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a Serving Western Oklahoma Weekday Edition Canute World War Il soldier’s lost canteen makes global news By Shonda Little, Contributing writer A few weeks ago, Rachael Schones Dunlap and her husband embarked upon a made-for-television journey to recover her late grandfather Raphael Schones’s long, lost military canteen. Up until just a few days prior, she and her family hadn’t even known the canteen existed, much less that a Mis- souri man would soon find it and send them reminiscing about their own personal hero from the “Greatest Genera- tion.” Raphael Schones died in 2015. Andy Hinton, a man from the St. Louis area, had been out on the Mississippi River scouting arrowheads when he spied something both strange and eye catching. “I guess the water is down quite a bit and that is how Great Plains Baptist Association disaster relief workers are, from left, Dane Trout and Bobby he saw Grandpa’s canteen,” said Dunlap, who lives in Gwartney Jr. of Hammon, Maurice Wade of Elk City, Richard Pantoja of Hollis, Stephanie Canute. “Andy saw it said Pearl Harbor and was also en- DeLaCruz of Cheyenne and Pastor Scott Showers from Hammon. Submitted photo. graved with Guam, Casablanca, North Africa, and it had the dates. Then he had etched two hearts. Inside one, it By Don Munsch, Editor Lake Charles area. said ‘Mom and Dad.’ In the other, it said ‘Ragine’ as well Maurice Wade has been helping with relief efforts after “T’ve been doing this for about 15 years,” Wade said. “I as Canute, Oklahoma.” natural disasters for years, and he and members of the Great worked the Haiti earthquake. You end up going all over the The canteen also displayed the name of Raphael Plains Baptist Association disaster relief team went to Loui- United States, such as Hurricane Sandy. They had tornadoes Schones, her beloved grandfather. However, at the time siana after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast in August. in the northeastern part of the United States about two years he was scratching out these ageless life notes, he was but Wade, of Elk City, attends First Baptist Church in Elk ago. Hurricane Harvey. You never get used to the devasta- a young adult in the throes of a bloody global war being City. He said with the latest storm, Hurricane Delta, there tion and everything — no two are alike, really. It seems like fought halfway around the world. are crews set to go back to the state, and he will be going they’re getting worse every year. See Canteen page 2. again. Great Plains Baptist Association features relief peo- “It’s a blessing for me to be able to go down and be able to ple from Beckham and Roger Mills counties. help people,” he said. Two recovery crews were set to go to Louisiana this past He said his group sent chainsaw, shower, cooking and Sunday. Chainsaw crews will go down to help with relief ef- chaplain teams to Louisiana. An incident command unit also forts with clearing away trees, including trees that have gone is sent to help. through roofs. Trees also are cleared away from backyards “Tt takes a lot of people in our organization to do this,” he so as to allow people to get back into their homes and get said. electricity turned back on. His group also helps with debris removal, including homes “That’s what we’ve been mainly doing there is working that are flooded, as they pull out carpeting, furniture, floor- chainsaw,” Wade said late last week. “I think everything is ing and walls. pretty well evacuated now down there, of course.” “After we get it cleaned out and dried out, then we go in Crews stay in the state about a week. Crews are rotated and disinfect it,” he said, adding that if time and funds are into the areas needing help. His organization covered the See Relief page 2. Corporate America puts $2 trillion in Se = Canute High School baseball players, bank in run-up to election including Kelln Henderson [top right], dogpile after winning the OSSAA Class A By Vildana Hajric and Lu Wang, Bloomberg News Digital Corp., down 38% in 2020, AT&T Inc., down 22%, Fall Baseball Championship at the Chickasaw Made stingy by the pandemic and gun-shy by the elec- Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City on and Merck & Co., off by 9%. The firm’s cash-return basket, Saturday. A complete story on the state tion, U.S. companies have reconsidered spending plans on including Altria Group Inc. and Booking Holdings Inc., has tournament will be in the Oct. 17 edition of everything from shareholders to factories. As a result, cash lost 1.5%. The News. Photo by Alonzo J. Adams for and is pooling on balance sheets, swelling rainy day funds to an courtesy of The Oklahoman. unprecedented $2 trillion. See Corporate page 2. While analysts have a million ways to spend it, the mar- ket’s preference is clear: don’t. Doing so has been bad for Health officials offer advice for Halloween celebrations your stock. Companies laying out the most for share repur- chases and capital investments have trailed the S&P 500 Officials with the Oklahoma State Department of Health * Discouraging outdoor activities with groups larger than since its March low, according to data compiled by Gold- (OSDH) offer guidance for people wanting to celebrate Hal- 10 people. man Sachs Group Inc. and Bloomberg. Over that stretch, loween this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Virus spread risk at holiday celebrations firms with sturdier finances beat weaker ones by almost 20 Because some of the traditional ways to celebrate this holi- “Celebrating virtually or with members of your own percentage points. day do not allow for proper social distancing, OSDH offers household poses low risk for spread,” the release stated. “In- It’s concerning when cash sits idle, particularly when the the following guidance to allow for safe Halloween celebra- person gatherings with people outside your household pose US. is trying to pull out of a recession at a time when uncer- tions. varying levels of risk. Event organizers and attendees should tainties around vaccines and who will be president remain “When planning to host a holiday celebration, you should consider the risk of virus spread based on event size and use high. With a new fiscal package stalled in Congress and assess current COVID-19 levels in your community to de- of mitigation strategies, as outlined in CDC guidance on the election race getting chaotic, the effect of tighter purse termine whether to postpone, cancel, or limit the number of consideration for events and gatherings.” strings in Corporate America has the potential to go beyond attendees,” OSDH stated in a news release. County specific The release added that many traditional Halloween activi- markets and become an economic story, too. information can be found online: https://coronavirus.health. ties can be higher-risk for spreading viruses. “Tn an environment where things are changing and markets ok gov/covid-19-alert-system “There are several safer, alternative ways to participate in are changing, it may be better to wait and see how things ad- Beckham is an orange-level county, as of Oct. 8, and with Halloween,” the release stated. “If you may have COVID-19 just first,” said Katy Kaminski, chief research strategist and that designation, health authorities recommend these ideas or you may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, portfolio manager for AlphaSimplex Group. “It’s less clear for Halloween: you should not participate in in-person Halloween festivities what the opportunities are.” + Permitting in-person trick-or-treating but limit groups to and should not give out candy to trick-or-treaters.” A Goldman Sachs basket of big spenders on capex has 10 or fewer, and encourage only including household mem- When participating in traditional Halloween activities, of- fallen almost 7% this year versus a gain of similar size for bers. Festivals and similar community activities that attract ficials said people should consider these ideas to be safe: the S&P 500. The basket, which strips out sector weight- high density crowds should not occur. * Bringing supplies when trick-or-treating to help you and ings to make sure no industry dominates, includes Wester _ * AVOiding indoor haunted houses or other attractions. See Halloween page 2. UU Weather 66 / Vol. 118, No. 83 Mail delivery View online Merete nls tomorrow 75 cents, 8 pgs. 580.225.3000 elkcityoknews.com