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SundayOctober 12, 2014

No. 50 of the 126th Year

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

Hubbard isking hopeful

Kingfisher High School graduate and former Times and Free Press staff member Brandon Hubbard was se-lected as one of the top five candidates for Oklahoma State University 2014 Home-coming King.

To be eligible for home-coming royalty, students must have completed more than 60 college hours with a grade point average greater than 3.0.

The top 15 men and top 15 women were selected to inter-view with a judging panel of OSU faculty, staff, alumni and Stillwater community mem-bers and the top five men and top five women were selected from that group.

Selection is based on scho-lastic excellence, campus ac-tivities and a genuine desire to represent OSU and the OSU Alumni Association.

The homecoming king and queen will be announced and crowned during halftime of the Oct. 25 homecoming game against West Virginia.

Hubbard, a senior ma-joring in physiology and psychology, is the son of Su-zanne and Dennis Cerny and Craig Hubbard and has been a regular participant in OSU’s annual week-long homecom-ing celebration.

Kingfisher native Marsha L. Williams is featured in the Oct. 6 edition of Fortune magazine.

The theme of the October edition is “50 Most Powerful Women.”

Williams, an attorney with the Middleberg Rid-dle Group, a law firm with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge and New Orle-ans, La., is featured among women leaders in the law.

Her practice in the Dallas office is exclusively related to mortgage banking com-pliance.

She received her bache-lor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and her juris doctor degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Law.

She is admitted to prac-tice in Texas and Oklahoma and is a member of the American and Dallas bar associations.

She is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas and a top-rated lawyer in banking and finance law, the article relates.

She has made numerous presentations related to reg-

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PATH OF DESTRUCTION — No injuries were reported when the driver of a Copeland Hot Oil truck apparently lost control of the vehicle in downtown Dover Tuesday afternoon. Onlookers said the truck first veered off the highway to the east, taking out a light pole, traveling across the Dover Christian Church lawn and colliding with a parked vehicle at the Nina Collums residence (left photos, from top). The truck then apparently crossed to the west side of U.S. 81 before plowing into the side of a mobile home belonging to Sammy Bullard. Bullard told a Times and Free Press reporter that he was in the process of fixing up the mobile home, but it is currently unoccupied. The accident is under investigation by the Dover Police Department and neither the name of the driver nor the cause of the crash was available at press time Friday. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photos by Debbie Benson]

Warren Vieth

Renowned journalist and 1971 Kingfisher High School graduate Warren Vieth may help ease concerns of parents whose children enter col-lege not knowing what they want to do.

Vieth tested the waters in four other college majors before he was bitten by the journalism bug.

Vieth was born in 1953 to Em-manuel and Marilyn Vieth. Emman-uel had four brothers, Elmer, Milton, Alvin and Herbert and two sisters Aurelia (Hunt) and Lydia (Williams).

The Vieths were a prominent fam-ily in Kingfisher at the time, owning Vieth Brothers Implement Dealer-ship (now Rother Brothers). At the time, the dealership was the biggest Massey Ferguson dealership west of the Mississippi River.

The Vieths also farmed and Em-manuel was the vice president of Peo-ples National Bank (now InterBank).

Emmanuel and Marilyn also had one daughter, Nancy Glasgow, who is a retired dental hygienist living in Shawnee.

After high school graduation, Vi-

eth attended Oklahoma State Univer-sity as an engineering major, which he said was more his father’s idea.

After a year and a half, he didn’t like what he was studying so he dropped out for a semester, went back for a semester and then dropped out again.

He then enrolled as an English major at the University of Oklahoma, changed to filmmaking, then took an interest in broadcast leaning toward radio.

He met his future wife Kathy when both of them worked at the mental hospital in Norman, which employed many OU students.

Graduation requirements for Vi-eth’s broadcasting degree included an introduction to journalism class.

He was hooked when he saw his first byline in print in the OU student paper, the Oklahoma Daily.

“I was ecstatic,” Vieth said. “I be-came a reporter for the Oklahoma Dai-ly for two semesters then became the managing editor and then editor.”

He graduated in 1977 with a bach-elor’s degree in journalism.

Vieth’s jobs after college included reporting for the Oklahoma City Times, Tulsa World and the Dallas Times Herald.

He then spent two and a half years as the communications manager and executive assistant to T. Boone Pickens, writing more than half of his press releases and speeches.

At the time, Pickens was the owner of Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the world.

This was also the time Pickens had become quite a celebrity for corpo-rate takeovers.

“The job was fun, but grueling,” Vieth said.

From there, Vieth began his career with the Los Angeles Times where he was employed for the next 18 years.

In 1987, he started out as a technical reporter for the Times’ Orange County Edition and within six weeks catapult-ed to the position of business editor.

After two years in California, Vieth was promoted to national re-porter and assignment editor for the Washington Bureau of the L.A. Times

He and Kathy packed their bags and two children and made the move to Washington, D.C.

Officed eight blocks from the White House, he served as editor for 11½ years before returning to report-ing in 2001.

“Journalistically, it was a great place to live. Looking back, I wish I would have not spent as many years being an editor. I enjoyed reporting much more,” Vieth said.

The first story he wrote after re-turning to reporting was slated to be published Sept. 11, 2001, but was

Fifth college major choice becomes life’s passion for Kingfisher native Warren Vieth By Cindy GruntmeirTimes-Free Press Staff Writer

FRANK LUCAS takes questions at a town hall meeting in Kingfisher Thursday.

KINGFISHER’S FORMER National Guard Armory lends its own creepy atmosphere to Haunting of the Arts, organizers say. [Photo Provided]

Kingfisher Creative’s first ever Haunting for the Arts event will give thrill-seekers a chance to face fears for six evenings in October.

Highlighted by a hair-raising haunted house tour, the attraction will launch Oct. 17 and run on Friday and Saturday nights through Nov. 1.

Kingfisher’s Armory Building, purportedly haunted in its own right, will serve as the perfectly creepy venue.

The federal government trans-ferred ownership of the local armory

to the city of Kingfisher in 2012. The cavernous 1936 WPA-con-

structed building has not been occu-pied for a good number of years – at least not by the living, according to the creepy back story circulated by Kingfisher Creative members:

Legend has it that the city grant-ed use of the building to Kingfisher Creative, who had plans to renovate the building and transform it into the Kingfisher Arts Academy, an arts school focusing on various creative

Hair-raising haunted house opens Oct. 17

Brandon Hubbard

Marsha Williams

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D.C. changes coming, Lucas tells constituents

Frank Lucas told local constituents Thursday that Washington politics are due for a change, but not much and not quickly.

“We’ve had a really challenging time back east, but it’s going to get better,” he said. “It has to get better.”

Lucas spoke to a group of constituents at Chisholm Trail Museum Thursday afternoon as part of his town hall tour.

“It’s very frustrating right now because noth-ing is happening,” he said, referring to the grid-lock in the U.S. Senate, where rules allow unlim-ited discussion on any issue unless 60 percent of the senators vote to end debate.

“[Harry] Reid can’t get 60 votes, so every issue that gets to the senate just keeps spinning in circles and going nowhere,” he said.

Lucas predicted November elections will bring a narrow GOP majority in the senate, but he said President Obama’s veto power will continue to thwart forward progress.

“He’s not a Bill Clinton. He won’t respond to a Congress controlled by the opposition by looking for ways to compromise and we won’t have enough of a majority to override his vetos,” Lucas said.

He noted three effective ways to control bureaucratic overreach by ad-ministrative agencies seeking to legislate through new regulations: a direct challenge of their authority to act, passing legislation specifically to limit their authority or blocking the appropriations that finance them.

“Constitutionally, the president is supposed to administer laws, not write them,” Lucas noted. “That’s why it matters who we vote for in 2016.”

2 Sunday, October 12, 2014 Kingfisher (Okla.) Times & Free Press

Kingfisher High School officials have announced its “Students of the Month” for September as follow:

Annie McKay, senior, is the daughter of Timothy McKay and Glenda Payne. Her honors and activities include principal’s honor roll, National Honor Society, senior class favorite, football homecoming queen, tennis, FCCLA, FCA, student coun-

cil executive board and BPA.Harrison Powell, junior, is

the son of Lisa Matson and Rob Matson. His honors and activities include National Honor Society, Oklahoma Honor Society, principal’s honor roll, small school all-state band, all-area band, quiz bowl, speech and choir.

Maddie Myers, sopho-more, is the daughter of Jeff and Candyce Myers.

Her honors and activities include student council reporter, sophomore class student council representa-tive, National Honor Society, Oklahoma Honor Society, freshman class president, superintendent’s honor roll, basketball, track, FCA and Sts. Peter and Paul youth group.

Madelyn Gerken, fresh-

man, is the daughter of David and Cara Gerken. Her honors and activities include state runner-up for agricultural issues forum, first place team in livestock judging at Tulsa State Fair, freshman class vice president, cross country, FFA, track, soccer, student council and member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

KHS announces September ‘Students of the Month’Annie McKay Harrison Powell Maddie Myers Madelyn Gerken

Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Thursday recog-nized October as National Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month with a press con-ference and awards ceremo-ny to honor law enforcement, prosecutors, victim service advocates and volunteers who have gone above and beyond to assist victims of domestic violence.

“Domestic violence is a tragedy that happens daily for far too many Oklaho-mans,” Attorney Gener-al Pruitt said. “We hope that through our efforts this month, we can bring aware-ness to this serious issue and appreciation to those who work every day on the front lines for domestic violence victims.”

This year marks the sev-enth annual Domestic Vi-olence Awareness month press conference and awards ceremony. Hosted in the Governor’s Blue Room of the State Capitol, the goal is to in-crease awareness of domestic violence in our communities and honor the law enforce-ment, victims’ advocates, prosecutors and other part-ners who have gone above and beyond to assist victims of domestic violence. Award winners are Gayla Adcock, criminal investigator, Broken Arrow Police Department; Angela Marsee, assistant dis-trict attorney, Custer County; Mitzi Pope and Tina Qualls, victim advocates, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Family Vio-lence Prevention; and Lori Moynihan, volunteer domes-tic violence nurse examiner,

Bartlesville.Also, Attorney General

Pruitt is inviting Oklaho-mans to join him in wearing purple every Thursday in October as a visual reminder of Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month.

“Recent high-profi le events have brought do-mestic violence awareness to the forefront, but as Okla-homans we need to do all we can to highlight the tools and resources that our office along with law enforcement, victims’ advocates, prosecu-tors and other partners have to help victims of domestic violence,” Attorney General Pruitt said.

To report incidents of domestic violence, call the statewide 24-hour hotline at 1-800-522-SAFE (7233). For resources to assist victims of domestic abuse, contact the Attorney General’s Victim Services Unit at (405) 521-3921 or (918) 581-2885.

AG Pruitt recognizes October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Dover schedule toldDover school officials

have announced the sched-ule for the week of Oct. 13 as follows:

Monday – No school, fall break, Monday through Friday.

Tuesday – FFA Greenhand quiz-opening ceremony.

The Plainview HCE held its monthly meeting at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at the Banc-First Community Room.

Paula Post presented the lesson entitled “Different Cuts of Meats.”

Alice Mapel’s daughter, Joyce Gammon of Bethany, showed members how to make flowers out of differ-ent materials. Each member made a flower of their own.

The meeting adjourned

Plainview HCE holds meetingat 4 p.m.

The next meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, at the home of Mapel.

The lesson entitled “100 Years of Extension,” will be given by Mapel.

The Kingfisher Altrua Club will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Chisholm Trail Museum.

Jeanette Kloeppel will serve as hostess and Skeeter Glazier will be the program leader.

Kingfisher Altrua Club to meet

Lomega Schools’ officials have announced the sched-ule for the week of Oct. 13 as follows:

Monday – School board meeting, 7 p.m.; candle sales through Oct. 27; district academic meet, (H), 4 p.m.; Toastmasters: eighth grade, third hour; sophomores, sec-ond hour.

Tuesday – Elementary book fair ends; high school girls basketball scrimmage vs. Merritt, (T), 4:30 p.m.; ACT testing make-up test; Greenhand quiz at Chisholm Trail Technology Center, 4 p.m.

Wednesday – Aftershock youth group, elementary,

Lomega schedule told6:30 p.m.; PSAT test; re-port cards sent home; pre-k through second grade field trip, Alabaster Caverns.

Thursday – Fall break, no school, Thursday and Friday.

Saturday – Fright Night at Kingfisher Fairgrounds; cross country regional.

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Legal notices

(Published Sunday, October 12 & 19, 2014, in the Kingfisher Times & Free Press)

(Published Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, 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: WELL LOCATION EXCEPTION (PART OF A MULTIUNIT HORIZONTAL WELL)LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTIONS 4 AND 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201404380-TAMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PUR-CHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS including Blair Oil Co.; BRG Petroleum, LLC; Chaco Energy Co.; Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Gilliland Oil & Gas, Inc.; Hennessey Oil & Gas, LLC; Linn Operating, Inc.; Pride Energy Co.; Prime Operating Co.; Spess Oil Co.; Titan Resources, LTD; Veenker Resources, Inc.; 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, par-ticularly in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ap-plicant, Newfield Exploration Mid-Conti-nent Inc. has filed an application in this cause requesting the Corporation Com-mission of Oklahoma to enter an order, to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or as of a date prior thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting an exception to the permitted well location tolerances in the 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit formed in Sec-tions 4 and 9, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma for the Mississippian common source of supply, so as to allow, in part, a well, being a proposed multiunit horizontal well, to be drilled.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Applicant requests that that order to issue in Cause CD No. 201404378-T be amended to permit a well to be drilled and produced at the following location:

SURFACE HOLE LOCATION: NO CLOSER THAN 150 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMALOCATION OF WELLBORE (LAT-ERAL) AT SECTION 9 COMPLE-TION INTERVAL: THE PRO-POSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SEC-TION 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMALOCATION OF WELLBORE (LAT-ERAL) AT SECTION 4 COMPLE-TION INTERVAL: THE PRO-POSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SEC-TION 4, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

The entire length of the lateral will be cemented such that the perforations will be isolated from the beginning and end point of the lateral in order to protect the correlative rights of the offset units.

That order to issue in Cause CD No. 201404378-T will establish a 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing unit for the Mississippian common source

of supply underlying Sections 4 and 9, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, King-fisher County, Oklahoma. For the Mis-sissippian common source of supply the completion interval of a horizontal well in a horizontal well unit shall be located not less than 660 feet from the boundary of each 640-acre horizontal unit.

The Applicant in this cause states that there is currently pending before the Commission in Cause CD No. 201404379-T an application of Applicant requesting the Commission to approve the multiunit horizontal well involved herein and to establish a proper alloca-tion factor for allocating the cost of and the production and proceeds from such multiunit horizontal well to each of the units affected thereby.

The “land sections adjacent to the area within the location exception” requested herein in Sections 4 and 9, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma in regard to the subsurface location tolerance areas described above are Sections 34 and 33, Township 16 North, Range 8 West and Sections 16, 15, 10 and 3, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, all in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. The other “land sections” surrounding Sections 4 and 9, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma are Section 32, Township 16 North, Range 8 West and Sections 5, 8 and 17, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, all in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

That the Applicant be permitted to drill and produce said well at said location for the Mississippian common source of supply without any downward allowable adjustments and designate Applicant or some other party as operator.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Protested Hearing Docket at the Cor-poration Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 S. Houston, Suite 114, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127 at 8:30 a.m. on the 5th and 6th day of November, 2014 and that this Amended 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 participate by telephone shall contact the Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their name and phone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact Peter Burns, New-field Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Suite 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172, 918/582-2690 or Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, CRUTCH-MER & BARNES, P.L.L.C., 1648 S. Bos-ton Avenue, Ste. 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/382-8686.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMABOB ANTHONY, ChairmanPATRICE DOUGLAS, Vice ChairmanDANA L. MURPHY, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED this 9th day of October, 2014.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, SecretaryLPXLP

(Published Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, 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: MULTIUNIT HORI-ZONTAL WELL LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTIONS 4

AND 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201404379-TAMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

TO ALL PERSONS, OWNERS, PRODUCERS, OPERATORS, PUR-CHASERS AND TAKERS OF OIL AND GAS INCLUDING SECTION 4-15N-8W: Barbara C. Lawson, LLC; CNB &T, Suc-cessor Trustee of the Frank Annuschat Revocable Living Trust U/A dated De-cember 30, 1982; CNB &T, Successor Trustee of the Frank Annuschat Revo-cable Living Trust U/A dated December 30, 1982; CRB Resources, Inc.; D & M Resources, Inc.; David Joseph Wittrock; Douglas Gene Hauser and Karen L. Hauser; Homer L. Lawson, LLC; Jane Marie Wittrock; Jeanette Brewer, former-ly Jeanette Wiese, Life Tenant; Jerral W. Jones; Lorena Lietzke and Liesa Lietzke, as Co-Trustees of the Lietzke Irrevocable Trust; Marathon Oil Company; Michael Frank Barrackman; Michael Frank Barrackman; Nancy Ann Copeland; Pride Energy Company; R.R. Oil, LLC; Ricardo Padilla; Ricks Production, LLC; Texas Energy Supply, Inc.; Texas Energy Supply, Inc.; Veenker Resources, Inc.; Estate of Geraldine I. Fann, deceased; Hugh Simmons; Blair Oil Company; Estate of Ida Belle Orr C/O Nathan O. Orr; Ricks Drilling Program 1976-2; SECTION 9-15N-8W: Apple Rock, Inc.; BIOME, Inc.; Bruce E. Lassila; C&J Mineral Management, LLC a/k/a C&J Minerals; Charles Briscoe; Clella Joyce Campbell; Daniel G. Webber; Dwayne Karns; Edward Hernstadt; Estate of Roy Townsdin, Deceased; Felix Energy, LLC; Frederick Lawrence Bredel, Jr.; Gastar Exploration USA, Inc.; Helen M. Forbes, Trustee of the Forbes Trust dated June 9, 2005; Hennessey Oil & Gas, LLC; Henry Schneider and Felix A. Fishman, Trustees of the Lucy G. Moses Trust dated December 24, 1958C/O Deutsche Bank Trust Co.; Irving Sitnick and Deutsche Bank Trust Com-pany as Trustees of the Trust created by Lucy G. Moses under indenture dated December 24,1958, AKA the Lucy G. Moses Trust; James C. Wittrock; Janis Lea Hudson; Jaren Gayle Marsh; Jo Ann Ludwig; Juanita M. Krittenbrink; Juanita M. Krittenbrink; Judy Kay Trent; Karen Ralston Slade Revocable Trust; Kenneth and Chasity Caulder; Kenneth and Chas-ity Caulder; Louise A. Craig; Marathon Oil Company; Norman H. Craig and Louise A. Craig, Trustees of the Craig Revoca-ble Trust dated April 23, 2014; Swabbing, Inc.; Payrock Energy, LLC; Remlig Oil; Rose Kaye Cook; RUH Oil Company; Sand Creek Petroleum Company, LLC; Sooner Drilling, Inc.; Terry E. Harris; Tri-ple T Resources; William H. Hernstadt; Foster Petroleum Corporation; John W. Shawver II Lifetime Revocable Trust dated January 26,1996; Aileen S. Bell, the surviving Co-Trustee of the Robert G. Anderson Revocable Trust; Oklahoma Oil Tactics Inc.; Robert G. Anderson, Trustee of the Robert G. Anderson Revocable Trust C/O Aileen S. Bell; 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 Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant in this cause is requesting that the Commission enter an order to be effective as of the date of the execution thereof or follows:

Approving a multiunit horizontal well in the 640-acre horizontal drilling and spacing units formed for the Mississippi-an common source of supply in Sections 4 and 9, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma so as to allow such multiunit horizontal well to be drilled as described below and to be completed in and to produce hydro-carbons from the above-named common source of supply and establishing of a proper allocation factor for allocating the

cost of and the production and proceeds from such multiunit horizontal well to each of the affected units covered hereby.

Granting such other and further relief as may be proper based upon the evidence presented at the hearing herein. The legal descriptions of the land sections adjacent to the area within which the location exception lies are Sections 34, 33 and 32, Township 16 North, Range 8 West and Sections 5, 8, 17, 16, 15, 10 and 3, Township 15 North, Range 8 West, all in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. Applicant further requests that Applicant or some other party be authorized the right to drill said well, Applicant further requests that it be permitted to produce said well at said location from all common sources of supply covered hereby without any downward allowable adjustment.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT Applicant is proposing to drill the multiunit horizontal well involved herein at the following location:

SURFACE HOLE LOCATION: NO CLOSER THAN 150 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMALOCATION OF WELLBORE (LAT-ERAL) AT SECTION 9 COMPLE-TION INTERVAL: THE PRO-POSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET FROM THE EAST LINE OF SEC-TION 9, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMALOCATION OF WELLBORE (LAT-ERAL) AT SECTION 4 COMPLE-TION INTERVAL: THE PRO-POSED LOCATION OF THE END POINTS OF THE COMPLETION INTERVAL WILL BE NO CLOSER THAN 0 FEET FROM THE SOUTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 165 FEET FROM THE NORTH LINE AND NO CLOSER THAN 330 FEET

FROM THE EAST LINE OF SEC-TION 4, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

That the entire length of the lateral will be cemented such that the perfora-tions will be isolated from the beginning and end point of the lateral.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause will be heard before an Administrative Law Judge on the Protested Hearing Docket at the Corpo-ration Commission, Eastern Regional Office, 440 S. Houston, Suite 114, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127 at 8:30 a.m. on the 5th and 6th days of November, 2014 and that this Amended 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, wit-nesses and other proponents of the Applicant may appear and testify by telephone. The cost of telephonic com-munication shall be paid by the person or persons requesting its use. Interest-ed parties who wish to participate by telephone shall contact the Applicant or Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing date, and provide their name and phone number.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concern-ing this action, contact Peter Burns, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., One Williams Center, Suite 1900, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74172, 918/582-2690 or Ron M. Barnes or Grayson Barnes, CRUTCHMER & BARNES, P.L.L.C., 1648 S. Boston Avenue, Ste. 100, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119, 918/382-8686.

CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMABOB ANTHONY, ChairmanPATRICE DOUGLAS, Vice ChairmanDANA L. MURPHY, Commissioner

DONE AND PERFORMED this 9th day of October, 2014.BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION:PEGGY MITCHELL, SecretaryLPXLP

(Published Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in the Kingfisher Times and Free Press)

BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA

APPLICANT: GASTAR EXPLORATION INC.RELIEF SOUGHT: ESTABLISH A 640-ACRE HORIZONTAL DRILLING AND SPACING UNITLEGAL DESCRIPTION: SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 5 WEST, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

CAUSE CD NO. 201407509NOTICE OF HEARING

STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: E. Marcus Hall; Ray M. Smith; and all persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers and takers of oil and gas and all other interested persons, particularly in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, and more particularly the parties set out on the Exhibit “A” attached to the Applica-tion on file in this cause, and if any of the above individuals are deceased, or if any of the above companies are no longer in existence, the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees and assigns, immediate and remote, of the above-named parties.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Applicant requests that a single 640-acre horizontal well drilling and spacing unit be established for the Mississip-pian, Woodford, and Hunton common sources of supply underlying Section 15, Township 15 North, Range 5 West, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, by new spacing, with the unit to consist of said 640-acre tract, and with the permitted well to be located, from its point of entry and along any point of its lateral, not less than 330 feet from the east and west unit boundary and not less than 165 feet from the north and south unit boundary for the Woodford common source of supply, and not less than 660 feet from said unit boundary for the Mississippian and Hunton common sources of supply.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Applicant in this cause is requesting the following special relief: to designate the Applicant or some other party as Operator of the unit well. Applicant is further requesting that the Order to be entered in this cause be made effective on a date prior to the date of the Order.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause be set before an Administra-tive Law Judge for hearing, taking of ev-idence 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, Jim Thorpe Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m., on the 18th day of November, 2014, and that this Notice be published as required by law and the Rules of the Commission.

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

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For information concerning this action, contact JACK ELLIOTT, LANDMAN, Gastar Exploration USA, Inc., 1331 Lamar, Suite 650, Houston, TX 77010, Email: jelliott@gastar.com; Office: 405-772-1522, OR RICH-ARD K. BOOKS, Attorney, Two Lead-ership Square, 211 North Robinson, Suite 1300, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, Telephone: (405) 232-3722.

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CELEBRATES 4-H MONTH – To celebrate National 4-H Month, Cashion 4-H members made cookies (some even shaped like a 4-H clover) and gave them to local businesses to show appreciation for the support they have provided to 4-H’ers in Cashion and Kingfisher County. Receiving the homemade cookies were Cashion Elementary and high schools, Farm Bureau, Cashion Community State Bank, Cashion Grain and Feed, Falcon Rigs, Cashion City Hall, Shape Up and Prime Foods. Pictured are, front row, from left, Reece Patterson, Jayce Evans and Aidan Berry; middle row, Laynee Woody, Bryant Chitsey and Cam Chitsey, and, back row, Shelly Carter, Farm Bureau, Emilee Evans and Chris Cochran, Farm Bureau agent. [Photo Provided]

100 years agoThe big “church fight”

which has been carried on in Hennessey for some time, has probably drawn to a close. Rev. Payne, the Baptist minister, assailed several of the citizens from his pulpit Sunday evening, and Mon-day the fight terminated in blows upon the street when the minister and his young brother who were going down the street in a buggy were stopped by Alfred Hammer, and after a few words, the trouble began. Hammer was hit over the head with a bat by young Payne.

The minister and his brother were taken in an automobile and brought to Kingfisher. A warrant was sworn out for the arrest of young Payne on the charge of assault and battery.

75 years agoCecil “Pete” Rivers, for-

mer Kingfisher High School football star, now a senior at Oklahoma A. and M. College and a halfback on the Aggie football team, place-kicked his team to a 9-7 victory over

Tulsa University Saturday at Tulsa.

50 years agoCheryl Perdue has been

appointed assistant manager of the Street’s Department Store, which opened on Monday in the new Shep-pard Mall shopping center at Oklahoma City. Cheryl also is head of the sportswear department there.

Hennessey Boy Scout Troop 134 took a bicycle hike to the Oklahoma State Fair.

This is the second year the Hennessey Scouts have undertaken this 80-mile bike hike. The trip was made un-der the direction of assistant Hennessey Scoutmaster Jim Henry and David Lee.

25 years agoKeith Boevers, Kingfisher

County Extension 4-H agent for almost nine years, has been appointed as agricul-tural agent effective Oct. 1.

Alfred D. “Sonny” Howe has been hired as the new Kingfisher Electric Depart-ment superintendent, re-placing Carl Williams, who retired from the position this summer.

Oklahoma State Univer-sity will host the fourth annual Global Horticulture Conference on Thursday, Nov. 6, said Mike Schnelle, OSU Cooperative Extension ornamental floriculture spe-cialist. The event will begin at 8 a.m. in Room 108 at the Wes Watkins Center on the OSU campus.

“This focused conference will address horticultural topics of interest from multi-ple continents. The goal is to expose participants to horti-cultural practices and crops from around the world,” Schnelle said. “We have a di-verse group of professionals who will share their expertise during a wide variety of breakout sessions.”

Registration is $80, in-cludes lunch and must be

postmarked by Oct. 27. The Botanic Garden at OSU mem-bers, Master Gardeners, OSU Cooperative Extension ed-ucators and students may register for $60. No walk-ins or late registrations will be accepted. Please register ear-ly as seating is limited. For more information about the conference contact Stephanie Larimer at 405-744-5404 or email at stephanie.larimer@okstate.edu.

Participants also may register online at http://orangehub.okstate.edu/us-tores/web/index.jsp. Under the “Stores” heading, click Horticulture/Landscape, then select Conference Reg-istration and then choose 2014 Global Horticulture Conference.

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Area oil reportINTENT TO DRILL

Kingfisher: Husky Ventures Inc.; The River No. 1-22H Well; S1/2 S1/2 SW1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 22-19N-09W; TD 12,812.

Logan: Devon Energy Produc-tion Co., LP; Ficken 27-19N-4W; No. 1MH Well; SE1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 (BHL) of 27-19N-04W; TD 10,420.

WELLS COMPLETEDCanadian: Devon Energy Produc-

tion Co., LP; Mason 20-12N-10W No. 1H Well; SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 20-12N-10W; 88 barrels oil per day, 179,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 13,747.

Devon Energy Production Co., LP; Yager 31-13N-9W No. 2H Well; NW1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 NE1/4 (SL) of 01-12N-10W; 2 barrels oil per day, 1,569,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 17,804.

Garfield: Kirkpatrick Oil Co., Inc.; Payne No. 1-1 Well; C NE1/4 SW1/4 of 01-23N-08W; 2 barrels oil per day, 1,207,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 7,438.

SK Plymouth LLC; Campbell No. 2-14H Well; N1/2 NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 (SL) of 14-24N-04W; 114 barrels oil per day, 494,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 10,458.

Area oil reportWELLS COMPLETED

Garfield: Devon Energy Pro-duction Co., LP; Eason 26 23-21N-3W No. 1WHX Well; NE1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 NW1/4 (BHL) of 23-21N-03W; 22 barrels oil per day, 28,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 15,657.

Devon Energy Production Co., LP; Eason 27 22-21N-3W No. 1WHX Well; SW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4 (BHL) of 22-21N-03W; 41 barrels oil per day, 51,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 14,358.

Kingfisher: Hinkle Oil and Gas Inc.; House No. 4-13H Well; N1/2 N1/2 N1/2 NE1/4 (SL) of 13-17N-06W; 215 barrels oil per day, 611,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 11,850.

JEC Operating LLC; Palmer No. 1-35 Well; C NW1/4 SE1/4 of 35-19N-09W; 18 barrels oil per day, 1,600,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 8,632.

Logan: Blue Dolphin Production LLC; Dolese No. 1-28MH Well; S1/2 S1/2 SW1/4 SW1/4 (SL) of 21-17N-02W; 195 barrels oil per day, 178,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 10,417.

Kirkpatrick Oil Co., Inc.; Judy Rae No. 1-4CH Well; SE1/4 SW1/4 SW1/4 SE1/4 (SL) of 04-19N-03W; 250 barrels oil per day, 618,000 cu-ft. gas per day; TD 9,406.

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At a recent public meeting in Norman, New York attorney David Slottje encouraged Oklahoma communities to ban hydraulic fracturing.

Slottje, the executive director of the Community Environ-mental Defense Fund, told the audience the oil and natural gas industry must prove hydraulic fracturing is safe to the environment. His comment comes just months after marking the 65th year the well completion process has been used in Oklahoma, with no evidence to show hydraulic fracturing has impacted the state’s ground water resources.

Slottje also told the audience the horizontal wells that have breathed new life in Oklahoma’s historic oil and natural gas fields and opened new resources across the country are “not your grandmother’s well” and can require hydraulic fracturing procedures 10 times larger than wells of the past.

That sounds scary, but is is true?It is true that a modern horizontal well requires greater

fracturing stimulation than the vertical wells drilled even five years ago. But, one long horizontal well can replace a dozen vertical wells, and the completion process is done in up to 40 stages. Mr. Slottje wants to add all these stages up and say this is some type of dangerous super frack different than what we have done in the past.

This is a little like saying setting off 40 firecrackers one after the other is the same as lighting a stick of dynamite. It just doesn’t work that way.

Oil and gas industry critics have also focused on water use, claiming that hydraulic fracturing has caused a huge

The U.S. is producing so much oil it is putting the nation’s pipelines to the test.

America produced more oil in the first quarter of 2014 than either Saudi Arabia or Russia, making it the world’s largest oil producer.

The Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) publication,The Wellhead, discussing the oil and gas boom’s effect on the nation’s pipelines, comments that the nation’s pipeline infrastructure isn’t up to the task of han-dling all the oil and gas.

More than a half million more miles of pipeline will be built by 2035, according to a study by the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

The Wellhead points out that is equal to 22 trips around the world and then some.

North Dakota, which is setting on top of the Bakken Shale formation, put more than 2,400 miles of pipeline into service in 2012 and that pace isn’t expected to slow down.

In 2014, three major crude crude oil pipelines will start moving oil out of the Bakken. Another three are scheduled to be built in 2016 with a combined capacity of the embattled Keystone pipeline.

The Wellhead says that pipelines are hardly noticed by the general public, noting that in a single half-mile of I-25 between Cheynne, Wyo., and the Colorado line, roughly 3.5 billion cubic feet of of gas passes through it each day – one-twentieth of the U.S. average daily consumption – and nobody notices.

(It should be noted that all this new production is attribut-able to private land production. President Obama continues to refuse to open government-owned land for development.)

In another article in the magazine, U.S. Rep. James Lank-ford urges, “Stop vilifying American energy.”

Lankford released his comments after the Obama admin-istration announced a proposal in July purportedly aimed at improving the safety of trains carrying crude oil.

According to the administration, the proposed rules in-clude mandates for phasing out older rail cars, lowered speed limits and other restrictions the administration claims will reduce the number of rail crashes.

Lankford commented:“These new rules specifically targeting the transportation

of oil are just another attempt by the administration to vilify traditional American energy.

“The safety and protection of human lives and property should always be the top priority. The railroad and energy industries remain leaders in ensuring constantly improv-ing standards to prevent accidents. There is already strong cooperation between the oil and rail industries to improve safety and attempt to reduce the number of accidents on our nation’s rail system. ... This new rule is designed to increase costs and slow the use of North American fuels.” ...

Sen. Jim Inhofe also authored an article in the magazine entiled “Threatenening Energy Independence.”

In it, he defends the practice of horizontal drilling and fracturing, noting that studies have shown the process is safe to groundwater sourcesand is instrumental to the state’s growing economy.

He also points out Obama’s efforts to undercut states’ regulating organizations.

“Unfortunately, the president does not respect the ability of Oklahoma or other states to effectively regulate energy development. In fact, since the beginning of his administra-tion, he and his environmentalist allies have been engaging in all-out war on fossil fuels. Their aim is to use theadmin-istration’s regulatory powers to put oil, natural gas and coal industries out of business so that Americans are forced to rely on renewables dimming our economy’s brightest spot.”

Elsewhere in the publication, Kim Crawley, chairman of the OIPA Regulatory Committee pens an article regarding a speech by New York City lawyer David Slottje urging Oklahoma communities to ban hydraulic fracturing and responding to the claims: It follows:

Not Your Grandmother’s Oil Well

Oil boom testing pipeline capacity

(See View, Page 5)

There seems to be organiza-tions looking out for the civil rights of everything and every-body these days. Gays, bisexuals, old folks, black folks, toddlers, dogs, horses, priests, prisoners, fat people,  skinny people, tall people, short people, Muppies (mature urban professionals) and Puppies (pregnant urban professionals) all have their own guardians. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no group is looking out for cats. 

Cats are second rate citizens and are routinely discriminated against and I’m not going to put up with it any more. People will cross the street rather than share the sidewalk with a black cat and did you know that cats aren’t mentioned once in the Bible? You can hear the disdain we hold for cats in our speech when we use words like catty, cataclysm, and catastrophe. We need to eliminate such words from our vocabulary as it is very disrespectful. 

Sadly, there is just no feeling for felines. While 28 percent of Americans do not like cats only 5 percent dislike dogs and yet there are no cat sit-down protests, strikes or lobbyists. Granted cats aren’t real social, and very few cats are on Facebook, but still, cats have rights too!

No Congressman has stood on the floor of the House and given an impassioned plea for a Cats with Disabilities Act or health insurance for cats (Medicat). No Cat Liberation Front has stormed the shelter to free the kitties and no Cat Victims Fund has sent

Cat’s Rights

It’s the PittsBy Lee Pitts

me a mailer begging for money. Why do we continue to dismiss the civil rights of cats while rich old ladies are dying and leaving their millions and mansions, to Corgis and Collies. Why do dogs have all the rights while all cats have is more kittens?

Talk about discriminated in the workplace! Dogs get the good jobs like sniffing baggage for drugs yet I don’t know of a single cat employed herding cattle and sheep in this country.

Although I’d pay a lot of money for a ticket to see such a thing!

The discrimination starts at the top. President Obama and his family take their dog every-where on vacation but I have yet to see a cat on Air Force One. For all I know, the President might have a cat but, like everyone else, when he leaves on one of his many vacations he probably just throws some cat chow on the ground and says, “You’re on you’re own.” As if it were an ally, or something. 

Speaking of vacations, peo-ple pay a small fortune to leave their dog in a kennel where they get to play with other dogs. Next time you’re at one of these places count the cats. There are doggie bags and dog spas but whoever heard of a kitty bag or a cat massage? Poodles get

clipped like a topiary hedge but a cat clip job? Never.

On the streets of every big city you’ll see urban professionals walking their dogs yet when is the last time you saw a cat on a leash in New York City? I’ve been in banks that welcome dogs but bank presidents would never allow cats inside. Perhaps it’s be-cause dogs might leave a deposit, so to speak, but a cat? Never.

We make jokes about drop-ping cats from the top of the silo to see if they land on their feet and about washing the cat in the toilet, and rinsing them by flushing, but it’s not funny if you’re a cat. My heart bleeds for them. I’ve even seen bumper stickers on cars that say “Cats: The Other White Meat. That’s so hurtful! Cats can read too, you know? We build dog houses for our Border Collies and Labs but there’s no such thing as a cat house. Well, actually there is, but I doubt they allow cats inside.

All this discrimination but I have yet to see a Million Cat March on Washington. Probably because cats don’t lobby and aren’t easily organized. So I’ve decided what this country needs is a Cat’s Legal Defense Fund to end all this discrimination. So you cat lovers out there, both of you, give generously so that I can begin to file lawsuits on behalf of cats, and my 401K, immediately. And please realize what a sacrifice this is for me because, well, I don’t really like cats all that much.  

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Surprise: Obamacare hurting economic growth

By Brady Cremeens(This article originally

appeared on heartland.org.)A new study reveals Af-

fordable Care Act may be det-rimental to business growth across the country.

In a survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, more than 18 percent of businesses re-sponded they have cut down on employees and reduced hiring due to expenses in-curred by the law, also known as Obamacare.

The study asked hun-dreds of businesses across the U.S. about the effects of Obamacare on their hiring practices, benefits packages and compensation rates.

Three percent responded they had increased their payroll as a result of the ACA.

“The problem is really two fold,” said Josh Archam-bault, senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability, based in Florida. “It hurts small-busi-ness employers because it de-incentivizes expansion and growth and it hurts em-ployees because employers are forced to shift higher insurance costs onto them.”

SmallBusinessesReluctant to Expand

Archambault said many businesses may decide against attempting to grow and hire new employees because it’s now too costly.

“Especially those em-ployers who are nearing the 50-employee mark,” he said. “If they break 50, they get a bunch of new costs and re-quirements thrust onto them. Many will decide to just stay where they are, which is bad for job growth and the econ-omy in general.”

Businesses that employ fewer than 50 full-time-equiv-alent employees have ac-cess to the Small Business Health Operations Program, SHOP, under the ACA. Com-panies with more than 50 full-time-equivalent employ-ees have other regulations they must meet.

Eighteen percent of busi-nesses indicated they had reduced workers’ hours by decreasing the number of full-time employees and increas-ing the number of part-time employees.

Burden Too HeavyA lot of the stagnant eco-

nomic growth and reduction in hiring is a result of this law,” Archamault said. “It puts too heavy a burden on employers, and the average working man is paying, both figuratively and out of his own pocket.”

Employers share stories of hour, employment cuts

The study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is only the latest piece of evidence that the employer mandate and other require-ments of the Affordable Care Act is forcing employers to scale back hiring and reduce hours for employees.

A survey in April 2013 by the Society for Human Resource Management found 41 percent of small business-es had put off hiring new employees, while 20 percent had cut hours and reduced payroll.

These studies come after several announcements by business owners that they would be forced to cut em-ployee hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.

In October of 2012 Darden Restaurants, which operates Olive Garden and other restaurant chains, announced it would be experimenting with cutting employee hours to below the 30-hour per week threshold that would require them to offer health bene-fits. The move draw intense criticism and Darden later said it would not be cutting employee hours.

Several other restaurant franchisees also announced they would have to cut em-ployee hours. In an Aug, 14, 2013, report by NBC News, several other small business owners shared they too would be cutting hours in response to the employer mandate.

“To tell somebody that you’ve got to decrease their hours because of a law passed in Washington is very frustrat-ing to me,” Loren Goodridge, who owns 21 Subway fran-chises, told NBC News.

Cutting Employmentand Keeping Quiet

Small businesses that have spoken publicly have faced

(See Economy, Page 5)

By Ted BuswellAs the days quickly pass

toward Halloween the news continues more frightening than the goblins normally deliver for tricks or treats celebrated in these parts. As with many customs handed down for generations atti-tudes and behaviors on the various celebrations have changed considerably over time. When we stop and think about the events in our lives it’s remarkable how much change we have wit-nessed in the passing of time. And of course the pleasures derived from the various special occasions are always tempered and altered by the current events of the day at the time. Today it is often hard to fully enjoy various celebrations because of the frightful and tragic news of events near and far that affect the fate of everyone on earth.

It is a little spooky that virtually everybody has been living under threat of violence and war during the last hundred years. And such threats continue today with-out relief. Not only is there growing threat of terroristic attacks by the growing ISIS in Iraq and Syria (and now Turkey), but we have had a beheading incident here in Oklahoma. And there is evidence that this ungodly incident stems from similar Islamic roots as those oc-curring in Iraq. It has been alleged that teachings in the Mosque of membership of the Muslim murderer in this case promote the radical interpretations of the Koran similar to those practiced in ISIS. Of course it should be understood that there are radical members of every religion and their practices often differ from the ma-jority of the sects involved. But the Oklahoma repre-

sentative was perhaps cor-rect in advising people that they should be aware and concerned about practicing Muslims in their vicinities. Sadly the conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims continues to grow more common and pronounced in many regions of the world.

One thing is obvious when it comes to conflict and controversy among the people on earth. There has never yet been total peaceful coexistence of people with strong political or religious beliefs. And with human nature as it is and has ever been it is doubtful that such will occur in our lifetime. And of course the matter is further complicated by the scientific advances in recent decades. Virtually anyplace on earth can now be reached in a matter of hours. And nuclear weapons perfected by Americans during World War II provide such destruc-tive potential that any all out war will indeed be pure Hell as the saying goes. And chemical warfare is also a new frontier in weapons that would be most devastating to any population. Of course the most effective defense against such weapons is the balance of such armament between potential foes. Such balance maintained our conflict with Russia during the “Cold War” for decades after WWII. But today such weapons are possessed by numerous nations like North Korea and soon Iran will have them . And such might very well be available on the open market for all we know. Those of you who were here back in 1945 will recall that it only required a couple of our atomic bombs dropped in two cities to bring quick and timely surrender of our enemy at the time. What would we do here if similar

things occurred in three or four of our major cities? And it’s foolish to think that nobody among our current enemies has thought of such possibilities and might one day come up with the means to deliver.

We are experiencing one significant difference today in our dealing with threats to our national security than we have in any threats of the past. Our current lead-ers are absolutely opposed to practicing the rules that have given us security in the past. They continue to avow that we will “have no boots on the ground” to deal with threats against us and our allies. It is logical to assume that no Americans should desire an all out war, but if war is inevitable common sense dictates that any route to victory requires military fighters in personal combat against the enemy. And even after the surrender of an en-emy, an occupational force will be required for a reason-able time after victory. Con-sider the fact that Japan and Germany are now among our staunchest friends. And logic might tell us that such condition is the result of the quality of occupation we ex-ercised with them after 1945.

One thing that we should not forget is wisdom inherit-ed by us from great leaders of the past. Education of the public is key to the mainte-nance of liberty and justice for all. And we had better be tending to our local and national needs in this arena today and tomorrow and ever after. It has worked before, and it is the best tool we have to fix damage done and brighten the road ahead. As easy as entrance has become to the White House lately, maybe we could even present a lesson or two to the president?

Over the fence and across the lawnto open a door to peace…

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increase in the amount of wa-ter disposed of in Oklahoma injection wells. The truth is, only a small percentage of the water being disposed of is water used to stimulate the well, and that percentage is shrinking as the oil and gas industry becomes more skilled at recycling this fluid so it can be reused.

When oil and natural gas are produced, they are naturally associated with salt water that occurs in the same formation. For every barrel of oil produced in the state of Oklahoma, we produce about 10 barrels of salt water that is disposed of by underground injection. So the improved efficiency of these horizontal wells leads to more oil, but it also leads to more water to handle.

Despite the criticisms, the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic frac-turing is working. In less than a decade our country has gone from producing 5 million barrels of crude oil per day to 8 million bar-rels per day, and the rate is still climbing. In Oklahoma alone, we have more than doubled crude oil produc-tion in the past five years and have reached output levels not seen since 1987.

What does this mean to us as citizens of the United States? The increase in pro-duction means every day $3 billion stays in our country, supporting our economy in-stead of going overseas. Tens of thousands of high-paying jobs have been created.

It also means U.S. royalty owners are being paid an additional $600 million ev-ery day. In Oklahoma, that means the farmers, ranchers, widows, schoolteachers, re-tirees and ordinary everyday Oklahomans who hold min-eral rights will see an increase in a critical source of income.

All of these benefits are directly traceable to horizon-tal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, but perhaps the biggest payoff is what this boom means for our national security. We need our young men and women pursuing careers building our country, not fighting halfway around the globe to secure vital ener-gy resources.

This isn’t your grand-mother’s well. It is many times better for all of us.

This column originally ap-peared in The Oklahoman.)

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The Daily SignalChristian entrepreneurs

Joe and Ann Baker are influencing the pro-life movement without ever exiting their vehicles.

“Save the Storks” has quite literally mobilized the pro-life movement by parking buses outside abortion clinics.

Shortly after their en-gagement in 2011, the Bakers founded Save the Storks, a non-profit organi-zation dedicated to encour-aging abortion-minded women to choose life.

Equipped with state-

of-the-art technology and a network of volunteers, Save the Storks has quite literally mobilized the pro-life movement by parking buses outside abortion clinics to offer women free ultrasounds, pregnancy tests and counseling.

“Many of the women who go to a clinic are not completely sold on abor-tion. Some are just waiting for someone to offer them a kind word of support for their pregnancy,” claims Storks’ website.

According to its press kit, each Mercedes-Benz bus costs about $100,000 to build and tailor to fit Storks’ brand, which aims to provide a “safe, com-fortable, and non-threat-ening atmosphere.”

Although able to fit within a single parking space, Storks claims its buses are designed to feel spacious. The interior features plush seats with warming functions and internal massagers, a pri-vate bathroom and even Wi-Fi so the counselor can control the lighting, tem-perature and music using an iPad application.

Paul Isaacs, Storks’ vice president of ministry ad-vancement, said the or-ganization has received nothing but positive feed-back since its inception. It’s now expanding its reach.

“I think last January we only had one [van] out. We were scratching and clawing as this ministry is non-profit. Now, I think we have eight or nine out with one coming out every month for the next five months,” said Isaacs during a recent panel at The Heritage Foundation

co-hosted with the Nation-al Review Institute.

(Watch Heritage’s pan-el, “Strengthening Society: What Progress on Life Can Teach us for Chal-lenges Facing the Family”)

According to Isaacs, 84 percent of post-abortive women thought abortion was “their only choice.” Reducing that number is at the heart of Save the Storks’ mission.

“We want to come along-side women and offer them a different choice,” said Isaacs.

Since launching its mo-bile medical units, Storks has routinely witnessed the remarkable impact of its efforts. According to its website, “three out of five women who board a Stork bus choose to keep their baby.”

“When a woman sees her baby, hears the heart-beat, and knows that she is going to have ongoing support, the likelihood of her carrying her child to term increases dramatical-ly,” notes Storks’ website.

Isaacs also identified the effect Storks’ vans have had on the industry itself—in addition to women.

“It’s amazing that some-times abortion clinics will not open to do abortions; they cease doing them because of our sidewalk ministry,” said Isaacs.

According to The Heri-tage Foundation’s 2014 In-dex of Culture, the overall U.S. abortion rate among women ages 15 to 44 has “dropped by four abor-tions per 1,000 women” between 2001 and 2011, “continuing a trend that began in 1980.”

Pro-abortion advocates have responded with ex-panded efforts to human-ize abortion using trendy avenues like the arts, the Internet and Hollywood.

Advertised as a plat-form to empower women, projects like the “1 in 3” campaign are encouraging grassroots efforts to destig-

matize abortion.Taking its name from

the statistic that one in three women will have an abortion during her life-time, the “1 in 3” campaign is a web-based project that asks post-abortive wom-en to share their stories anonymously in video or written form so as to “build a culture of compassion, empathy, and support for access to basic health care.”

“I have had two abor-tions, one when I was in my mid-20s, unmar-ried and living with my boyfriend. We were ca-reer-minded and wanted to be married before we had our first child. I had no guilt, no remorse. I always felt like it was the right thing to do,” shared one woman in her ‘story.’ Another woman wrote: “I saved the ultrasound pic-ture in a dated envelope, stuck it in a drawer and just as I closed the drawer—I closed out that moment in my life.”

Other a t tempts a t destigmatization include PBS’s recent decision to air a documentary focused on the lives of late-term abor-tion doctors, despite sub-stantial opposition from pro-life taxpayers, and Hollywood’s enthusiastic

an intense backlash among supporters of the law. Darden faced a firestorm of criticism after its announcement, and owners of Denny’s, Papa Johns, and Applebee’s fran-chises also endured negative attacks based on their busi-ness decisions to consider cutting hours.

In light of that backlash, health policy experts say employers who have to cut employee hours or jobs will simply keep quiet. “Given the way Obamacare supporters publicly criticized employers who announced that they were cutting back hours in response to the health care law, it would not surprise me if many employers are still doing so but not telling anyone about it,” said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the free-mar-ket Cato Institute.

Brady Cremeens writes for the Illinois News Network, where an earlier version of this article originally appeared. Sean Par-nell, managing editor of Health Care News, also contributed to this story.

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Christian entrepreneuers influencing pro-life with mobile sonogram units

praise of the film “Ob-vious Child” for being a first-of-its-kind “abortion rom-com.”

Nonetheless , when asked about his adversar-ies during the panel, Isaacs reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to the pro-life movement. He also voiced optimism about the future.

“I do feel hopeful in this issue. I think more and more, pro-abortionists … I think they’re going to be marginalized ” said Isaacs.

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