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Demons beat Chandler 8-4By Eva Faye Gleason

The Beggs High Schoolbaseball team traveled toChandler on Tuesday eveningto play the Lions. The Demonshad Garrett Lewis on themound and the Lions hadGreen. Neither team scored in the

first inning even though bothteams left runners on thebases.In the top of the second,

Tyler Marr stepped up to theplate and hit a double to leftfield. Then Garrett Lewis hit asingle to right field to bringTyler across home plate for thefirst run of the game.Andrew Westbrook and Sam

Stamper both hit fly ball outsbefore DoLee Wolf came up tothe plate and hit a single to leftfield and moved Garret to sec-ond. Lane Bouse struck out tostrand two on the bases. The Lions didn’t score in the

bottom of the second, eventhough they had one left on thebases before Garrett struck out

the next two and the third hit aground ball for an out.The Demons came back in

the top of the third to add onemore run when BlakeMcPherson drews a walk andmoved to second when BlakeJones hit a sacrifice bunt toadvance him. McPhersontagged up and went to third.Tyler hit a single past theshortstop and McPhersondashed home to score againbefore Garrett struck out toend the inning.The Lions didn’t score again

in the bottom of the third eventhough they had three get onthe bases by walks and beinghit by the pitcher.The Demons came storming

back in the top of the fourthwhen Sam Stamper, DoLeeWolf, Garrett Lewis, BlakeJones and Tyler Marr all hitsingles and Blake McPhersonhit a double to add 4 more runsbringing the score to 6-0.The Lions were down, but

not out as they finally got 3runs in off a walk, 2 singles

and a double.At the end of the fourth it

was 6-3.The Demons added one

more in the top of the fifthwhen Sam struck out; DoLeedrew a walk; Lane hit a singleto left field; and DoLee wentto second. Then McPherson hitanother single to bring inDoLee before the Lions madethe third out.The Lions scored 1 run in

the bottom half to bring thescore to 7-4.Neither team got a run dur-

ing the sixth inning. theDemons came back in the topof the seventh to add 1 morerun when the Lions new pitch-er walked Lane, who then stolesecond and an error by thepitcher let him go all the wayto third base. McPherson hitanother single to bring Laneacross the plate to score the 8thrun for the Demons. The Lions didn’t score in the

bottom of the 7th, giving theDemons an 8-4 victory.

Consultants to take over therequired tests for gas leakdetection. The companyreplaces the work previouslydone by PRC. That companydeclined to renew their con-tract because of certain liabili-ty issues.The contract is for 1 year

with a renewable option and

will cost the town $695 foreach 8-hour day they performtheir services. According toRita Stover, CityAdministrator, the test takeabout one day each quarter toperform. The town providesthe gas service within the citylimits.No action was taken regard-

ing the purchase of new carsfor the police department orthe purchase of street lights forthree area streets. Both ofthese agenda items requiredadditional research and areexpected to be considered atnext month’s meeting.

the emergency sirens. According to the mayor, the

sirens can only be activated byradio signals which Mitchellcan control from his vehicle,but that no one in the city hasaccess. Mayor Bell told thecouncil that Mitchel “won’ttalk to me. He told me that hewould take care of it.” However, the mayor and

council were clear that theywanted to be able to have theability to turn the sirens on ifneeded and they also needed a

way to test the sirens.Councilman Ballard said

that he would get ahold ofMitchell and work out a solu-tion. “This is stupid,” Ballardexclaimed.Mitchell, who serves as fire

chief for the City ofOkmulgee, and Mayor Bellhave had a rocky relationship.Bell says that when he tookover the office from Mitchell,all of the files were missingand no papers or files wereprovided to him about ongoing

issues. In fact, a number offiles were found buried at thecity lake and dug back up bythe city. An ongoing investiga-tion continues into that matter.In other action, the council

approved a request from TedNolan, owner of KnighthorseFirearms, to install a shootingtube at his business in order totest guns. Approval was need-ed because city ordinancesprohibit the firing of gunsinside the city limits.

providing food services for theGreek fraternities and sorori-ties on the OSU campus. Theirphilosophy is to use freshproducts cooked from scratchhas to increase excitement andattendance in public and pri-vate school cafeterias. Therewas initially some oppositionfrom the current food servicestaff about the change, howev-er, according to Superinten-dent Cindy Swearingen, thechange has already led toincreased usage of the cafete-ria by both students and staff.

“The food is excellent,” shenoted.Keystone currently serves a

number of school districts andprivate schools.In other action, the board

agreed to reappoint MikeHubbell as Board President,Rick Miller as Vice Presidentand Mickey Shaffer as Clerk.Whenever there is a change ofboard members, nominationsare then taken for officers.The board accepted resigna-

tion letters from StephanieEager, Janet Counts and

Brenda Truesdell as well asFamily Medical Leave forStacie Kelly.A number of certified staff

were reappointed for the nextschool year. The middle schoolprincipal Kenny Hurst and theHigh School principal KristiSmith were reappointed as wasthe Assistant High SchoolPrincipal Doug Price. The board also hired current

auditor Ralph Osborn as theschool’s auditor for the 2014-2015 school year.

The 2014 Farm Bill, formal-ly known as the AgriculturalAct of 2014, makes theLivestock Forage Program(LFP) and LivestockIndemnity Program (LIP) per-manent programs and providesretroactive authority to covereligible losses back to Oct. 1,2011. LFP provides compensation

to eligible producers who suf-fered grazing losses due todrought and fire. LIP providescompensation to livestock pro-ducers who suffered livestockdeath losses in excess of nor-mal mortality due to adverseweather and attacks by ani-mals reintroduced into thewild by the FederalGovernment or protected byFederal law, including wolvesand avian predators.

USDA is determined tomake implementing the live-stock disaster programs a toppriority and plans to open pro-gram enrollment by April 15,2014. As USDA begins imple-

menting the livestock disasterassistance programs, produc-ers should record all pertinentinformation of natural disasterconsequences, including: Documentation of the numberand kind of livestock that havedied, supplemented if possibleby photographs or videorecords of ownership and loss-es Dates of death supported bybirth recordings or purchasereceipts Costs of transporting livestockto safer grounds or to moveanimals to new pastures

Feed purchases if supplies orgrazing pastures are destroyed Crop records, including seedand fertilizer purchases, plant-ing and production records Pictures of on-farm storagefacilities that were destroyedby wind or flood waters Evidence of damaged farmland. Many producers still have

questions. USDA is in theprocess of interpreting FarmBill program regulations.Information will be providedonce the enrollment period isannounced. In the meantime,producers can review the LIPand LFP Fact Sheets. Thanksfor your patience as USDAworks diligently to put FarmBill programs into action tobenefit the farmers and ranch-ers of rural America.

New Farm Bill provides disaster assistance programs

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