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SundayJuly 17, 2016

No. 26 of the 128th Year

Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420

The second of Kingfish-er’s “Fourth Fridays in the Park” is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 22, at Kingfisher Park.

Like last month’s fami-ly-friendly event, the eve-ning features food trucks, music, dancing, inflatables and lawn games all night long, plus scheduled events including:

7-7:45 p.m. – food demon-strations.

7:30 p.m. – Tai Chi.8 p.m. – Walk in the park.8:30 p.m. – Yoga in the

park.New features this month

include:•Oklahoma Blood Insti-

tute Blood Mobile, which will be collecting donations from 6-9 p.m.

•Lions Club Mobile Health Unit, conducting free health screenings from 6:30-9 p.m.

•Rowing simulator from the Chesapeake Boat House.

•Child fingerprinting booth provided by the Mul-tidisciplinary Child Abuse Response Team.

The night will end with a free outdoor movie project-ed at dark – Finding Nemo.

Fourth Fridays are spon-sored by the Kingfisher County Healthy Living Co-alition, through the county health department and To-bacco Settlement Endow-ment Trust.

The events are designed to encourage families to get active and enjoy the out-doors together.

For that reason, parents are asked not to drop chil-dren off at the park unat-tended.

Second Fourth Friday July 22

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A handful of local ath-letes will represent their re-spective schools next week at the annual Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State games.

The games will be con-tested July 25-29 in the Tulsa area.

The week starts with the OCA Hall of Fame Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Sunday July 23 at the Southern Hills Marriott.

Golf is the first event of the week on Monday morning and the games are capped Friday night with football.

Cashion has the most local representatives this year as three Wildcats will play their final high school contests.

Vaughn Raney will rep-resent the Small West in boys’ basketball and Karson Maple will do the same in the girls’ basketball games. Josh Hampton will suit up for the West in football at wide receiver.

Hennessey will have a pair of football players who will be Hampton’s team-mates for the West.

Standout Tabor Johns was selected as a running back and Jake Schovanec learned this past week he was picked up for the offen-sive line.

Kingfisher High School will have two athletes at the games and both are former state champions.

Triston Cortez, a two-time state champ in wres-tling, will represent the Small West in that sport.

Mason Overstreet, also a two-time state champ, will tee it up for the West in golf.

Following is a list of events, their times and lo-cations:

Golf - 8:30 a.m. July 25 at Cherokee Hills Golf Club

Swimming - 6:30 p.m. July 25 at Jenks High School

Baseball - 4:30 p.m. (small school) and 7 p.m. (large) July 26 at J.L. John-son Stadium, ORU.

Tennis - 5:30 p.m. July 26

Local athletesin state games

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT — Kingfisher Police Officer Fred Albers captured this impressive lightning strike from the front porch of his residence at 802 Clark Drive shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday Amazingly, this is not the strike that knocked out Kingfisher’s power. [Photo Courtesy Fred Albers]

Wild summer storm brings outages, rainA wild thunderstorm brought

wind, rain, lightning and hail plus an extended power outage for the Kingfisher electric customers Thurs-day night and early Friday morning.

“We had lightning hit four poles, knocking off power to the entire town about 11:30 p.m.,” City Man-ager Dave Slezickey said.

The lightning caused a number of issues which electric crews scram-bled to address and were able to restore power initially after an hour and a half.

Then power was off again in some areas for an additional two hours until crews found another culprit, a burned out “jumper” at Third Street and Bowman Avenue.

“A jumper connects overhead lines to each other, usually where they turn a corner,” Slezickey said. “This one was hidden by an insu-lator on top of the pole and in close proximity to trees and would have been tricky to spot immediately in the daytime, much less after dark in the middle of a blackout.”

Thunderstorms accompanied by high winds dumped welcome rain in widely varying amounts on Kingfisher County Thursday night and early Friday morning.

Kingfisher received the heaviest rainfall, 2.2 inches, according to local Weather Observer Steve Loftis.

The rain brought Kingfisher’s July total to 2.66 inches and the year-to-date total to 15.64.

The Mezonet site at the farm of Rodney Mueggenborg, west of King-fisher, registered 2.1 inches.

Other rainfall amounts reported in the county included .3 inch at Cashion, 1.7 inches at the Jack Witt

residence, and 1.3 inches at both the Mike Witt and Clint Bailey residenc-es, northwest of Dover, .75 inch at the Cecil Ebers residence at Hennessey (although residents in Hennessey Proper said they didn’t think they

got that much), .25 inch at the Jon Cochran Sr. residence in Loyal, .4 inch to 1.4 inches reported at the CHS Elevator in Okarche by farmers drinking coffee there, 2.0 inches at Okarche Grain and Feed, west of

Okarche, and 2.5 inches at the Kristy Washington residence on the North Canadian River south of Okarche Grain and Feed.

A Mezonet map showed addition-

JULY SILVER SPADE winners Dennis and Lora Baker stand in front of their neat lawn and gardens at the corner of Chisholm Drive and Oak Street. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

When you’re located on one of the most visible cor-ners in town, you’ve got no choice but to maintain an impeccable lawn.

Fortunately, Dennis and Lora Baker are up to the task.Their home at the corner of Chisholm Drive and

Oak Street earned this month’s Silver Spade from the Kingfisher Lions Club.

The huge corner lot gets lots of attention during the school year from parents lined up on both sides for morning and afternoon drop-off and pick-up of students at Gilmour Elementary School directly across the street.

In their 14th year at the location, the Bakers had quite a bit of work to do to get the manicured lawn into shape when they first moved in.

“It was loaded with Bradford pear trees that just created a mess everywhere,” Dennis said.

They took all the trees out and replaced them with just a few ash trees, surrounded by circular blooming flower beds.

Colorful, tidycorner lot wins July Silver Spade

Rising on former agricul-tural land on the northeast quarter of a section of land one mile north and five miles east of Dover is a gas plant with a multitude of pipelines leading to it.

Kingfisher County com-missioners have been grant-ing road crossing permits for months for pipelines, many of which lead to the Dover area facility.

Identifiable features on the site include a large white building, smaller, apparently temporary buildings, likely used for office space for those working on the facili-

ty, a string of what could be large electrical generators, a couple of tall towers, one of which flares excess gas and two long metal storage tanks.

Those passing the area say it appears that work is going on at the facility on a 24-hour-a-day basis.

While the facility has risen in the middle of the Kingfisher County prairie, little information about the operation has been dissemi-nated locally.

The legal description of the plant site is the Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Town-ship 18 North, Range 6 West.

Although representatives of the operation in Houston,

Texas, have not respond-ed to calls from the Times and Free Press regarding the progress on the plant, a website called Kingfish-er Midstream announces that “ARM Midstream, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asset Risk Management (ARM), has partnered with London-based Highbridge Principal Strategies LLC to build a cryogenic processing plant, natural gas gather-ing system, and crude oil gathering system in Oklaho-ma’s STACK (Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher Counties) play.”

A posting on July 12 said

that the “Kingfisher Mid-stream Lincoln” natural gas plant went into full operation earlier this month.

The project provides area producers with the infra-structure and takeaway ca-pacity required to grow pro-duction in a highly competi-tive environment, according to the web site.

The initial capital invest-ment for the Kingfisher Mid-stream Project was listed on the web site at $200 million, which will provide a major spike in ad valorem tax revenue for Dover schools and the county general fund when it goes on county tax rolls.

The 100 or so vehicles parked in the parking lot indicate significant employ-ment.

Plans for the Kingfish-er Midstream system in-clude more than 100 miles of low- and high-pressure gas gathering pipelines, more than 15,000 horsepower of compression, and a newly constructed cryogenic (low temperature) processing facility with initial process-ing capacity of 60 million cubic feet of gas per day. The system design is configured strategically to serve STACK producers in Kingfisher County, as well as Blaine,

Dover area natural gas plant operationalARM MIDSTREAM constructed this cryogenic processing plant and natural gas gathering system northeast of Dover. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

By Gary ReidKT-FP Publisher Emeritus

with quite a bit of manufacturing and meat and produce processing plants scattered outside the city limits.

We moved Conner out of this apartment, met his two roommates and took them out to dinner.

Alex was a chemistry major in the local university. He grew up in the Murcia area.

Luigi was from Peru. He was finishing his master’s degree in business and was going to return to Peru within the next 30 days. They were both very nice and respectful young men. Both could speak English, by the way.

Conner found that interesting, because he said the entire time he lived with them, they only spoke Spanish.

He became good friends with both young men, and traveled to other European cities with them on several occasions.

We got rid of the stress-causing rental car in Valencia, which is a seaside city up the coast from Murcia. It’s within the Cataluna province, and is another very old city with much of the old castle entry gates and walls intact.

El Cid, the warrior king who drove the Muslims from the area, has several statues in his honor throughout the city.

I remembered the story of El Cid from the Charlton Heston movie from the early 1960s that I later watched on TV as a kid.

Like most movies, the reality was quite a bit different. Turns out El Cid worked for the Muslim rulers for quite

a while too and he died peacefully in his sleep, not going out to defeat the Muslims in the final battle as a corpse, strapped to his saddle, lance in hand, by his wife ,Sofia Loren. The castle used as the backdrop for the filming of the movie still stands.

Valencia had nice museums and is a large Mediterra-nean port city.

We took a bike tour through the old riverbed that me-anders through the city’s center.

The river was re-routed in the 1970s and the city fathers trans-formed the ugly empty riverbed into a beautiful wide green space filled with trees , lawns, ball parks, bas-ketball courts and open air arenas. It’s a beautiful area and the res-idents take full advan-tage of the r i v e r b e d ’ s beauty.

BarcelonaO u r l a s t

stop was Bar-celona. It ’s k n o w n a s the Paris of Spain.

L o c a t -ed only 90 miles south of the French border, the city has an e x t r e m e l y upscale air. H i g h - e n d name-brand stores and shops were everywhere. Mary liked that part.

The big draw to Barcelona is La Segrada Famalia, the gigantic Catholic cathedral of which construction began in 1883 and is still on-going today.

It’s the masterpiece of architect genius Antonio Gaudi, a Barcelona native who is known world-wide for his na-ture-based organic style of architecture.

I knew a little bit about his work before, but after seeing his work up close, I have to agree that he certainly thought outside the box.

His work on the cathedral basically consumed his entire adult working life until his death in 1926, when he was run over by a street car while return-ing back to the cathedral after going to morning church ser-vices at an-other church.

His inspi-ration was to make archi-tecture come a l ive as a force of na-ture and his work is col-orful, beauti-ful, inspiring and one-of-a-kind.

T h e y ’ v e been working on the church for well over 125 years now.

The site is also unique because it’s being toured by tens of thousands of tourists every day while actual new construction and renovation construction is going on at the same time. It’s a busy place.

For over 100 years, many have said the cathedral would never be completed, but it’s almost there. 2026 is now the projected date for completion. I’ve never seen anything like it. It is indeed inspiring.

There are also at least two homes and a park built by Gaudi within the city and they are equally beautiful to behold, but not of the monumental and grandiose stage as the cathedral.

By all accounts, Gaudi was a very humble, devoutly religious and soft-spoken man.

Food and HealthAll the cities started to look the same in many ways.

They all had wide boulevards with stores and shops ev-erywhere. And sidewalk restaurants or “Tapas Bars” were

castle of extensive size, surrounded by a river and built upon steep rock walls for defense.

Toledo is filled with high and low end shops for tour-ists, and it’s a steep climb to the top. The top area is a museum with neat information on who controlled the city during specific eras and what improvements were made at the time.

GranadaMadrid and Toledo were on the high plains in the

center of Spain. We took a train trip to Granada and encountered our

first pine trees and there was actually still some snow on the higher peaks to the south of Granada.

On the train ride there, we saw that almost all the land being used to grow olives. Olive trees must survive in semi-arid areas, because that’s all we saw: Miles and miles of cultivated olive groves.

Granada is a multi-million population center of the Andalusia province. The city rests in a valley dominated by the castle-palace of the ruling Moors of old called Alhambra. It is situated on a cliff on the southern side of the city.

When the Christians swept the Moors out, the palace was so beautiful it was not razed to the ground to stamp out the Muslim imprint. Instead they kept it mostly as it was and simply changed everything that was Muslim to Christian in theme.

Alhambra went through some rough times. In the early 1800s when the British occupied Granada, the Duke of Wellington (of Waterloo fame) had to roust out chickens, pigeons and gypsies from the palace grounds when he made it his headquarters and from that point forward, the restoration of the palace grounds began.

Murcia, Mula and Valencia

From there, we went by rental car to see where Conner lived and worked over the past nine months or so.

Driving a car in Spain is much like the U.S. on the highways, but much unlike the U.S. in the cities.

Most of the streets in the cities are one-way, and very narrow, as the cars came hundreds of years after the buildings of the city were built.

All intersections are round-abouts, which is a circle with streets shooting off in all directions. All the cities have streets running north south, east and west, but also big boulevards running diagonally, through it all, which creates even more confusion.

I’m pretty sure the car I was driving was the only one which was in the outside lane when turning off the round-abouts. All the others simply shot across from the inside lanes, causing much cursing, horn-honking and all-around rage.

We bought the insurance that said if I had a wreck, we could walk away, no matter what. Luckily we didn’t have to discover if that type of insurance was of any value.

We survived all the one-way streets and round-abouts. I only had to make my own road - across a sidewalk - once: To get to the totally-unmarked rental car return

parking lot at the train s t a t i o n l o c a t e d in down-town Va-l e n c i a . If you’re going to rent a car

in Spain , there are times you

will have to be bolder than you might think is prudent!We drove to Conner’s school in Mula, a small city in

which the area school is situated. The school district is comprised of about 20,000 residents.

Mula is about 20 miles west of Murcia.C o n n e r

called the En-glish depart-ment teachers in advance and they were all waiting for us when we ar-rived. Surpris-ingly to Mary and I , there were a total of four English teachers in the one school, including one department head. Obviously, learning English is of high priority in Spain.

We visited with them, the principal and superinten-dent for quite a while and t h e y w e r e all sad to see Conner leave.

N e x t we went to C o n n e r ’ s a p a r t m e n t i n d o w n -town Murcia, which is sort of a work-ing-class city

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By Barry ReidTimes-Free Press Publisher

My wife Mary and I went to Spain for nine days in June to rendezvous with our oldest son, Conner, who had been working as an English teacher in the town of Mula, which is located in the southeast area of the nation.

He was contracted to teach there from September 2015 through May 2016 as part of a teacher exchange program that was in place at the time.

Conner is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma school of architecture and he earned a minor degree in Spanish. Because he likes to travel, he thought this would be the perfect opportunity, upon graduation, to sharpen up his Spanish speaking skills before coming back to the United States to pursue a career in his profession full-time.

Mary and I thought this was the perfect time to see Spain with a one-year native who spoke the language, so off to Spain we went.

We asked Conner to schedule our cities and stops, with the stipulation that we visited where he lived and worked and we would be able to visit with his co-workers and friends there.

Our trip started at Madrid, went to Toledo and G r a n a d a by train; then from G r a n a d a to Murcia, Mula and Va l e n c i a by rental car ; and then on to Barcelona by t ra in f o r t h e final two days of the trip.

We met Conner in Madrid, the Spanish capital, and spent two days there, which included a 45-minute train ride to Toledo and back to see the old castle there.

Even if you don’t have an extensive Spanish historic background, one quickly begins to realize that the major cities all feature huge castles and Catholic cathedrals.

And even those without much size always have a castle within sight somewhere in the vicinity.

The castles of the larger cities are well-maintained and cared for, while many of those situated in or near smaller cities are in various states of ruin or neglect.

The history of Spain is very long and complex. Much of it involves bloody conquest.

In a nutshell, it’s like this: The indigenous people survived and seemed to mostly get along there for many centuries. Then sea-going traders from the city states of Phoenicia (current Lebanon area) landed from the Med-iterranean side and settled a trade port in what is now Valencia.

Then the Romans came along and discovered silver, conquered most of the Iberian peninsula, and set up mines, settlements and cities throughout the country.

After the fall of the western Roman empire, the penin-sula went through a period of back and forth squabbles and wars between a myriad of feudal states and king-doms before the Moors saw the possibilities and swept up from North Africa and made much of the country Muslim-controlled.

Then the Christian kings and queens of the north band-ed together and drove the Muslims from the peninsula and, through a series of other wars, the modern state of Spain came into being.

The most recent blood was shed in a civil war in the 1930s, between those with communist left-leaning ideas for how the country should be run, and those with tradi-tionalist right-leaning ideas, who believed in preserving the traditions of church and family.

General Francisco Franco was the man in charge of the Fascist regime that came into being once the communists were defeated, and he ruled the country as a dictator from the 1930s into the mid-1970s when he died.

His major accomplishment seems to be that although his was a fascist regime, he refused to align with Hitler and Mussolini during the World War II and the county was able to remain neutral and out of harm’s way during the war.

Franco strongly believed Spain should be self-suffi-cient as a nation and the country was basically isolated in terms of trade, commercial and social interaction with western nations during his tenure.

Upon Franco’s death, Spain became a republic. National general elections were being held during our

visit to determine what party coalition would be in power. Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on who you

talked to - there was no decisive outcome, which was also the way it was when elections were held the previous year. So, when we left, no party was in power. Many we visited with thought it would be a good idea for things to stay that way, because no new legislation was better than new bad legislation.

MadridWe l a n d e d

in Madrid, met C o n n e r a n d toured the city. Like all of Spain, the weather was fairly hot, but very dry. Most of the country we visited was semi-arid, much like New Mexico and West Tex-as. However, the weather was much nicer, because the evenings were cool, there was very little humidity and even in the middle of the day, if you were in shade, you were very cool and comfortable, as there’s a cool breeze most every day.

ToledoWhen I

was grow-ing up I al-ways heard o f To l e -d o - m a d e steel as be-ing the best. Obviously the rest of the world did too, be-

cause knife and sword

shops dominate in the city. The part we saw was the city within the old castle walls. It’s a beautiful well-preserved

Seven Spanish cities in nine daysPublisher recounts trip to bring son home after year in Spain

Conner and Mary at a park in the center of Madrid.

Conner and Mary near the river bridge gate entry to a castle in Toledo.

Above is the Al-hambra castle and palace as seen from the streets of Granada and to the right is the in-terior.

Conner with the Mula school’s English department teachers.

Roommates Luigi (far left) and Alex (far right) with Conner and Mary.

C o n n e r and Mary in front of one of the old gated entries in Valencia.

The La Segrada Familia exterior (above) and interior (below) in Bar-celona.

The exterior (above) and interior (be-low) of Casa Batilo, which was de-signed and built by Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona.

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Katie Bomhoff of Okarche High School was recently a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, Mass.

Bomhoff, who will be a sophomore at Okarche this fall, took part in the congress, which is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields, on June 25-27.

The stated purpose of the event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists and, after the event, to pro-vide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal.

Bomhoff was nominated by Dr. Robert Darling, the medical director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to represent Oklahoma based on her academic achievement, leadership

potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.

She is the daughter of Steven and Suzanne Bomhoff of Okarche and the granddaughter of Mike and Nancy Bomhoff of Okarche and Terry and Ann Brown of Marlow.

During the three-day Congress, Bomhoff joined students from across the country and heard Nobel Laure-ates and National Medal of Science winners talk about leading medical research; was given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what to expect in medical school; witnessed stories told by patients who are living medical miracles; and learned about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and med-ical technology.

“This is a crucial time in America when we need more doctors and medical scientists who are even better prepared for a future that is changing

exponentially,” said Richard Rossi, executive director, National Acade-my of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists.

“Focused, bright and determined students like Katie Bomhoff are our future and she deserves all the men-toring and guidance we can give her.”

The academy offers free services and programs to students who want to be physicians or go into medical science.

The National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists was founded on the belief that it must identify prospective medical talent at the earliest possible age and help these students acquire the necessary experience and skills to take them to the doorstep of the career.

After graduating high school, Bomhoff plans to attend Baylor Uni-versity in Waco, Texas.

KATIE BOMHOFF of Okarche with Dr. Richard Rossi of the National Academy of Future Physi-cians and Medical Scientists. [Photo Provided]

Okarche’s Bomhoff selected to attend medical congressMeets with peers, professionals in Massachusetts

The 46th Ellyson family reunion was held Sunday, July 10, at the VFW Building in Crescent.

The families of Joe Elly-son hosted the event with a luncheon, games, pictures and visiting.

Those attending were George and Wynemia Fike of Bethany; Charles Elly-son, Camie, Keaton, and Kayla of Bartlesville; Roy and Joann Oliver, Matt and Haley of Cashion and guest, Linda of Dover; Jim Bob and Shannon Dunn and Braiden, Cherokee Wilson, Rugar and guest Billy, all of Crescent; Jimmie Yeoman and Paige of Dover; David and Heather Frenchman, Shelbrie and Tommy of Dewey; Ernestine Payne, Kari and B.J. Bender, Hattie and Titan, Paul and Tammy Wehrenberg, and Della, all of Edmond; Sherry Mason of Guthrie; Winston and Mary Ellyson of Hennessey; Jimmie and Glenda Elly-son, Robert and Wilma Wehrenberg, Wayne and Clairetta Lowe, Jeannetta Kottwitz, Donetta Edge, Glanice McAdoo, Jesse and Sarah Maxwell, Garrett, Gavin and Grant, Colt and Christina Bragg, and Ruth Ellyson all of Kingfisher.

Also, Joe and Patricia Pursell, Jocelyn Tettamanti, Joleigh and Jansen, Jason and Nicole Pursell, Ally-son, Kate and Mallory, all

Mark Andrews, left, and Jeff Hyatt were the guest speakers of the Kingfisher Rotary at the club’s meeting last Tues-day. The two presented an informative game for the membership to play called Cooperative Jeopardy, in which the members were asked to answer questions on electricity usage and consumption in Okla-homa and across the nation. Hyatt narrated, while Andrews provid-ed technical assistance with projection and PowerPoint equipment. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]

of Las Vegas, Nev.; Pamela Newbrey and Caylin, of Moore; Holly Fike of Mid-west City; Brian Fike of Eu-less, Texas; Sam and Tracy Adcock of Mustang; Dan and Waynette Alig, Natalie and Erin, of Okarche; Chris-topher Fike, Hannah and Jo-seph, Karen Lowe, Sean and

Leah Strickland, Knox and Rowe, all of Oklahoma City; Robert and Karen Ellyson of Piedmont; and Phillip and Darlene Ellyson of Purcell.

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The FBI chief said Hillary Clinton should not be pros-ecuted for her “extremely careless” handling of classified information outside the government computer system.

The chief took no questions after reading his prepared statement.

Would anyone have asked this question:Were perjury charges considered because the presiden-

tial candidate lied under oath?On either count, Hillary gave clear evidence that she is

not fit for the office of president.Erick Erickson, developer of the RedState web site,

listed the following examples in a recent burst of spleen regarding the (as yet) uncrowned queen and her obvious lying under oath:

HILLARY CLINTON: I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two.

FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY: Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain.

CLINTON: I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them. We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work related emails and deliver them to the State Department. At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails.

COMEY: The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private email domain.

CLINTON: I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

COMEY: From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classi-fied information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the emails were sent.

CLINTON: But whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is.

COMEY: With respect to the thousands of emails we found that were not among those produced to State, agen-cies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level.

CLINTON: Well, my personal emails are my personal business, right?

COMEY: With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clin-ton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-re-lated e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.

The lack of ability and character in modern candidates for high public office stands in stark contrast the the thoughts and values of founding fathers,

We recently ran across a list of quotes lifted from speech-es, letters and essays by our learned Founding Fathers (the gentlemen based their actions on Christianity and study of the Bible):

In fact, Samuel Adams (the “Father of the American Rev-olution” and a signer of the Declaration of Independence) specifically recommended a study of the Scriptures in order to understand the basis of America’s struggle against a tyrannical king, explaining that:

The Rights of the Colonists as Christians. . . . may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promul-gated in the New Testament.

How about perjury charges?

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By Fred A. Kingery October 1987: The U.S.

stock market collapsed 23 percent in one day, the largest one-day drop on record. For the rest of that year economists debated how deep the depression would be in 1988. There was no depression in 1988. The reason was that for the first time in central banking history there was a coor-dinated global response to a visible economic crisis. The leadership attached to that response was provided by U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker III.

June 1989: In China a student demonstration referred to as “Tiananmen Square” happened. That demonstration initiated a declaration of martial law by China’s leadership. Over 300,000 communist troops were brought to bear on the demonstrators. The square was cleared of all demon-strators, with hundreds and perhaps thousands of students killed. That event marked the end of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms and solidified those reforms as the basis for a remarkable Chinese economic expan-sion that has lasted from that moment to the present.

November 1989: The Ber-lin Wall came down. That event marked the end of Soviet domination of East-ern Europe. It also paved the way for a unification of Germany for the first time in over 40 years. One of the key issues surrounding Ger-man unification was how to merge the East German Mark with the West German Mark. Most economists at the time declared an appropriate exchange rate would be anywhere from a minimum of four to as much as 10 East German Marks for one West German Mark. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl decided that the exchange rate would be one to one. This was seen as a gift from West Germany to East Germany. It also marked the formation of an economic unification that has been prosperous and strong for all Germans from that day to the present.

December 1991: Boris Yeltsin took the leader-ship role from Mikhail Gorbachev. In short order Yeltsin dismantled the Sovi-

et Union and the Cold War was officially ended.

Viewed collectively as a cluster of events over a short span of four years, these events registered a 9.0 on the Richter scale of geo-political/economic events. The Reagan/Thatcher eco-nomic reforms of the 1980s coupled with this cluster of events moved the global economic tectonic plates and launched the begin-ning of a powerful wave of economic growth that was sustained right up to the Great Recession of 2008-09.

There is always an ending after a beginning, eventual-ly. The pressing question before us now: Are we at the end of an era of sustained economic growth? To an-swer the question consider the following:

1. Following the recent British vote to leave the Eu-ropean Union (Brexit), the pound sterling went into a free fall with lows against the dollar not seen since 1985. A falling currency can mean a lot of things but in this case there is a strong chance that a falling pound sterling means that the British economy may be in recession soon.

2. $10 trillion (out of approximately $60 trillion) of global sovereign debt is currently trading at a neg-ative yield. The balance of this outstanding sovereign debt is trading at historically low yields of slightly more or less than 1 percent. In an extreme example, a recent 50-year maturity of Swiss sovereign debt traded at a negative yield. There is no precedent for this – none. A consequence of extreme historically low interest rates is that investors that require long-term safe cash flow returns will have none. Savers, retirees, and their pension-fund investment managers will suffer the most.

3. Two of the largest banks in the world (Duet-sche Bank, Credit Suisse Bank), one German and the other Swiss, have stock pric-es currently trading at his-torical lows that represent extreme financial stress. This circumstance can be coupled with the entire Italian banking system in desperate need of a capital infusion that will not be

coming from private-sector capital markets. Making matters worse for Italy’s banks are Eurozone rules that preclude the Italian government from back-stopping their banks with Italian taxpayer funding. The Italian banks alone have about $400 billion of non-performing loans which represent a third of all recognized Eurozone non-performing loans and one-fifth of all outstanding consumer loans in Italy. The recent Brexit vote has spotlighted the EU banking institutions in a position of being the Achilles heel of the entire global financial system.

4. There are upcoming elections in Italy, German, Netherlands, and France between October 2016 and May 2017. Election results in any one of these coun-tries could be construed as being a referendum on membership in the EU. If a political party hostile to the EU claims a victory, then in all probability that party will dump the Euro. That political event or a failure of any major bank in Germany, Switzerland, or Italy could easily end the EU and the Euro. In turn, the world could easily collapse into a global depression.

5. If the trip-wires men-tioned above fail to cause an economic calamity then there is always the debt minefields of China and Japan coupled with massive global debt accumulation in the rest of the world waiting in the wings to do the job.

Amid all of this, is there a canary in the coal mine? Yes, the canary in the coal mine is the current rising price of gold. After a five-year correction off the high price in 2011, the current trend is solidly up since the be-ginning of this year. It is an indication that the world’s economic tectonic plates are moving once again.

Only this move will mark the end of an era rather than the beginning of one.

– Fred A. Kingery is a self-employed, private-eq-uity investor in domestic and international financial markets from New Wilm-ington, Pa., and a guest commentator for The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.

Congressional Black Caucus corruption

By Michelle MalkinIf Black Lives Matter,

then why have entrenched members of the Congres-sional Black Caucus spent more time enriching them-selves than taking care of their neglected constitu-ents?

Too many social justice protesters are busy throw-ing shade, rocks, bottles, concrete blocks and vicious death threats at police offi-cers of all colors trying to keep the peace.

Instead of moaning about “#WhitePrivilege,” I invite radical racial identity war-riors to join me in taking on the black political elites sell-ing out their people. Help expose the most crooked

members of the caucus of Congres-sional Black Corruption:

Corrine B r o w n : T h i s 1 2 -term Dem-

ocrat from Florida re-

ceived a 24-count federal indictment last week while her Congressional Black Caucus colleagues tried to drown out the news with diversionary gun-control theatrics. Brown and her chief of staff are charged with creating a fraudulent education charity to collect over $800,000 in donations from major corporations and philanthropies for their own private slush fund be-tween 2012 and early 2016.

The director of the hoax group, dubbed One Door for Education, Inc., pleaded guilty last year to fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors say two relatives of Brown and her chief of staff steered tens of thousands of dollars in cash deposits to their ac-counts. The charitable con-tributions paid for lavish galas, NFL tickets, concert luxury box seats, golf tour-naments and apparently Brown’s tax bills.

Despite raising nearly a million bucks, Brown’s “charity” only issued two measly educational scholar-ships for minority students. So while shamelessly claim-ing this week to be a martyr akin to the murdered Dallas police officers and victims of the Orlando jihad, Brown is embroiled in a sordid scandal that exploited black children’s lives to line her own pockets.

You can’t blame righty or whitey this time, Crooked Corrine.

Chaka Fattah: This 11-term Pennsylvania Demo-crat was convicted in late June on 23 charges of rack-eteering, money laundering and fraud, along with four other co-defendants. His son was sentenced earlier this year to a five-year prison term after being found guilty of 22 counts of separate federal bank and tax fraud charges related to his misuse of business loans and federal education contracts to pay for designer clothes, massive bar tabs and luxury cars.

Fattah the Elder’s crimes are tied to schemes to re-pay an illegal $1 million campaign loan. Like his rotten apple of a son, Fattah siphoned off federal grant money and nonprofit funds (including donations to his educational foundation – sound familiar?) to pay off political consultants.

The con artists inside your own communities are your own worst enemies.

Eddie Bernice Johnson: 12-term Democrat from Dallas, similarly helped steer thousands of dol-lars in Congressional Black Caucus Foundation college scholarships for four family members and two of her top aide’s children in violation of the nonprofit’s rules.

Maxine Waters: This 13-term Beltway swamp queen from California and past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus walked away with a slap on the wrist from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minori-ty-owned OneUnited Bank.

The banks’ executives donated $12,500 to Mad Maxine’s congressional campaigns. Her husband, Sidney Williams, was an

End of an era? Global economy’s tectonic plates moving again

Once every four years about this time many newspapers en-dorse their pick for President. You’ll never see me doing that, for a variety of reasons. First, I don’t own the periodical you’re reading and I wouldn’t want to run off any readers with my choice. The second reason is that I’m disgusted with the whole selection process. Thirdly, why would anyone want my opinion when my very own wife doesn’t listen to what I say? The fact that anyone would listen to me shows just how far we’ve fallen in this country.

The process has become so expensive and corrupt I believe we should change the way we select our President. Instead of debates I think we should bring back duels, which were common in this country until the mid 1800’s when states began outlawing them. I don’t know why, it seems to be a good way to clean out the riffraff.

The only thing most of our citizens know about duels is that Vice President Aaron Burr once killed a former Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, in one. The modern day equiv-alent would be Joe Biden killing John Connally. This would be very hard to do because Mr. Connally has been dead for over 20 years, but I couldn’t think of any other Treasury Secretary, which shows just how much I know about what transpires in Washington DC.

Duels usually took place at first light in an out-of-the-way location so as to avoid the cops, CNN reporters and any Face-

Choose your weapon

It’s the PittsBy Lee Pitts

book friends a duelist might have. Usually the two adversaries would stand back to back, walk a predetermined number of paces, turn and fire. I’ve always wondered about the prospect of one guy pulling up a few paces short and pulling the trigger. What’s the winner going to say to the dying loser, “Whoops. I’m sorry but I thought you said four paces!”

For the squeamish amongst you I should point out that the person challenged to a duel had the choice of weapons and the list was not limited to firearms.

In one case the chosen weapon was sausages. That’s right, the German Chancellor Bismarck once picked a fight with Pro-fessor Rudolf Virchano who selected sausages, one normal and the other fully loaded with deadly trichinosis. The professor explained that Bismarck could choose one sausage and eat it and he’d eat the other. Bismarck reportedly begged his way out of the fight... “Ha, ha I was just kidding.”

The point is, politicians could select BB guns, rocks, bows and arrows, meat cleavers, water balloons, fists, feathers, knives, whips, you name it. Can you imagine the TV ratings if Pres-idential debates erupted into wars involving water pistols,

paint guns or leaf blowers? All these political buffoons have made us suffer for so long, now it’s our turn and we want car-nage. Which brings up another point. Each duelist had to have a “second” who was usually a surgeon. This would be a great part for Dr. Ben Carson to play, whose campaign ended because he was presumed to be too quiet, nice, sincere and intelligent to ever win. 

If the debates between Chris-tie, Rubio, Trump and Hilary versus Bernie would have in-volved fully charged firemen’s hoses dialed up to 250 psi I’d have paid almost anything to watch. Can’t you just envision Hilary’s pants suit or Trump’s hair being blown off? On second thought, let me clear my head of that mental image. With the money from pay-per-view from such battles we could start to pay off the national debt and ABC, PBS, MSNBC and CNN would go broke bidding for the TV rights, which is another BIG extra added benefit.

Several times in the debates I saw candidates who looked like they wanted to kill another candidate. Well guess what, now they can. Let’s see how many of them want to serve their country now! Even better, what I’d really like to see are duels between these political pundits who squirm out of the sewer every four years. Can’t you just envision a World Wrestling-style main event between Carl Rove and James Carvel, or Lanny Davis versus Judge Jeanine?

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investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnit-ed. As stockholders, they profited handsomely from their relationship with the bank.

And vice versa. After Waters’ office personally intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008, the financial institu-tion received $12 million in federal TARP bailout money – despite another government agency con-cluding that the bank op-erated “without effective underwriting standards” and engaged “in speculative investment practices.” Top bank executive Kevin Cohee squandered money on a company-financed Porsche and a Santa Monica, Cali-fornia, beachfront mansion. After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie, OneUnit-ed’s stock in the govern-ment-sponsored enterprises plunged to a value estimat-ed at less than $5 million. Only through Waters’ in-tervention was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and its then-Secretary Hen-ry Paulson.

Waters’ government cro-nyism earned her a “Most Corrupt member of Con-gress” designation from the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Then there’s Alcee Hast-ings, the 12-term Florida corruptocrat impeached while a federal judge in 1989 for making false statements and producing false docu-ments in a 1983 criminal trial accusing him of seeking a $150,000 bribe. He went on to win a seat in Congress in 1992 and used his position to enrich his various lady friends, including paying one girlfriend-turned-con-gressional deputy district director more than half a million dollars in salary and another he calls a “staff assistant” to accompany on his endless junkets abroad.

Those three are just the start. There’s Texas’ Sheila Jackson Lee and the Medi-care fraud racket involv-ing a local hospital in her district; Greg Meeks and his $400,000 earmark for a fake health clinic in New York City and Caribbean resort jaunts underwritten by convicted financier Allen Stanford; and Wisconsin’s Gwen Moore and her lu-crative friends and family. And, of course, the ethics violations, shady business deals and tax troubles from New York’s Charlie Rangel deserve their own encyclo-pedia.

My message for BLM? Put down your black power fists and weapons. Give the “#BlueLivesMurder” and “Fry ‘em up like bacon” chants a rest. Aim your outrage at self-serving black leaders and their abject failure to improve black people’s lives.

Michelle Malkin is a se-nior editor at Conservative Review. Her email address is malkinblog@gmail.com.

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The Founders clearly be-lieved that they were not in rebellion to God’s ordained institution of civil govern-ment; they were only re-sisting tyranny and not the institution itself.

Rev. Jacob Duché (a sup-porter of the British) argued from the Bible in favor of the American position, ex-plaining:

“Inasmuch as all rulers are in fact the servants of the public and appointed for no other purpose than to be “a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well” [c.f., Rom. 13:3], whenever this Divine order is invert-ed – whenever these rulers abuse their sacred trust by unrighteous attempts to injure, oppress, and enslave those very persons from whom alone, under God, their power is derived – does not humanity, does not reason, does not Scripture, call upon the man, the cit-izen, the Christian of such a community to “stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ….hath made them free!” [Galatians 5:1] The Apostle enjoins us to “sub-mit to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake,” but surely a submission to the unrighteous ordinances of unrighteous men, cannot be “for the Lord’s sake,” for “He loveth righteous-ness and His countenance beholds the things that are just.”

Despite the Americans embracing what they be-lieved to be a fully-support-ed Biblical position, some British leaders nevertheless specifically accused the Americans of anarchy and rebellion – a charge to which John Quincy Adams force-fully responded:

[T]here was no anarchy. . . . [T]he people of the North American union and of its constituent states were as-sociated bodies of civilized men and Christians in a state of nature but not of anarchy. They were bound by the laws of God (which they all) and by the laws of the Gospel (which they nearly all) ac-knowledged as the rules of their conduct. (emphasis added)

Declaration signer Francis Hopkinson (also a church musician and choir leader) agreed:

Q. It has often been said, that America is in a state of rebellion. Tell me, therefore, what is Rebellion? A. It is when a great number of people, headed by one or more factious leaders, aim at deposing their lawful prince without any just cause of complaint in order to place another on his throne.

Q. Is this the case of the Americans? A. Far other-wise.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hos-tility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

– (Thomas Jefferson, Let-ter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, ME 10:173. September 23, 1800.)

The deliberations of the

Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anx-ious citizens gathered out-side Independence Hall when the proceedings end-ed in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadel-phia asked Benjamin Frank-lin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesi-tation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” (Benjamin Franklin)

“We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little partial, local interests, our projects will be con-founded and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate in-stance, despair of establish-ing government by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, or conquest.”

– (Benjamin Franklin) “We live in dangerously

troubled times. The val-ues that steadied mankind in earlier times are be-ing tossed away. We must not ignore Moroni’s words when he saw our day and said, ‘Ye [must] awake to a sense of your awful situ-ation’”

(Boyd K. Packer, General Conference Address, April 2004.)

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents.”

– (James Madison, Let-ters and Other Writings of James Madison, 1:163. 1785.)

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the govern-ment of any other.”

– (John Adams, October 11, 1798.)

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Jon’s ‘Ramblins’Another tragedy!

Five police officers killed outright, along with several wounded, some of those civilians. Folks, this is hap-pening all too often! These people were killed by snip-ers, from overhead several stories up, in downtown Dallas. I won’t go into the gruesome details, everyone has seen them on the news. According to reports, one sniper was killed at the scene and the rest, as far as we know, are in custody. The dead was identified as a former army reservist, he had homemade explosives – were they really home-made or were they man-ufactured?) at his place of residence, and we are being told what kind of weapons they (the snipers) used and I would be willing to bet that those weapons are untraceable or were legally purchased, by whom, will be probably be a dead end search.

Did you even notice that the organizers of the protests were of the upper middle class? A safe bet would be that there is some-one, somewhere in the back-ground out of the limelight with a blank check prodding these folks along!

In a previous writing I talked about the rich elite billionaires of the world backing these movements, Soros, Bloomberg, the Roth-schilds, etc. Why these peo-ple want to rule the world is beyond me.

These empires always crash and burn. The Roman empire, the czarist empire, Hitler’s Empire, and Sta-lin’s empire: they work for awhile and then go down in flames. God didn’t create them and they won’t sur-vive in His world!

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Another co-op is shut-ting down, becoming the 15th to do so and bringing the total number of federal loans given to the failed nonprofit insurers to more than $1.5 billion.

Oregon’s Health Co-Op announced last week it will no longer be able to continue operating and will be shutting down. The insurance company is the

third in the state to struggle financially and Oregon’s second co-op, following Health Republic Insurance of Oregon, to close its doors.

Oregon’s Health Co-Op’s closure affects more than 20,000 consumers liv-ing in the state, and custom-ers have been advised to select new plans by July 31.

“It is with great sadness that I announce Oregon’s Health Co-Op is shutting down its doors immediate-

ly,” Phil Jackson, the co-op’s chief executive officer, said in a statement. “The board of directors agreed that it is in the best interests of our members and community that we wind down our operations.”

(Ed. Note: The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)

Oregon’s Health Co-Op was one of 23 co-ops

that launched under Obamacare. The co-ops, or consumer operated and ori-ented plans, were intended to create competition and choice in areas of the coun-try where consumers had few options.

The 23 co-ops – not in-cluding Vermont’s co-op, which never opened its doors – received $2.4 billion in startup and solvency loans from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The 15 co-ops that have since closed their doors received more than $1.5 billion in loans. The fed-eral government awarded Oregon’s Health Co-Op specifically $56.6 million.

The Centers for Medi-care and Medicaid Services has not yet said if the money given to the failed co-ops will be recouped.

Oregon’s Health Co-Op lost $18.4 million in 2015, the bulk of which the non-profit insurer attributed to high medical claims from its policyholders. The co-

op also pointed to money it owes the federal gov-ernment through its risk adjustment program as delivering the final blow to its bottom line.

The risk adjustment pro-gram redistributes money from insurers with healthy customers to those with sicker, most costly custom-ers.

Officials with Oregon’s Health Co-Op expected to receive $5 million from the risk adjustment program. But late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the co-op would instead owe $900,000.

“The result is a sudden deterioration of the com-pany’s financial position that cannot be sustained and the company must stop doing business,” the co-op said in an announcement to customers.

O n e o t h e r c o - o p , HealthyCT, also closed its doors because of money it owes through the risk adjustment program. Two others, Maryland’s Ever-green Health and Illinois’ Land of Lincoln Health, have since taken action to prevent the collection of the risk adjustment payments.

Health policy experts expect more co-ops to col-lapse in the wake of the federal government’s an-nouncement.

Just eight of the 23 co-ops that launched remain.

Obamacare’s closed coops, the state where they operated, amount of fed-eral loans and enrollment, follow in that order:

Community Health Al-liance Mutual Insurance Co., Tennessee, $73,306,700, 31,109.

C o O p p o r t u n i t y Health, Iowa-Nebraska, $145,312,100, 91,477.

Health Republic Insur-ance of New York, New York, $265,133,000, 209,136.

Kentucky Health Co-opera t ive , Kentucky, $146,494,772, 51,665.

Louisiana Health Coop, Louisiana, $65,925,396, 20,578.

Colorado HealthOp, Colorado, $12,335,129, 80,282.

Health Republic Insur-ance Co., of Oregon, Ore-gon, $60,650,303, 13,328.

Archives Mutual Insur-ance Co, South Carolina, $87,578,208. 71,594.

Meritus Health Part-ners, Arizona, $93,313,233, 556,019.

Consumers Mutual Insurance of Michigan, $71,534,300, 26,813.

InHealth Mutual, Ohio, $129,225,604, 21,821.

HealthyCT, Connecti-cut, $127,980,768, 39,768.

Oregon Health Coop, Oregon, $56,656,900, 21,847.

T o t a l : l o a n s , $1,550,885,578 and enroll-ment 800,868.

15th Obamacare co-op has collapsed; Here’s how much each failed co-op got in taxpayer-funded loans

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~ INDEX ~Acreages For Sale .....................39Antiques, Art & Collectibles .....43Auctions .....................................27Autos & Accessories ...................7Autos Wanted ............................30Bicycles & Motorcycles ..............9Business Opportunities ..............2Business Property .....................20Cattle, Livestock & Poultry .......16Child Care.....................................3Farm Equipment ........................11Farm Machinery .........................17Farms For Sale or Rent .............40Fencing .......................................34Firewood .....................................41For Rent ........................................5For Sale ........................................6For Sale or Lease.......................37Furniture & Household Items ...10Garage Sales & Yard Sales .......28Hay-Grain-Feed & Seed.............18Health Items, Vitamins ..............19Help Wanted .................................1Horses & Tack ............................13Houses, Apts. For Rent .............23Houses, Apts. For Sale .............24Lawn & Garden ..........................12Leases ........................................33Loans ..........................................35Lost & Found .............................29Miscellaneous ............................42Mobile Homes ............................25Mobile Home Spaces.................26Oil & Gas Information ................44Pets & Supplies .........................14Real Estate .................................22Recreational Vehicles..................8Services ......................................38Special Notices ..........................31Sportsman Items .......................15Steel Buildings ...........................32Trucking......................................36Wanted ........................................21Work Wanted ................................4

NOW HIRINGKitchen Staff & CashiersApply In Person At

Double D’s701 N. Main•Kingfisher

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Apply in PersonContact Pam at

First shAmrockcAre center

1415 s. main, kingfisher405-375-3157

LPNs~all shifts~

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CNAs

Seaton Construction• Roofing • Remodeling

• Siding • WindowsReferences Available

~ CASHION ~368-1500 • 433-2529 or 2548

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RENOVATION, COMMERCIAL& RESIDENTIAL

828-4282 • 368-7203

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For Sale

AGRICULTURAL LIME

Certifi ed Scales On SiteCall Zac

JACOBS FARMSOkarche

405-255-4186 (18)

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Hwy. 81 North • Kingfisher • 375-5349Authorized

Honda, Briggs & stratton and KoHler dealer

We HAve HondAGenerAtors & WAter

PumPs In stock!

We service all makes oflawn and garden equipmentWe Also Have Parts Available For

Kawasaki and Kubota Small Engines(12)(tfc)

• air conditioning • heating • brakes• shocks • timing belts • fuel filters• fuel injection service • hoses• transmission service • belts• wheel bearings• oil changes• oxygen sensors• cooling system service• electrical • tune-ups

Palmer’s Auto

368-035320 Years Experience!

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WeAre Your

Chain Saw & TrimmerHEADQUARTERS

Chain Saws with12” to 30” Bars in Stock

Stihl Oilomatic Chain• Chromed cutters • Pre-stretched

• Oilomatic Grooves • Larger RivetsThe Best Saw Chain Value Available!

Full Selection of

STIHL®

starting at $129.99

WE CARRY HONDA TILLERSSales • Service

Parts & Accessories

ROTHER BROS., INC.Hwy 81 N., Kingfisher

375-5349

Trimmers

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(405) 375-4220(38)(tfc)

1417 S. Main, Kingfisher

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

405-226-3125 LLC

FREE QUOTESFULLY LICENSED & INSURED

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1009 S. Main • Kingfisher(405) 375-4207

Commercial & Residential

★ Factory Trained★ Factory Authorized★ All Major Brands

Serving Kingfisher County Since 1989

375-3636 (38)

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• S E R V I C E •

GARAGE DOORS

R&M ServicesSales, Installation & Repairs

Mark & Richard York375-4357 (4)(S-tfc)

Proud to be serving Kingfisher & surrounding communities for

over 40 years.

405-375-3340License # 3561 (38)(Sun-tfc)

FARM EQUIPMENT?ADVERTISE IN THE

Times & Free Press Classifieds: 405-375-3220

LOOKING TO BUY OR SELL

LIMITED TIME ONLY!!

New 2 Bed, 2 Bath$29,900

3 Bed, 2 Bath...$32,900During our

Made in the Shade SaleUp to $4000 in

LOWES Gift Cards& FREE STATEWIDE

DELIVERY!!405-262-3900

www.claytonelreno.com

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Walter BuildingCenter

Your Full-LineLumber Yard!

Hrs: M-F 7:30-5:30Sat. 8-12

416 N. Main • Kingfisher

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CHISHOLMTRAIL STORAGEUnits Starting At $25 Per Month

Call 375-57181801 S. Main (5

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Help Wanted 1HELP WANTED: Feed mill operator,

apply in person at Wheeler Bros. [6-22-tfc]

WANTED: WAITRESS at Elk’s Lodge, contact Bob at 405-368-1355. [7-20-2c]

THE FEDERATED Church is in need of a nursery worker beginning Sunday, August 7th, approximate hours will be from 8:45 to 11:15, pay is $10 per hour with a minimum of 4 hours paid, please contact the church office if you are interested, 375-3336 or info@federatedchurch.tv. [7-20-2c]

Help Wanted 1

For Rent 5

Autos & Accessories 7

Lawn & Garden 12

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 discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familia status or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. 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 advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Real Estate 22

Mobile Homes 25

Call

405-627-0271

3 Bed, 1 Bath,2 Living, Fireplace,

1 Car Detatched

$61,000($5,000 down payment)~Owner wiLL FinanCe~

Why RentWhen You Can Own?

Community Pool • FishingHunting • 4-Wheeling

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112 MockingbirdTwin LakesSports Club

PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS (10)

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LAMPS REPAIRED

110 N. Main • 375-3242

CRANDALL & SANDERSQuick Turn-Around & Low Prices

Furniture & Household Items 10

Services 38

Work Wanted 4

~ FOR SALE ~Good cleanwheat straw.Small square bales

$5.00 per baleRodney Mueggenborg(405) 368-8079

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Looking For Rentersor a Home to Rent?

— Post It In —The Times & Free Press

Classifieds!

405-375-3220www.kingfisherpress.net

Looking For Rentersfor your Building?

Want to RENTA Building?

Looking For Rentersor a Home to Rent?

— Post It In —The Times & Free Press

Classifieds!

405-375-3220www.kingfisherpress.net

Looking For Rentersfor your Building?

Want to RENTA Building?

$50,000+ Per YearLate Model Equipment. Regional Runs 95% OK & TX.Home 1-2 times/wk. Weekends OFF!! $1500 Sign-On!

Family Medical! Paid Vacation & Holidays!

1 yr driving exp., Class A CDL Required.Some Flatbed preferred, but will train!

Call Jon: 877-317-3223darylthomasontrucking.com (1)

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$50,000+ Per YearLate Model Equipment. Regional Runs 95% OK & TX.Home 1-2 times/wk. Weekends OFF!! $1500 Sign-On!

Family Medical! Paid Vacation & Holidays!

1 yr driving exp., Class A CDL Required.Some Flatbed preferred, but will train!

Call Jon: 877-317-3223darylthomasontrucking.com

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New Customer in YOUR area!$50,000+ Per Year

Late Model Equipment. Regional Runs 95% OK & TX.Weekends OFF!! $1500 Sign-On!

Family Medical! Paid Vacation & Holidays!2 yrs driving exp., Class A CDL Required.

Some Flatbed preferred, but will train!

Call Jon: 877-317-3223darylthomasontrucking.com (1)

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Hay-Grain-Feed-Seed 18AGRICULTURAL LIME and gypsum,

delivered and spread, 80% ECCE, R. Schweitzer Gypsum & Lime, 405-263-7967 or 405-263-4472. [8-3-tfc]

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...is accepting applications for Licensed HVAC

Technicianin Kingfisher.

For more information and to apply, go to Pioneer Telephone’s website at www.ptci.com and click on employment opportunities.

EOE/Minority/Female/Disability/Veterans

Work Wanted 4NICE CONSTRUCTION: General con-

tracting/remodeling, 375-5097 or 368-7325. [3-16-tfc]

Special Notices 31FREE HOME Bible study: Send name/

address to: P.O. Box 164, Kingfisher, OK, 73750. [3-10-tfc]

Fencing 34THOMPSON FENCE, stockade, chain

link, split rail, free estimates, call 262-4150. [6-2-tfc]

Services 38S&H TREE Trimming: Tree trimming,

removal, shaping, pruning, stump grinding, insured, has bucket truck, free estimate, senior citizen discount, 580-822-3208 or 580-822-5660. [8-14-24p]

Employment Office:Hennessey, OK 121 N Main St

Call us at 405-853-7071www.SeaboardFoods.com

Career Center877 JOB PORK

NOW HIRING!!Animal Production

$11.50/Hour, 49 Hours/WeekERM Team Member

(Hennessey area)$12.50+/hour depending on experience. 50+ hours/week

$500 Sign On Bonus

Great Work Environment!Excellent Benefits!

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Houses & Apts. For Rent 23HOUSES FOR rent: 405-314-5542.

[1-4-tfc]FOR RENT: 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 104

Thompson Drive, call 405-519-1090. [7-17-4p]

FOR RENT: 3 bedroom brick, CH/A, large basement, 1 bath, storage building, 405-368-5556. [7-10-tfc]

HOUSE FOR rent: Okarche, taking applications, small 2 bedroom, 1 bath, CH/A, $585 per month, $585 deposit, 12 month lease, 405-202-9397. [7-17-2p]

FOR RENT: nice 3 bedroom 1/12 bath, brick, CH/A, garage, $895 per month, 361-4029. [7-20-2p]

FOR RENT: Okarche trailer in country, 2 bedroom with CH/A, $550 per month, call 405-368-8894. [7-17-tfc]

FOR RENT: 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $500 month, $500 deposit, 368-8038. [7-17-tfc]

...is accepting applications for Server / Systems

Technician in Kingfisher.

For more information and to apply, go to Pioneer Telephone’s website at www.ptci.com and click on employment opportunities.

EOE/Minority/Female/Disability/Veterans (1)(7

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Seeking applicantfor full-time

Bookkeeper PositionResponsible for all aspects

of company division books. Experience with

computerized accounting systems a plus. Microsoft

Word and Excel experience required. Competitive wage

and benefit package with holidays, vacations, medical & life insurance, short term

disability and pension.Send resumé to:

R&D MAINTENANCE SERVICES INC.

P.O. Box 815Hennessey, OK 73742Equal Opportunity Employer

ACCOUNTING CLERK

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...is accepting applications for Part-Time Customer

Care Representativesin Kingfisher.

For more information and to apply, go to Pioneer Telephone’s website at www.ptci.com and click on employment opportunities.

EOE/Minority/Female/Disability/Veterans

Weber & Sons

We have over20 years of experiencein the industry.We do all types of home repairs and remodeling including windows, doors, siding, decks, fences and many more. Specializing in ceramic tile.

Call for a fast, FREE ESTIMATE

today!

405-538-9488

Custom Tile & Remodeling

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Farm Equipment 11FOR SALE: 1971-1972 John Deere

4320 tractor, new Goodyears, clutch starter, battery and paint, good solid tractor that runs real nice, approxi-mately 7,200 hours, asking $15,000 obo, Bob 405-570-9539. [7-20-2p]

Mobile Homes 25SPECIAL GOVERNMENT Program: Own

land, family land, zero down, don’t prejudge your credit, E-Z qualify by phone, $2,000 furniture package with purchase, homes starting at $26,500 and up w.a.c., 405-631-7600 or 405-206-3693. [10-28-tfc#880]

OKLAHOMA CLASSIF IED ADVERTIS ING NETWORK

HELP WANTED

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LEGAL SERVICES

SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY CLAIMS Saunders & Saunders Attorneys at Law. No Recovery - No Fee. 1-800-259-8548 DRIS

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-270-9140 to start your application today!

DONATE

DONATE your car, truck or boat to heritage for the blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. CALL 1-800-294-0718

MEDICAL SERVICES

STOP OVERPAYING for your pre-scriptions! Save up to 93%! Call our licensed Canadian and International pharmacy service to compare prices and get $15.00 off your first prescrip-tion and FREE shipping. 1-800-375-1025

A PLACE FOR MOM. The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE/no obliga-tion. CALL 1-800-257-4142

LIFE ALERT. 24/7. One press of a button sends help FAST! Medical, Fire, Burglar. Even if you can’t reach a phone! FREE Brochure. CALL 800-207-5713.

GOT KNEE PAIN? Back pain?

Shoulder pain? Get a pain-relieving

brace at little or NO cost to you.

Medicare patients Call Health Hotline

Now! 1-800-795-3385

INTERNET OFFERS

FAST INTERNET! HughesNet Satellite

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Speeds to 15 mbps. Starting at $59.99/

mo. Call for Limited Time Price. 1-800-

624-7845.

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3 year price guarantee & get Netflix

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380-5901

SwITCH TO DIRECTV and get a FREE

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AT&T U-VERSE Internet starting at

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ADVERTISE STATEWIDE

ADVERTISE STATEwIDE! For more

information or to place an ad contact

(405) 499-0020 or tollfree in OK at

1-888-815-2672.

OCAN071716

for more information on statewide advertising, call 1-888-815-2672

OKLAHOMA CLASSIF IED ADVERTIS ING NETWORK

for more information on statewide advertising, call 1-888-815-2672

HELP WANTED

25 DRIVER TRAINEES NEEDED! Become a driver for Stevens Transport! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! New drivers earn $800+ per week! PAID CDL TRAINING! Stevens covers all costs! 1-888-748-4133. drive4stevens.com

LEGAL SERVICES

SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY CLAIMS Saunders & Saunders Attorneys at Law. No Recovery - No Fee. 1-800-259-8548 DRIS

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-270-9140 to start your appli-cation today!

DONATE

DONATE your car, truck or boat to heritage for the blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care Of. CALL 1-800-294-0718

INTERNET OFFERS

FAST INTERNET! HughesNet Satellite Internet. High-Speed. Avail Anywhere. Speeds to 15 mbps. Starting at $59.99/mo. Call for Limited Time Price. 1-800-624-7845.

DISH TV 190 channels plus Highspeed Internet Only $49.99/mo! Ask about a 3 year price guar-antee & get Netflix included for 1 year! Call Today 1-800-380-5901

SwITCH TO DIRECTV and get a FREE Whole-Home Genie HD/DVR upgrade. Starting at $19.99/mo. FREE 3 months of HBO, SHOWTIME & STARZ. New Customers Only. Don’t settle for cable. Call Now 1-800-358-5513

AT&T U-VERSE Internet starting at $15/month or TV & Internet starting at $49/month for 12 months with 1-year agreement. Call 1-800-435-2915 to learn more.

MEDICAL SERVICES

STOP OVERPAYING for your prescriptions! Save up to 93%! Call our licensed Canadian and International pharmacy service to compare prices and get $15.00 off your first prescription and FREE shipping. 1-800-375-1025

A PLACE FOR MOM. The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE/no obligation. CALL 1-800-257-4142

LIFE ALERT. 24/7. One press of a button sends help FAST! Medical, Fire, Burglar. Even if you can’t reach a phone! FREE Brochure. CALL 800-207-5713.

GOT KNEE PAIN? Back pain? Shoulder pain? Get a pain-relieving brace at little or NO cost to you. Medicare patients Call Health Hotline Now! 1-800-795-3385

ADVERTISE STATEWIDE

ADVERTISE STATEwIDE! For more information or to place an ad contact (405) 499-0020 or tollfree in OK at 1-888-815-2672.

OCAN071716

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NEEDED: CLASS ATANK TRUCK DRIVER

Calumet & Watonga YardsImmediate Openings for Class A, CDL Truck Driver w/Tanker Experience!! Seeking ONLY those who: •HaveaTankerEndorsementandTankerExperience •HaveaMinimumof3yearsClassACDLExperience •HaveaSafeWorkHistory&CleanMVR •Aremotivatedtocometowork&dependable!

Mustbewillingtoworkovertimeandaflexibleschedule,includingNightshift.Homedaily!!

Company Benefits Include• Health & Dental Insurance

• 401k w/Company Match • Vacation & Holiday Pay

MINCO23NWMainSt.

CALUMET13900W122nd

WATONGA120TaylorRoad

Offices located in Minco,Calumet and Watonga

Call 405-352-5959for more information

www.firestonetrucking.com

NOW HIRING!!

Or come by our main office in Minco, OK to fill out an application

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FOR SALE BY OWNEROne-of-a-kind Home

and 6 Beautiful Acres• 3200+ sq.ft. Home with 4 bedrooms• 20x40 cement swimming pool• 5 Outbuildings• Spring-fed pond (has not gone dry since built over 50 years ago)• Many large, beautiful trees

1/2 Mile West ofChesapeake Field Office

Don Robison: 405-538-7259Shown by Appt. Only

$500,000.00

(7-31-5Sun)

DOVER PUBLIC SCHOOLSPO BOX 195 • 201 N. TAYLOR

DOVER, OK 73734 • 405-828-4206

Dover Public Schools is accepting bids on 4 fuel storage tanks. They can be viewed at Dover Public Schools 201 N. Taylor in Dover. Bids should be mailed to Dover Public Schools, Box 195 Dover, OK 73734, or may be hand delivered to the superintendent’s office at 201 N. Taylor. Bids will be opened on July 22, 2016 at 12:00 PM at the Dover Public Schools superintendent’s office at 201 N. Taylor in Dover, OK.

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DRIVER POSITIONSavailable for experienced CDL Drivers in our

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NIGHT DRIVER POSITIONSavailable for experienced CDL Drivers in our

Kingfisher and Watonga, OK locations.

  Previous Oilfield experience and valid CDL with accept-able driving record required. Excellent Benefits! Home Daily!

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Superior Energy Services and its subsidiaries are EqualOpportunity Employers/Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

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SONICDRIVEIN.COM/JOBS

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Applications

COMINGSOON

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Legal notices(Published Sunday, July 17, 2016, in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press)

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: NEWFIELD EXPLORA-TION MID-CONTINENT INC.RELIEF SOUGHT: HORIZONTAL DRILLING AND SPACING UNITLEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 18 NORTH, RANGE 9 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201602845-TNOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PUR-CHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS INCLUDING Axiom Mining & Min-erals, LP; Pelham, Inc., successor to E.E.C. Oil and Gas Company., succes-sor to Vulcan Energy Corporation. c/o L.R. French, III; Lawrence Benenson; Trey Resources, Inc.; Blue Mountain Farms, Inc.; J.E. Hancock, deceased c/o James R. Hancock; James R. Hancock; CRM Energy, Inc.; Shelly F. Marek; Leona P. Evans, Trustee of the Leona P. Evans Inter Vivos Trust dated December 16, 1992; Zeus Investment Company; Samuel B. Kritzstein; Nor-bert Siegfried; Centaur Resources, Inc.; Mary Surry, deceased c/o Sharon Walberg; Sharon Walberg ; June Wohl ; Wanda Jean Willms, Trustee of the Ralph W. Wilms Trust ULWT of Ralph W. Willms, deceased; Eagle Rock Mid-Continent Asset, LLC, Formerly Crow Creek Energy, II, LLC; Jerry Coffey; Paul Knecht; Gary Nightengale; Jerome Trupp; The Termo Company, successor to Continental Illinois Energy Development Corporation; Continental Resources, Inc.; Lane Financial, Inc.; Helms and Underwood; Janet Lynne Asbill, Debra Joyce Bott and Julie Kay Henson, Co-Trustees of the Jackson Family Trust; Payrock Energy, LLC; Partnership Properties, Co.; Partner-ship Properties, Co. c/o Petro-Lewis Funds, Inc. as General Partner; Partnership Properties, Co.; Valerie A. Bregenzer, Successor Trustee of the Gene Hill Living Trust dated January 16, 1987; Craig A. Hill and Shannon R. Campbell as Co-Trustees of the Alfred Hill Testamentary Trust for the benefit of Paul Bruce Hill c/o Craig A. Hill; Mark Bregenzer and Valerie Bregenzer Re-vocable Living Trust; Lani Hill Revoca-ble Living Trust; Durango Exploration, LLC; Exxon Mobil Corporation c/o XTO Energy Inc.; Harold D. Hill Living Trust, dated 31st day of December, 1990, a revocable trust, Harold D. Hill, Trust-ee; L.C.B. Resources, Inc.; Charles Briscoe; James R. Briscoe; Vicki Wint; Longsdon-Schulte, LLC; Toni Kirtley, a/k/a Toni Kirtley Nobles; Ron Clough; Windfall Limited Partnership; Gerald Eugene Stebens & Wahneta Ruth Ste-bens, Trustees of the Gerald Eugene Stebens & Wahneta Ruth Stebens Revocable Trust dated September 28, 1994 c/o Wahneta Stebens; Marc E. McDonald & Linda M. McDonald, Trustees of the Reiss Family Trust dated March 22, 2002; Jerry O. Pope and Mary Ann Pope, Joint Tenants; V & A Management, LLC, an Oklahoma Limited Liability Company; First Chris-tian Church of Centralia Missouri as a probable heir; Barbara Jean Porter ; Deborah M. Stidham, Terry M. Stidham and Toby C. Barners, Trustees of the Buffington Family Trust dated July 28, 2004 ; Bank of America Corporation, formerly Boatmen’s First National Bank of Oklahoma, as Trustee of the Myrtle L. Davis Trust under Trust Agreement dat-ed May 17, 1968; M & M Families Trust under Trust Agreement dated February 3, 1992 c/o James Adam Marr, Trust-ee; M & M Families Trust under Trust Agreement dated February 3, 1992 c/o James Adam Marr, Trustee; Mary Jean Flynn Bennett, dec’d c/o Stacy L. Bennett-Smith; Stacy L. Bennett-Smith c/o Stacy L. Bennett-Smith; Sonya D. Wright; Norval I. Sommer, deceased

Maxine Munns Sommers as prob-

ably heir c/o Robert Ramey; Mary E. Lorenz, Successor Trustee of the Verne L. Lorenz Revocable Trust dated February 26, 1994; Mary E. Lorenz, Trustee of the Mary E. Lorenz Revo-cable Trust dated February 26, 1994; Dixie Oil & Gas Co., LLC c/o Ralph Ellis, Managing Member; Mary Rozelle; Nina Sue Lansford, a/k/a Susie Lansford; Kathi Hittle; Lonnie Hill; Sheryl Lynn Dobrinski; Pamela Sue Wright; Connie Jo Williams; Bobby Jay Dobrinski; Brian D. Hill Revocable Living Trust; Gary D. Hill or Mary K. Hill; Lehndorff-Lawrence Partnership; Consolidated Oil and Gas, LLC; Alice Lorraine Hill & Rainey Styczinski Co-Trustees of the Alice Lorraine Hill Living Irrevocable Trust; Floyd Eugene Porter and Barbara Jean Porter, husband and wife as joint tenants; ALN Resources Corporation; Endowment Energy Partners, LP c/o Fairfield Partners Management Attn: Daniel Cummings; Steven I. Rubin and Martin H. Schneider, Trustees c/o Robert D. Alin; Steven I. Rubin and Martin H. Schneider, Trustees; Paloma Partners IV, LLC; Mary E. Lorenz; DiJo Partners, Inc.; Mary Julien; Eddie Buffington; and all persons if, living or if deceased, their known and unknown successors, and all corporations, existing and if dissolved, its known and unknown successors and all other persons having an interest in the lands covered hereby, particularly in Kingfish-er County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant requests that the Commis-sion enter its order extending Order No. 652342 insofar as it established a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit for the Woodford common source of supply underlying Section 17, Town-ship 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma to include Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma; and establish a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit for the Mississippian common source of supply underlying Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. The Mississippian common source of supply is a conventional reservoir and as such the completion interval for a horizontal well in a horizontal well unit shall be located not less than 660 feet from the boundary of the 640-acre horizontal unit. The Woodford common source of supply is an unconven-tional reservoir and pursuant to OAC 165:10-29-2 the completion interval of a horizontal Woodford well drilled in a horizontal well unit shall be located not less than 165 feet from any north/south unit boundary and not less than 330 feet from any east/west unit boundary.

Centaur Resources, Inc. operates the Lorenz 1 well, API #073-22393, located in the SW/4 NW/4 Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma which is producing from the Chester and Mississippi common sources of supply.

L.C.B. Resources, LLC operates the Mollie Hill 1 well, API #073-30142, located in the NE/4 SW/4 Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma which is producing from the Chester common source of supply.

The horizontal well unit may exist concurrently with any previously formed non-horizontal drilling and spacing unit, or any part thereof, and each such unit may be separately developed in that a well may be drilled into, completed in and produce hydrocarbons from the same common source of supply in each such concurrently existing unit with production from such well to be governed by and allocated pursuant to the applicable unit. Therefore, the following orders are not being vacated:

Order No. 174062 insofar as it established an 80-acre standup drilling and spacing unit for the Unconformi-ty-Chester common source of supply underlying the W/2 SW/4 Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West,

Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.Order No. 58429 as consolidated

by 62417 insofar as it established 80-acre standup drilling and spacing units for the Mississippi Solid common source of supply underlying Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the relief requested herein may be made effective prior to the issuance of this Order.

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

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Corporation Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 South Houston, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74127, at 8:30 a.m. on the 8th day of August, 2016 and that this Notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that in the event this cause is uncontested, the Applicant, its representatives, witnesses and other proponents of the Applicant may appear and testify by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to partic-ipate 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 all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, BARNES LAW, PLLC, 1648 S. Boston Ave., Ste. 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/382-8686 or Janice Hemphill, Newfield Explora-tion Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Ste. 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74172, 918/582-2690.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMABOB ANTHONY, ChairmanDANA L. MURPHY, Vice ChairmanJ. TODD HIETT, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED this 11th day of July, 2016.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELLSecretary of the CommissionLPXLP

(Published Sunday, July 17, 2016, in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press)

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: NEWFIELD EXPLORA-TION MID-CONTINENT INC.RELIEF SOUGHT: EXCEPTION TO OAC 165:5-7-6(h)LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 18 NORTH, RANGE 9 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201602846-TNOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PUR-CHASERS AND TAKERS OF GAS INCLUDING Axiom Mining & Minerals, LP; Pelham, Inc., successor to E.E.C. Oil and Gas Company., successor to Vulcan Energy Corporation. c/o L.R. French, III; Lawrence Benenson; Trey Resources, Inc.; Blue Mountain Farms, Inc.; J.E. Hancock, deceased c/o James R. Hancock; James R. Hancock; CRM Energy, Inc., subsidiary of Capital Risk Management Corporation; Shelly F. Marek; Leona P. Evans, Trustee of the Leona P. Evans Inter Vivos Trust dated December 16, 1992; Samuel B. Kritzstein; Norbert Siegfried; Mary Surry, deceased c/o Sharon Walberg; Sharon Walberg ; June Wohl ; Wanda Jean Willms, Trustee of the Ralph W. Wilms Trust ULWT of Ralph W. Willms, deceased; Eagle Rock Mid-Continent Asset, LLC, Formerly Crow Creek Energy, II, LLC; Jerry Coffey; Paul Knecht; Gary Nightengale; Jerome Trupp; Payrock Energy, LLC; L.C.B. Resources, Inc.; Charles Briscoe; James R. Briscoe; Vicki Wint; Toni Kirtley, a/k/a Toni Kirtley Nobles; Ron Clough; DiJo Partners, Inc.; and all per-sons if, living or if deceased, their known and unknown successors, and all cor-porations, existing and if dissolved, its known and unknown successors and all other persons having an interest in the lands covered hereby, particularly in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant filed an Application, Cause CD No. 201602845-T, requesting that a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit be established for the Mississippian common source of supply underlying Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Centaur Resources, Inc. operates the Lorenz 1 well, API #073-22393, located in the SW/4 NW/4 Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma which is producing from the Chester and Mississippi com-mon sources of supply; and that L.C.B. Resources, LLC operates the Mollie Hill 1 well, API #073-30142, located in the

NE/4 SW/4 Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher Coun-ty, Oklahoma which is producing from the Chester common source of supply.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that OAC 165:5-7-6(h) requires that no order of the Commission authorizing a horizontal well unit that overlies any existing well or portion of an existing drilling and spacing unit producing from the same common source of supply will become effective until at least 50% of the ownership having a right to drill in each such well and/or drilling and spacing units consents in writing to the horizontal well unit by filing such written consent with the Court Clerk of the Commission in such cause. Request for such consent must be sent by re-stricted mail to the owners having the right to drill in any existing well and/or drilling and spacing unit producing from the same common source of supply as the proposed horizontal well unit and Applicant has complied with this requirement.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant has been unable to obtain 50% approval of the ownership in the Lorenz 1 and Mollie Hill 1 wells and in the existing drilling and spacing units in writing for a horizontal well unit for the Mississippian common source of sup-ply as required by OAC 165:5-7-6(h).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant requests that the Commis-sion enter an order excepting Applicant to the 50% approval of ownership requirement to a horizontal well unit as stated in OAC 165:5-7-6(h).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause be set before an Administra-tive Law Judge for hearing, taking of evi-dence and reporting to the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Corporation Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 South Houston, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74127, at 8:30 a.m. on the 8th day of August, 2016 and that this Notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that in the event this cause is uncontested, the Applicant, its representatives, witnesses and other proponents of the Applicant may appear and testify by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to partic-ipate 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 all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact Dave Goodwin, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Suite 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172, 918/582-2690 or Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, BARNES LAW, PLLC, 1648 S. Boston Ave., Suite 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74119, 918/382-8686.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMABOB ANTHONY, ChairmanDANA L. MURPHY, Vice ChairmanJ. TODD HIETT, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED this 11th day of July, 2016.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, Secretary of the CommissionLPXLP

(Published Sunday, July 17, 2016, in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press)

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: NEWFIELD EXPLORA-TION MID-CONTINENT INC.RELIEF SOUGHT: POOLING LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 18 NORTH, RANGE 9 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201602847-TNOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PUR-CHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS, INCLUDING Axiom Mining & Minerals, LP; Pelham, Inc., successor to E.E.C. Oil and Gas Company., successor to Vulcan Energy Corpo-ration. c/o L.R. French, III; Lawrence Benenson; Trey Resources, Inc.; Blue Mountain Farms, Inc.; J.E. Hancock, deceased c/o James R. Hancock; James R. Hancock; CRM Energy, Inc., subsidiary of Capital Risk Management Corporation; Shelly F. Marek; Leona P. Evans, Trustee of the Leona P. Evans Inter Vivos Trust dated December 16, 1992; Samuel B. Kritzstein; Norbert Siegfried; Mary Surry, deceased c/o Sharon Walberg; Sharon Walberg ; June Wohl ; Wanda Jean Willms, Trust-ee of the Ralph W. Wilms Trust ULWT of Ralph W. Willms, deceased; Eagle Rock Mid-Continent Asset, LLC, For-merly Crow Creek Energy, II, LLC; Jerry Coffey; Paul Knecht; Gary Nightengale; Jerome Trupp; Continental Resources, Inc.; Payrock Energy, LLC; Partnership Properties, Co.; Partnership Properties, Co. c/o Petro-Lewis Funds, Inc. as Gen-eral Partner; Partnership Properties, Co.; Mary E. Lorenz, Successor Trustee of the Verne L. Lorenz Revocable Trust dated February 26, 1994; Mary E. Lorenz, Trustee of the Mary E. Lorenz Revocable Trust dated February 26, 1994; Dixie Oil & Gas Co., LLC c/o Ralph Ellis, Managing Member; Marc E. McDonald & Linda M. McDonald, Trustees of the Reiss Family Trust dat-ed March 22, 2002; Exxon Mobil Cor-poration c/o XTO Energy Inc.; Paloma Partners IV, LLC; DiJo Partners, Inc.; Harold D. Hill Living Trust, dated 31st day of December, 1990, a revocable trust, Harold D. Hill, Trustee; Windfall Limited Partnership; Gerald Eugene Stebens & Wahneta Ruth Stebens, Trustees of the Gerald Eugene Stebens & Wahneta Ruth Stebens Revocable Trust dated September 28, 1994 c/o Wahneta Stebens; Jerry O. Pope and Mary Ann Pope, Joint Tenants; V & A Management, LLC, an Oklahoma Limited Liability Company; First Chris-tian Church of Centralia Missouri as a probable heir; Barbara Jean Porter ; Deborah M. Stidham, Terry M. Stidham and Toby C. Barners, Trustees of the Buffington Family Trust dated July 28, 2004 ; Bank of America Corporation, formerly Boatmen’s First National Bank of Oklahoma, as Trustee of the Myrtle L. Davis Trust under Trust Agreement

dated May 17, 1968; M & M Families Trust under Trust Agreement dated February 3, 1992 c/o James Adam Marr, Trustee; M & M Families Trust under Trust Agreement dated February 3, 1992 c/o James Adam Marr, Trustee; Mary Jean Flynn Bennett, dec’d c/o Sta-cy L. Bennett-Smith; Sonya D. Wright; Norval I. Sommer, deceasedMaxine Munns Sommers as probably heir c/o Robert Ramey; Mary Rozelle; Nina Sue Lansford, a/k/a Susie Lansford; Kathi Hittle; Lonnie Hill; Sheryl Lynn Do-brinski; Pamela Sue Wright; Connie Jo Williams; Bobby Jay Dobrinski; Gary D. Hill or Mary K. Hill; Lehndorff-Lawrence Partnership; Consolidated Oil and Gas, LLC; Alice Lorraine Hill & Rainey Styczinski Co-Trustees of the Alice Lorraine Hill Living Irrevocable Trust; Floyd Eugene Porter and Barbara Jean Porter, husband and wife as joint tenants; ALN Resources Corporation; Endowment Energy Partners, LP c/o Fairfield Partners Management; Ste-ven I. Rubin and Martin H. Schneider, Trustees c/o Robert D. Alin; Steven I. Rubin and Martin H. Schneider, Trust-ees; Vulcan Energy Corporation. c/o L.R. French, III; Lucy Carpenter Bly; Mary Julien; Eddie Buffington; and all persons if living or if deceased, their known and unknown successors and all corporations existing and if dissolved its known and unknown successors and all persons having an interest in the lands covered hereby, particularly in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant requests that the Com-mission pool the interests and adjudi-cate the rights and equities of oil and gas owners in the Mississippian and Woodford common sources of supply underlying the 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit described as Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 9 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma and designate Applicant or some other party as operator of the proposed well and all subsequent wells drilled in the unit; and that Applicant be given one year to commence operations for the drilling or other operations with respect to the unit. The Applicant additionally requests that this pooling be a unit pooling.

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

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an

Administrative Law Judge on the Initial Hearing Docket at the Corporation Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 South Houston, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74127, at 8:30 a.m. on the 8th day of August, 2016 and that this Notice be published as required by law and the rules of the Commission.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that in the event this cause is uncontested, the Applicant, its representatives, witnesses and other proponents of the Applicant may appear and testify by telephone. The cost of telephonic communication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interested parties who wish to partic-ipate 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 all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact Dave Goodwin, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Suite 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74172, 918/582-2690 or Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, BARNES LAW, PLLC, 1648 S. Boston Ave., Ste.100, Tulsa, Oklaho-ma, 74119, 918/382-8686.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMABOB ANTHONY, ChairmanDANA L. MURPHY, Vice ChairmanJ. TODD HIETT, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED this 11th day of July, 2016.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, SecretaryLPXLP

(Published Sunday, July 17, and 24, 2016, in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press)

PUBLIC NOTICEAll persons having an indebtedness or claim against the City of Kingfisher are hereby notified that all invoices and documentation pertaining to said purchase order or contract must be re-corded in the office of City of Kingfisher City Clerk on or before September 30, 2016, covering all debts now unpaid and incurred during th period beginning on July 1, 2015, and ending on June 30, 2016, or said account shall be void and forever barred.

William TuckerClerk or Encumbering Officer

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