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March 6, 2021 e Detailing are just people trying to do the Right now, Morgan does his the house ifI don’t have a car to Retire “It is $85 for cars, $95 for best by their city. SUVs and mid-sized trucks, and detailing outside the home he detail. Some weeks I will have He said, “We raise our kids $100 for the large trucks. Ionly recently bought with his girl- several, other weeks I might not jump it up five dollars between friend Abby Home he plans have any,” he said. Continued from page 1. right alongside yours. We live Continued from page 1. beside you and eat beside you. each. As I said, I don't reall ‘Morgan has been dating Abby charge extra if a car is dirtier. for three years and says that she re thought about doing Just as he had spent about ten The big majority of city em- supplies, I really hadn’t made Most of my customers are really mobile detailing, but thereis so years on patrol, he transitioned ployees, whether they are at the any money on it. But the cus- good to me and know if their much competition here, I don’t is his partner in all his endeav- ors. police department or the water tomer was really happy with it to the administration side of the car is dirtier than what the price know if that would work. My police department after about department or anywhere else, and it got me more customers. should be, so they will tip me a dream is to have a stationary “My next big project will be paint restoration. I have some- ten years asa detective. So I look at that as worth it in little bit extra. And for me, it re- detailing place and make that really do want to serve their “Administration is dealing neighbors. My life working with the long run.” ally is satisfying to see the hap- what I do full time. One of my one teaching me who knows more with the department and For the most part, Morgan piness on their face to see their bad habits is being restless when how to do it and I’m excited to how it functions. It has more the police department has been charges a set price for his detail- car the way it was when they I am bored. If I am at home offer that service to my custom- to do with actually running the an honor.” ing. first bought it.” when Abby is working, I clean ers. department and making sure patients and that of course was the old-school radio plays. We anonymity. She couldn't have Baden we have all we need. We have to “It is a 50-bed acute care center make sure we have enough man- that focuses mostly on things the top priority. But phone lines all loved living there and it is that in Oregon because it was power and equipment. We have like spine and neuro. They do were down and I couldn’t call my where I first became a director smaller and her parents were so to go to the city government and other things, but they are a hid- family. Shannon andI felt that of a cancer facility. But when involved in the towns that we tell them the needs of the de- Continued from page1. den gem in the OKC healthcare made Oregon more attractive.” this new job was offered to me, knew everything that was go- partment. During that time that system. I learned so much and Baden started in hospital ad- as much as we will miss Oregon ing on,” Baden laughed. I was a detective, we saw Elk she never misses a beat with was able to advance in ways I ministration in Klamath Falls, and the friends we made there, ‘Though much has changed City grow a lot and crime rose our daughter. I’m really thankful didn’t foresee.” Oregon, before being recruited T'm excited to take the next step about his life, Baden maintains with it. We were still respond- that we can go through life with ‘That wise move set Baden on away to a coastal town a few in my career. And as a family, the same quirky humor he was ing to those needs when I came these shared values,” Baden ex- a trajectory outside of the state. hours away called Coos Bay. we always love going to a new famous for some twenty years into the administration side. So plained. “Well, I was offered that “Shannon and I really got place. We actually have family ago at Elk City High School. it is a lot of working with the partnership with the city and Baden’s early career in nursing through my first job in Or- into the communities there. here in the Tahoe area. My aunt He credits the school and some just making sure your staff has prepared him for his future. The egon, but it was also working She grew up in Oklahoma City and uncle are here. It is just of its teachers with laying the everything they need to do their workaholic was putting in shifts there that made me feel like and had never lived in a smaller gorgeous and we already spent foundation for his future suc- jobs,” he said. with the ICU, ER, and neurology the weather in Oklahoma was place. The populations of both quite a bit of time here because cess. Ever dedicated to the job, departments at two hospitals in something I needed to leave,” places are about 30,000. We it isn’t that far from Klamath. “I've been fortunate enough Shirey has accumulated quite a the Oklahoma City metro. Baden said, half-joking. “When jumped in feet first into the civ- That’s where we would have to make friends in a lot of plac- bit of excess vacation and sick “Then I got my big break when that 2013 tornado struck, I was ic organizations. We were both friends fly into when we were es, but you guys were the first. time, I was offered a job at the Com- at the clinic for days. We were on the boards of the Boys and there. And Hannah is happy It was out there that I learned With retirement rapidly ap- munity Hospital on Southwest to be in a school with a 1,000 to stand on my own two feet,” proaching, he is eager for more 89th Street in OKC,” he said. without power and couldn't Girls Clubs. I did radio spots for leave. We had to take care of our healthcare questions, but also other students and get some he said. family time. He and his wife Cathy, who operates the Sugar Shack in Elk City, have two DC National Guard chief testifies day that on Jan. 6, then-acting Salesses and Walker both tes- daughters and two grandchil- Secretary of Defense Christo- tified that in the days leading up dren. He jokes that Cathy will pher Miller at 3 p.m. authorized to the Jan. 6 assault, local D.C. not be turning him into a baker the full activation of the D.C. officials, federal law enforce- any time soon. Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles tol siege was an act of “domestic “It’s an elaborate process, but National Guard. About 90 min- ment authorities and Capitol “Grandkids are the funnest Times terrorism,” He said his agency it doesn’t always have to be. utes later, after hashing out the Police only requested National part of life,” Shirey gushed, “I’m had about 2,000 open domestic .. We can get it done over the details about the Guard's mis- Guard help to control traffic, not WASHINGTON — The Penta- terrorism investigations, up sig- phone,” he said. sion, Miller approved deploy- protests. excited to have more free time gon took more than three hours nificantly from a year ago, and Walker said he was particular- to spend with them and all of ment of the troops to the Capi- Walker also complained about to dispatch National Guard that his agency was scrambling ly irked by the reaction of Army tol. what he described as “unusual” my family. And I am just going troops to help quell the Jan. 6 to get its hands around what he leaders to pleas for help from Under questioning from Sen. restrictions on his ability to to relax and fix things around siege of the U.S. Capitol even as described as the “metastasizing” Sund, the former Capitol Police Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Salesses said deploy his forces. He needed the house that need to be fixed. police pleaded for assistance in problem. chief. During a 2:20 p.m. phone he could not explain why Army specific authorization from the I'm just gonna sit and enjoy life repelling the pro-Trump mob, Federal agents and lawmakers call, as the Capitol was being leaders took another 40 min- Pentagon's leadership, for ex- and play with those grandkids” the commander of the D.C. Na- are trying to piece together how breached, Sund asked Army of- utes to alert Walker that he was ample, to supply his troops with Shirey’s hobbies include fish- tional Guard testified Wednes- hundreds of rioters — many ficials to permit Walker to dis: cleared to dispatch his troops. protective gear or to shift them ing, hunting, building in his day before Congress. with radios, climbing gear, pro- patch his troops to the Capitol. “That's an issue,” Salesses said. toa different street corner. woodwork shop, and gardening. Maj. William J. Walker said tective vests and weapons — ‘Army officials balked, explain- Walker testified that after Salesses testified that mili- He prefers his eggs over easy that he had received a “frantic” managed to elude detection by ing they did not like the optics his first call with Sund, he be-tary officials issued such restric- call from former Capitol Police the nation’s premiere law en- of having uniformed troops on gan getting ready to deploy his tions because they were “mind- and cannot think of a favorite Chief Steven Sund at 1:49 p.m. forcement and intelligence agen- the Capitol grounds, according forces. He summoned about 150 ful of observations and lessons movie, book, or tv show. that day seeking his help amid cies, Lawmakers are also trying to testimony last week from troops to an armory, had them learned” from criticism of how ‘After 30 years of services, the growing riot, one that would to figure out why it took so long Sund and Robert J. Contee III, put on their gear and loaded the Trump administration de- Shirey says he will mostly miss leave five people dead and doz- for reinforcements to arrive to the acting chief of the Metro- them onto buses. ployed troops in response to his fellow employees and the ens of police officers injured. help police, who were outnum- politan Police Department. “At that point, seconds mat- civil unrest. Activists and local citizens of Elk City. He acknowl- “Chief Sund, his voice crack- bered and overwhelmed. Walker said that the Army tered, minutes mattered, need- officials have decried what they edges that sometimes working ing with emotion, indicated that The hearing came as thou- leaders on that call — includ- ed to get there as quickly as pos- described as the Trump admin- for the city, whether in the po- there was a dire emergency on sands of National Guard troops ing Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the sible,” he said. Once approval istration’s heavy-handed tactics lice department or other depart- Capitol Hill and requested im- are still patrolling the fortified brother of Trump's fired nation- arrived, Walker said, his soldiers last year in breaking up pro- ments, can ignite criticism from mediate assistance of as many Capitol, and officials remain al security adviser Michael Fly- reached the Capitol in about 20 tests, particularlya peaceful one Guardsmen as I could muster,” on high alert for potential vio- nn — told Sund that “it would minutes. near the White House. a small number of disgruntled ‘Walker said. lence from right-wing extrem- not be their best military advice citizens. But, overall, he knows ‘The National Guard had about ists angry that President Donald to the secretary of the Army to that the people doing this work Trump lost the election, Capi- have uniformed guardsmen on 150 soldiers in the area, Walker said, that he could have quickly tol Police issued a statement the Capitol.” Ida Glasgow Round sent to the Capitol. But the com- Wednesday saying they “have mander said he was not allowed to deploy his troops without “I was just as stunned as ev- obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot to breach the said, eyene else on the call,” Walker Ida Faye Glasgow was born permission from top Defense Capitol by an identified militia An Army — spokeswoman March 4th, 1938 in Albuquer- Town Department officials. It took more than three hours group” on Thursday, the day on did not immediately respond which some right-wing conspir- Wednesday to a request for que, New Mexico. Shortly af- ter birth she was adopted by to obtain their assent, he testi- acy theorists hope Trump will comment from Flynn and an- April1 fied, far longer than in the sum- return to power. other Army leader, Lt. Gen. her family Faye (Hatchet) and Shop Hop, participating mer when the Trump adminis- ‘At Wednesday's hearing, sen- Walter Piatt, who was also on Ray Rowlan. She passed away businesses open late utnil 7 tration cracked down on racial ators zeroed in on delays Walker the call. The Army declined last Saturday, February 27th, 2021 p.m. justice protests and unrest. On Jan. 6, Walker's first soldiers did experienced in trying to dis- week to address the allegations by Sund and Conte and issued patch troops to the Capitol. They at Elk City, Oklahoma at the not reach the Capitol grounds a statement that the Pentagon's also contrasted those setbacks age of 82 years, 11 months and April3 until about 5:20 p.m. with what Walker experienced inspector general “is now re- 23 days. Chamber of Commerce An- “Twould have sent them there months earlier. The National viewing the details of the prepa~ nual Easter Ege Hunt, immediately,” Walker said. “That Guard commander testified that ration for and response to the Ida Faye grew up in Rocky, is where the fire was, and it he received approval “within Jan. 6 protest and attack on the Oklahoma and graduated from needed to be put out.” minutes” last year to deploy to U.S. Capitol. We intend to allow April 10 Walker joined three other racial justice protests, that process to proceed inde- Lake Valley High School ily water skiing or being an Annual Southwest Farm & national security officials ap- He could not explain why pendently. in 1956. After graduation avid OU fan. Home Expo and Bull Sale, pearing at a joint hearing before there was such a long delay on Robert G. Salesses, a top Pen- she attended Southwestem She is preceded in death by Convention Center. the Senate Rules and Homeland Jan. 6, tagon official, testified Wednes- Oklahoma State College in Security committees, among her parents; husband; 2 sis- several congressional panels Weatherford, Oklahoma on a ters, Vinnie Lou Shepherd and April 11 Annual Southwest Farm & investigating what transpired Jerry Neal softball scholarship. She was Shirley Andrews. Jan. 6 when a mob stormed the later married to Harry Edward Home Expo and Bull Sale, Capitol to prevent the certifying Ida Faye is survived by her ‘Convention Center, of electoral votes, which formal- Jerry Joe Neal of Coving- Glasgow in Oklahoma City, son, Neil Glasgow and wife, ized Joe Biden as winner of the ton, GA died unexpectedly of Oklahoma on September 1, presidency. 1961. They made their home Debora, Burns Flat, OK; her Due to the COVID-19 In addition to congressional a heart attack on February 23, bonus daughter, Cheri Geroge pandemic, many events have inquiries, the Justice Depart- 2021 at the age of 73. in the Oklahoma City metro ment has launched a wide-rang- area for a large portion of their and husband, Jack, Martins- been cancelled, post-ponedor Jerry was preceded in death burg, WV; 5. grandchildren, modified. Please check with ing probe into the attack and has arrested nearly 300 people by his parents Ozell Neal and career. In 1974, after Harry’s the event coordinator to make Virginia (Sollers) Neal-Vo- retirement, they moved to Jared Schneberger and wife, on charges stemming from the sure of any changes. riot. On Tuesday, FBI Director gle, his stepdaughter Frankie Lake Texoma and then to Fal- Crystal, Cory Schneberger| Christopher Wray said the Capi- (Farmer) Merrell, and grand- con Head in 1979 where they and wife, Meredith, April daughter Natalya Bellah. spent much of their time on Glasgow, Kyle Glasgow and "ElkCituNews Jerry is survived by his wife the golf courses in that area. Brandi Bannister and hus- Tammy Neal, his brother Leo In the mid 80’s they moved band, Keith; numerous great Neal (wife Sherry) of Law- south of Elk City where they grandchildren and great great very serious, loved good old ton, OK, two children Angelia fashion rock-n-roll, played the lived directly across from the grandchildren; 4 brothers, Don (USPS # 173-020) Cozzens and Coby Neal both 9th hole at the Elk City golf Andrews, Brian Andrews, Ray guitar better than he thought, 580-225-3000 of Denver, CO, step-children enjoyed big boy toys, sur- course. Andrews and Tom Andrews; Cody Farmer (wife Melanie) vived a motorcycle crash and For the better part of 20 2 sisters, Delma Wingo and Is published twice weekly by Beckham County Media, LLC of Van Buren, AR, Cody Bel- years Ida Faye was a member Sharron Andrews and a host of 109 W. Broadway, EU Ik City, OK 73644-4736 cancer, he picked cotton as a of the Sweet Adeline singing lah (wife Kelly) of Monroe, other relatives and friends. Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 GA and Jennifer Bellah of kid and drove a tractor as a group that traveled around the Graveside services will be Covington, GA and 6 grand- teen. He taught school, raised United States preforming and POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644 cattle, worked in the oil field competing at different venues. held Saturday, March 6th, kids Cole, Kate, Lana, Madi- and then finally landed in the She was also a prefect seam- 2021 at 2:00 PM, at Lawn- SUBSCRIPTIONS Josh Umholtz son, Grady and Gretchen. view Cemetery in Cordell, Publisher environmental businesses ever stress making costumes for her Deliverd by mail: Jerry was born in Elk City, since he moved to the Atlanta ‘Sweet Adeline group and also Oklahoma officiated by Rev. $75iyearly Amy Loynd OK January 22, 1948, He Kevin Baker. Arrangements $50/six months Business Manager graduated from Berlin High area in the early 90’s. He was made clothing for Barbie dolls are under the direction of School and Cameron Univer- the kind of grandpa that would to send to children. Ida Faye No refunds on subscriptions. Neva Pyatt and Harry spent much of their Chris Whinery and the staff Advertising Director sity. play tea party or sing silly ka- He loved his family and raoke. He loved to play silly time on the golf course golfing of Affordable Cremation Ser- editor @ecdailynews.com D’Ann Brasuell and when not there you could vice-West. Condolences can sports @ecdailynews.com Production Manager friends with all his heart, loved pranks and was often seen [email protected] find her with her cats, travel- be made online at www.clas- Maressa Margerum the lord Jesus, took choos- with a smile. He will be deep- sicfunerals.com classifieds @ecdailynews.com Customer Service Rep ing the perfect greeting card ly missed. ing, on the lake with her fam-