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November 18, 2020 2020 Tax Statements will be mailed Nov. 23 ELK CITY Due to the rise in COVID cases, we have several options for you to use to pay will be applied at checkout.) If you call our office during working ‘The Courthouse will be closed for Christmas December 24, 2020 and 25th. JAIL LOG your taxes to avoid an IN PERSON visit hours 8am-4pm and your call is not an- Questions and concerns can be an- John Standingwater, 12/26/80, was arrested on November to our office. swered try back at a later time. We have swered by emailing bkcotreasegmail.com 16 for a local warrant. We strongly encourage you to use the anew phone system that will not give a By Phone 580-928-2589 Daniel Joseph Castro, 9/15/82, was arrested on November following options for paying your taxes busy signal. Please have patience as we Website: https://okcountytreasurers. 19 for domestic assault and battery by strangulation and a safely and timely. try our best to serve the tax payers and com/beckham Washita County hold. *Mail your payments, we accept answer any questions you may have. Ronald Dale McKee, 6/19/64, was arrested on November postmarks (using the return envelope ‘The Courthouse will be closed for December 31st is the deadline to pay 19 for a Beckham County warrant. enclosed). ‘Thanksgiving starting at noon on No- half ofyour taxes. Please make sure your Marco Antonio Willarreal, 7/9/91, was arrested on Novem- *Pay online (convenience fee will be vember 25, 2020, 26, and the 27th. We payment is postmarked. ber 19 for domestic abuse. applied at checkout). will reopen for normal business hours ‘Thank you, Jennifer Drury *Pay over the phone (convenience fee November 30, 2020 at 8am. Beckham County Treasurer BECKHAM CO. OP-ED Astra-Oxford vaccine JAIL LOG November 19 found effective in ‘The power to tax is the power to destroy- PPP deduct- ibility must be fixed now Marco Villarreal, 29-year-old male. Ronald McKee, 29-year-old male. By Brett Wesner, President, Wesner Publications, Cordell Chair, National Newspaper Association preventing COVID John Standingwater, 39-year-old male. November 20 ‘The coronavirus pandemic has laid much of the Ameri- By Suzi Ring and Naomi of 62%. Among those who Daniel Castro, 38-year-old male. can economy on its back — but a bright spot made the Kresge, Bloomberg News received the vaccine, there Jeremy Bacquet, 41-year-old male. disaster less crippling than it it have been. That is the Paycheck Protection Program, funneled money to were no severe cases and no A COVID-19 vaccine workers through small businesses. developed by the University of participants were hospitalized. November 23 More than five million small businesses took the PPP ‘The group is planning to sub- Isabella Bass, 21-year-old female. loans, representing 50 million jobs, Treasury Secretary Oxford and AstraZeneca Ple StevenMauchintold Congressin June tt persuadedsmall prevented a majority ofpeople mit the data for peer review in usinesses to keep people on the payroll instead of laying from getting the disease ina the next 24 hours. them off.joe ‘economy. large trial, another promis- Astra shares dropped as Congress said the loans would not be taxed. But Con- gress is letting the IRS tax the businesses anyway. Unless ing development in the quest to end the pandemic, and much as 3.2% in London, los- new legislation is passed by the end of the year, the tax the rollout could begin next ing ground after SVB Leerink could finish off many of the businesses that are trying des- month. analyst Geoffrey Porges said perately to hang on through this impossible economy. ‘The vaccine stopped an the vaccine would "never be ‘The way the 4mment is going to punish the busi- average of 70% of partici- licensed’ in the US. because MARRIAGE LICENSES nesses that saved 50 million jobs is to deny the deduction of pants from falling ill, an early payroll, rent and other expenses that they paid out with the of questions around the data. Carter Muncrief, Carter - Mindy Martin, Carter PPP money. The Treasury Department, which sets policy for analysis of the data show. The Highlighting the 90% efficacy DIVORCES IRS, doubled down this week by reiterating that businesses effectiveness rose to 90% for ina subset of trial participants Raymond Parker vs Mecca Parker will have to pay taxes on that money, even though they nor- one of two regimens, using mally would be able to deduct these business expenses. half a dose followed by a full was an effort to “embellish” Summer James vs Kody James A bipartisan group of senators and representatives have one later, close to the high bar the results, he said. Megan Smith vs Donald Smith Jr ‘been pushing fora change, but not pushing so hard that set by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna "The suggestion by the in- they are accomplishing the one thing that is needed to fix Inc. ventors that the small sample this problem: pass a new law. Astra and Oxford officials “When we developed and passed the Paycheck Protec- said they're preparing to sub- given the lower priming dose tion Program, our intent was clearly to make sure small mit the findings to regulators was evidence of superior ef- businesses had the liquidity and the help they needed to ficacy only brings discredit to get through these difficult times,” Sen. Charles Grassley, R- and don't expect the different Towa, said when he introduced the Small Business Expense outcomes in the study to af- the program," Porges said in a MISDEMEANORS Protection Act, $ 3612, with a bipartisan group of senators. fect the process. The U.S. could report. sees aus Chany State of Okla vs Casey L Legrande DUI “Unfortunately, Tre: and the IRS interpreted the law in potentially take longer to sign a way that’s preventing businesses from deducting expenses off because a clinical trial in comment on the note. The FELONIES associated with PPP loans. That's just the opposite of what that country will need more we intended and should be fixed. This bill wil do just that.” time before it delivers results. stock is still up about 30% State of Okla vs Susan R Herring DUI. DUS. TOC. Leaving Unemployment this year hit nearly 15% — the highest the nation has seen since the Great Depression. If business- "Our goal was to make since mid-March, but Mod- the scene of an accident. Possession of paraphernalia es had not kept their payrolls running through PPP, unem- sure we can have a vaccine erna and Pfizer shares surged State of Okla vs Shawn D Callahan Possession of CS ployment would have zoomed even higher. Yet businesses that is accessible everywhere," when they reported their ‘made the leap offaith — kept their people working, spent Andrew Pollard, who is leading results. State of Okla vs Jeremiah R Schneberger DUI the PPP money as directed and nowfor their good citizen- the Astra-Oxford trials, said ship, they are going to be punished with a tax. Monday at a press briefing. "I “The power to tax is the power to destroy. Chief Justice think we have actually man- John Marshall was right. Congress should wake up. It didn’t aged to do that." spend trillions in tax dollars to prop up the economy only to ‘The results, based on trials allow one agency to undo its good work. PPP deductibility in the U.K. and Brazil, were re~ must be fixed now. viewed after 131 participants ‘The National Newspaper Association represents 1,600+ com- contracted COVID-19. The full munity newspapers across the United States. two doses showed an efficacy A Thibute toas AT Jones‘ Evidently the Good Lord needed a Big League Ball player for His team so He called you home. No man ever had a better friend (more like a brother) or teammate. Thank God for allowing us to share our lives together. Dear God: Help me be a good sport in this game of life. | don’t ask for an easy place in the lineup. Put me anywhere you need me. | only ask that | can give you 100 percent! of everything | have. If all the hard drives seem to come my way, I thank you for the BLACK FRIDAY ONLY! compliment. Help me remember that you never send a player more trouble than he can handle. And help me, Lord, to accept the bad breaks as part of the game. May | always play on the square no matter what the others do. Help me study the Book so 'll know the rules. Finally God, if the natural turn of events goes against me and I'm benched for sickness or old age, help me to accept that as part of the game, too. Keep me from whimpering that|was framed or that| got a raw deal. And when | finish the final inning, !!ask for no laurels. Ail | want is to believe in my heart that | played as well as | could and that I didn’t let you down. A.T. always gave 110%I!! 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