overwhelmed does not begin to express how the chair-man of the State Cultural En-richment Oklahoma Home and Community Education group felt when she saw the outpour-ing of fabric, yarn, thread and notions from women all over the state.

Women brought the do-nations Nov. 1 to the OHCE Leadership Training Confer-ence in Oklahoma City. Sup-plies were packed in tote bags, boxes and pillowcases to be delivered to Prairie Quilts in Hennessey. From there they will be shipped to women in Afghanistan.

Randa Parrish, owner of Prairie Quilts, works with Clara Varga, a soldier serving in Af-ghanistan, to provide women of that nation the opportunity for better lives as they learn sew-ing skills to provide livelihoods for their families.

Connie LaGrow of Alfalfa County serves as chairman of the State Cultural Enrichment Committee of the Oklahoma Home and Community Educa-tion group. She read about the project in a newsletter from Prairie Quilts.

It was published in the OHCE state newspaper, and the wom-en responded by bringing sup-plies that filled the back of four vehicles, tightly packed, with all the sewing supplies anyone could ever imagine. There were buttons, fasteners, pins, pin-cushions, cutters, embroidery supplies, organizers, needles, thimbles, sew-in interfacing and stabilizers, yarn, crochet hooks and beads.

Helping with transportation of the goods to the store in Hen-nessey were Marcy Wichert, Alfalfa County OSU Extension educator; Ronda DeVore, Wood-ward OSU Extension educator; Mary Jo Bullis from Dover; Sheri Whitlow and LaGrow, OHCE members and state OHCE com-mittee members from Jet.

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