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The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Wednesday, July 15, 2020 OBI cause the need for blood is additional cleaning methods, their temperatures taken be- and transfusion,” OBI stated. constant, and increases dur- decontaminating work for fore starting work or enter- Blood donation typically ing the summer, local pa- common areas and equip- ing the facility.” takes only about an hour, tients are counting on our ment. Blood drives will be man- and one donation saves up Continued from page 1. heroic donors more than “Tn addition, donor cen- aged according to CDC safe- to three lives. Appointments cancellations in recent ever.” ters and mobile blood drives ty recommendations. can be made by calling months,” said John Armit- The release stated that have been adapted to allow “Oklahoma Blood Insti- 1-877-340-8777 or visiting age, M.D., president and Oklahoma Blood Institute’s for social distancing,” the re- tute is committed to main- obi.org. More information CEO of Oklahoma Blood donor centers and mobile lease stated. “Staff members taining the safest standards on Oklahoma Blood Insti- Institute, in the release. “Be- blood drives have instituted and donors will also have for blood collection, testing tute can be found at obi.org. July Reno, in the 0 to 2-year-old division; 7-year-old Angel Vega Jr., Dill City, king in U.S. education chief Continued from page 1. the 3-7 year old division; and 10 year old Angel Un- DeVos downplays risk of opening schools Trail ride on Chinaberry derwood, Burns Flat, queen had 14 participants. in the 8-12 year old division. For the Foss Lake Little On Saturday evening, visi- King and Queen Contest, tors enjoyed the lighted boat By Erik Wasson and Ryan Separately, on CNN's the health of our children.” winners were 2-year-old parade and fireworks dis- Beene, Bloomberg News “State of the Union,” DeVos Tom Inglesby, director of Leia Hope Barger, from El play. The top U.S. education of- said there was “no desire to the Johns Hopkins Center for ficial downplayed the risk of take money away,” but didn’t Health Security, said on “Fox reopening schools in the fall, specifically say that the ad- News Sunday” that while it's Factory jobs catch bounce aDonald high priority of President Trump, and repeat- ministration wouldn’t carry through with the threat. true that children are less at tisk of serious COVID-19 ed a threat to cut funding to from PPE manufacturing sume in-person learning as schools that don’t fully re- “The rule should be that kids go back to school this fall,” DeVos said, adding that infection than adults, the vi- rus can still be dangerous. He By Tim Henderson, State- gust, citing the pandemic’s to help factories modernize educators wrestle with the cited a 5-year-old who died in line.org effect on its lawnmower and or start making emergency risk of coronavirus. teachers who are at greater South Carolina from the virus. risk from coronavirus be- As factories start bringing pressure washer business. health care supplies related to “There’s nothing in the data Additionally, the science Some states are trying to cause of their age or underly- back workers laid off at the the coronavirus. that suggests that kids being surrounding how easily chil- ing conditions should work beginning of the pandemic, boost manufacturing job Automotive manufacturers in school is in any way dan- dren spread the virus to adults some are retooling to meet numbers by helping facto- across the country, including gerous. We know that children it out with their local school is less still murky, Inglesby coronavirus-related demands. ries reach out to potential makers of parts and supplies, contract and have the virus at districts. said. Designetics, a firm near To- customers of barriers, masks are having the most trouble far lower incidence than any Guidelines from the Cen- “What’s less clear is how ledo, Ohio, that makes wind- and other personal protective bouncing back. other part of the population,” ters for Disease Control about efficiently kids will spread the shield coating systems, now equipment, or PPE. Califor- Jobs in that sector dropped Education Secretary Betsy how to safely reopen schools virus in school, both to each has about half its 73 work- nia helped create an online by 40% or about 580,000 jobs DeVos said on “Fox News are “meant to be flexible and ers trained to make custom marketplace for that purpose between March and April, and Sunday.” meant to be applied as appro- other and to teachers, adults in June, and similar markets increased by about 35,000 in priate for the situation,” De- and parents,” he said. protective barriers to prevent “Parents are expecting that coronavirus transmission. were set up with state help in May as some automakers ‘Vos said. “In some places in the this fall their kids are going The switch started when a Missouri, Indiana and Ohio. started adding shifts again, ac-to have a full-time experience USS. House Speaker Nancy world, it seems like that has local hospital asked for a par- Those states are some of cording to a Stateline analysis with their learning, and we Pelosi, appearing on CNN af- been relatively uncommon ticular size barrier for ultra- the most dependent on manu- of Current Population Survey need to follow through on that ter DeVos, said the secretary's but there are examples,” he sound sessions with expect- facturing jobs. California has data provided by the Univer- promise,” she added. comments added up to “mal- said, citing a large outbreak in ant mothers. Orders flowed in the largest number of manu- sity of Minnesota. DeVos’s comments come as feasance and dereliction of schools in Israel after schools from grocery stores, restau- facturing jobs, while those in The slight improvement in US. education policy regard- duty. They are messing with reopened. rants and beauty salons. Even Indiana make up the largest automotive jobs will be hard ing the COVID-19 pandemic aTucson, Ariz., art gallery or- share of total jobs, 20%, ac- to sustain because there's has moved to the forefront. Thomas Robert (Rob) Snipes dered transparent barriers to cording to the Bureau of La- a worldwide glut of unsold Trump and DeVos last week keep its artwork visible. bor Statistics. cars, said William Spriggs, began to forcefully advocate Thomas Robert (Rob) “It’s really the big thing States are easing the path in chief economist for the AFL- that public elementary and Snipes was born on October 26, 1942 in Granite, OK and right now,” said Designetics other ways, too. As manufac- CIO and a former assistant high schools as well as uni- President Sydney Spraw. “It’s turers look to make protective labor secretary in the Obama versities reopen fully to stu- passed away at his home in Elk City on Friday, July 10, been a nice addition to what equipment on the side, many administration. dents in the fall despite a re- 2020 at the age of 77 after a we've lost on the automotive are worried about _liabil- “The drop in demand has surgence in COVID-19 cases long battle with Parkinson's side.” ity, said Linda Kelly, general been more precipitous than in many parts of the U.S., and Disease. While the company still counsel for the National As- the Great Recession,” Spriggs suggested that funding could He was the son of William ships its windshield coating sociation of Manufacturers, a said. “Unlike the Great Re- be pulled from schools that Thomas (Buster) and Glennie system to more than 60 coun- trade group. cession, the headwinds now don’t comply. Mae Thomason Snipes, life- tries, that part of the business “You now have digital are more like a hurricane.” “If schools aren’t going to long residents of Mangum. has become unpredictable, printing facilities. making States and cities will add to open they shouldn't get the Rob attended school in Mang- Spraw said. face shields, or textile mak- the glut when budget cutbacks funds,” DeVos said on Fox. um and graduated from high Rob was a member of the lo- “You can make something ers that now make masks and force them to stop buying new “Give it to the families.” school in 1960 as valedicto- cal steering committee, and and ship it and then the coun- gowns,” Kelly said. “If I’m cars for their own fleets, he rian of his class. ‘Flexible’ guidelines later he co-authored a souve- try closes down and it can’t making something I’ve never added. Rob attended Oklahoma nir book about the event. He be delivered because there’s made before, amI going to be State University where he was coached youth baseball and literally nobody there to ac- held to some obscure standard John Mark Rogers a member of Sigma Alpha soccer teams and was a sup- cept it,” Spraw said. “Or the Epsilon fraternity and was in when I’m just trying to step John Mark Rodgers of San ROTC. He received his BS in porter of many school activi- delivery person refused to be up and do the right thing in an Angelo, TX began dancing in Business from OSU in 1965. ties. He was president of Elk screened so they won’t accept emergency?” the golden streets with Christ On August 22, 1964 he mar- City Band Boosters several it. That’s happened. We have At least eight states have July 7, 2020. John was born tied his classmate, best friend times including 1989 when to switch to a different ser- passed laws or issued an ex- November 1, 1952 in Mang- and co-valedictorian, Marga- the ECHS band was chosen to vice.” ecutive order to limit liabil- um, Oklahoma to Joel and ret Sue Winters. This union march in the George H. Bush Manufacturing jobs na- ity during the pandemic, and Beulah Rodgers. John was a has lasted almost 56 years to- Presidential Inaugural Parade. tionwide are starting to come three more are considering it. teenager when he found the gether and was blessed with His favorite pastimes were back from their pandemic Towa, where 17% of jobs love of his life, Melinda. They two children, Susan and Will. hunting and fishing. He was an nosedive. Falling by more are in manufacturing, behind wed August 4, 1972 and were Lt. Snipes was commis- avid reader, played tennis, and than 1.3 million between Feb- only Indiana and Wisconsin, married for 47 years. They sioned in the Army in 1966 was passionate about all things raised three boys together and ruary and April, they hit 11.4 enacted a law in June shield- and served as an artillery of- OSU. Friends will always re- went on to have five grand- member him for his quick wit, million, the lowest number ing manufacturers of coro- daughters. oo - 0 ficer stationed at Ft. Sill and since March 2010, after the navirus-related protective John grew up admiring his Jim, Jerry, Allen (Lois), David was deployed on a thirteen jokes and one-liners, Great Recession. equipment from personal in- (Mary), Linda Jones (Bill), month tour at Camp Pelham Rob was preceded in death father’s ministry and passion- Manufacturing jobs jury or death lawsuits unless ately followed in his footsteps, Phil (Margaret). on the DMZ of South Korea. by his parents, a brother David creased in May and June by they’re based on “reckless- becoming an ordained min- Preceded in death by parents Following his discharge, Lee Snipes and sister-in-law about 700,000, but remain 6% ness or willful misconduct.” ister in 1985. He spent more and brothers, Joel and Bobby. Rob took a job in Ford Motor Carol Snipes. There will be a public view- Company's executive training He is survived by his wife, below the same point in 2019 Indiana has had many fac- than 18 years as a pastor in program in Ypsilanti, Michi- _ about the level they were tory layoffs in the automo- Carter, OK and Ingram/Ker- ing Friday, July 10, 2020 from Margaret, daughter Susan 9 am, to 8 p.m. with family gan. Following the birth of Lyon and husband Emil of five years ago as the recov- tive industry. Pittsburgh Glass rville, TX. It did not matter if their daughter, he and Mar- ery took hold, according to a Works in Evansville, a sub- John was behind the pulpit, in in attendance from 4 p.m. to 7 Harrisville, Mississippi, son garet decided to move back Stateline analysis of U.S. Bu- sidiary of Vitro Automotive, another country, doing con- p.m, at Shaffer Funeral Home, Will and wife Candise of Elk to western Oklahoma to raise brought its 360 workers back struction, or making a scene 1939 Sherwood Way, San An- City, three grandchildren, reau of Labor Statistics data. gelo, TX. their family, and they moved Other factory layoffs could in May after an eight-week in his community, he lived to to Elk City in 1976. Rob was Adam Lyon, Benton Snipes, share his faith in Jesus Christ A funeral service will be and Katie Mae Snipes, and still be coming as a result of coronavirus hiatus, only to aretail merchant in downtown and to show God’s love. held at 2 p.m, Saturday, July one brother Stanley Snipes of new shutdowns in response to notify them the same week 11, 2020 at PaulAnn Baptist Elk City until his retirement in the latest wave of coronavirus that the plant had to close Survived by his wife Me- 2003. Houston Texas. linda and sons, Joel (Kim) Church, San Angelo, TX. Rob was very active in his Arrangements are under the cases. permanently at the end of the Rodgers, John (Allison) Rod- In lieu of flowers, please year. Its parent company cited community as a member of direction of Chris Whinery For instance, the Wiscon- gers, Jeff (Kyla) Rodgers and consider donating to Bread United Methodist Church, and the staff of Affordable sin-based small engine manu- oversupply in the market. granddaughters Emily (James) For Life International - www. facturer Briggs & Stratton re- Faced with such examples, Jaycees, Kiwanis and Cham- Cremations, A private family Sutter, Allie, Tori, Vivienne, cten.org/breadforlife. ber of Commerce. When service will be held. Online cently announced 228 layoffs Indiana in June began of- Ashlea (Alex) Morante. Sib- Online condolences may be President Carter came to Elk condolences can be made at plus 120 more by its supplier fering $4 million in “manu- lings: Bonnie (Tom) Lane, made at shafferpioneer.com wwwelassicfunerals.com. City for a Town Hall in 1979, Adecco USA. effective in Au- facturing readiness” rants