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2 June 19, 2021 News Carroll’s Continued from page 1. about the softest material available. They have custom de- signs that may include things unique to Elk City or bands.” Brady now lives in an apart- ment nestled above his shoe store. “Then we started BTB Records a few years ago. That space had really only been used for stor- age of shoes or display. I had Luke Kerr working for me at the time. He’s a brilliant kid. He knew my ideas on it, but urged me to do it. While I was living in New York City, I could see old school records were becom- ing a big trend. I didn’t know if St. Matthew Church youth it would work, but I felt like it along with pastor, Father would. It was kind of something Danny Grover, and Katie that I had learned from Dad as Bartlett, director of reli- a big. The goal, of course, is to gious education held Mission have your business be success- Week by assisting around ful, but in a small town, you need to have things that people town. The youth also were want and that you can’t get just able to enjoy fun doing Putt- anywhere,” Brady said. Putt Golf at Ackley Park. Brady learned customer ser- Courtesy photos. vice and anticipating consumer needs from his father. He also was urged to take specialty busi- ness risks. Brady now credits his father’s dedication and work ethic to the store’s continued success. “I miss him all the time. When House moves quickly to send Biden a bill I was a kid, he had me down there moving shoe boxes and sweeping. That wasn’t anything that my cousins weren’t doing creating Juneteenth federal holiday for my uncle Larry. The biggest takeaway from him was know- Sasha Hupka, Los Angeles “While it still seems strange to that aspiration.” country is different than a coun- Texas, announcing enslaved ing your customers and being Times that having taxpayers provide Still, some House Republicans try getting the independence to Black Americans were free, and present for them. Our name is federal employees paid time off expressed concern that there rule itself,” Lawrence said. the day came to be known as behind it,” he said. WASHINGTON — The House is now required to celebrate the was not time to issue a report Democratic lawmakers con- Juneteenth by the newly freed on Wednesday passed legisla- end of slavery, it is clear that on the budgetary effects of the nected the passage of the holi- people. Testing supports tion designating June 19 as a new federal holiday, just a day there is no appetite in Congress legislation and that the official day to ongoing racial justice is- Today 49 states and the Dis- to further discuss the matter,” name of the holiday, the June- sues and efforts to pass police trict of Columbia officially ob- theory COVID-19 after the Senate voted unani- he said. “Therefore, I do not in- teenth National Independence reform in the wake of Floyd’s serve Juneteenth and many hold mously to approve a mirror bill tend to object.” Day, could be easily confused murder. was in US before commemorating the end of slav- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a with Independence Day and Standing at a news conference celebrations. It is not recognized in South Dakota. In Texas, it is a ery in the U.S. co-sponsor of the legislation in divide Americans along racial Wednesday in front of the Capi- Christmas 2019 The rare bipartisan legisla- the Senate, said many Repub- lines. tol, Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., paid state holiday. tion, which passed 415-14, will Lawmakers in House rushed Nancy Dillon, New York Dai- licans chose to support the bill Republican Rep. Matt Rosen- said “today is not enough” and to pass the legislation Wednes- ly News now go to President Joe Biden’s because “the time couldn’t be dale of Montana called the holi- that “there’s so much more work desk just days before the date day with an eye on the calendar. more ripe” to send “a very clear day a Democratic effort to “cre- left to be done.” A new study of blood speci- arrives. June 19 is Saturday. message of reconciliation.” ate a day out of whole cloth to June 19, commonly known mens collected from 24,000 “What I see here today is racial Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., “I think he realizes this was celebrate identity politics.” as Juneteenth, celebrates the Americans found evidence that divide crumbling, being crushed said during a House Rules Com- COVID-19 likely was present in inevitable, that (Senate Major- “Since I believe in treating emancipation of enslaved Black this day under a momentous mittee hearing Wednesday that the U.S. as early as Christmas ity Leader Charles. E.) Schumer everyone equally, regardless of Americans. The Emancipation vote that brings together people he is “eternally grateful” to Eve 2019. could attach it to a must-pass race, and that we should be fo- Proclamation took effect at the The new retrospective re- who understand the value of members of the committee for bill,” Cornyn said. “And so I cused on what unites us rather stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, search, published online Tues- freedom,” said Democratic Rep. think he just made his point and than our differences, I will vote 1863, legally freeing all enslaved being “incredibly cooperative” day by the journal Clinical Infec- Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. and pushing the bill through on decided that he would relent.” no,” he said in a statement. people in Confederate states. tious Diseases, found that nine “And that is what Juneteenth is short notice. people spread across Illinois, Cornyn and Rep. Van Taylor, Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D- But it was not immediately all about.” “We certainly understand the Massachusetts, Wisconsin, R-Texas, a co-sponsor of the bill Mich., rejected the idea that implemented everywhere. In It is the first new federal holi- need to move this legislation ex- Pennsylvania and Mississippi in the House, also noted the im- the name of the holiday was many Confederate areas, includ- had detectable COVID-19 an- day since Martin Luther King Jr. peditiously and want to cooper- portance of encouraging educa- inappropriate, and Rep. Maxine ing the westernmost Confed- tibodies in their bloodstreams Day was created in 1983. Both ate with you in every way in that tion and awareness of America’s Waters, D-Calif., said she was erate state of Texas, enslaved when they participated in the campaigns encountered delay regard,” said Republican Rep. history of slavery. “disturbed” to hear Republicans people were not actually free government’s All of Us Research and controversy, but passage Tom Cole of Oklahoma. Program early last year. “I think that the aspiration raise issue with it. until much later, after the con- this time was relatively quick It’s unclear when Biden will The positive specimen col- to be better, to make progress “I want my colleague on the gressional passage of the 13th compared to the fight over MLK lected from one Illinois-based is really the series founding of other side – and I want to say Amendment in 1865. In Texas, sign the bill, but given the short Day. patient on Jan. 7, 2020, sug- our country,” Taylor said. “And I my white colleague on the other freedom finally came on June timeline, it’s unlikely that feder- gests “the virus may have been The Juneteenth bill, which think it’s important to recognize side – getting your indepen- 19, 1865. Roughly 2,000 Union al employees will be able to ob- present in Illinois as early as De- was first introduced in June we are getting a little bit closer dence from being enslaved in a troops arrived in Galveston Bay, serve the new holiday this year. cember 24, 2019,” a full month 2020 by Sen. Edward J. Markey, before Illinois confirmed its first D-Mass., in the wake of the po- official case of COVID-19 on lice killings of George Floyd and Jan. 24, 2019, the study found. Breonna Taylor, was blocked The other blood that tested positive for the antibodies was collected Jan. 8, 2020, from from passing with unanimous consent last year by Republican Producing better forecasts and saving lives: OU Massachusetts; Feb. 3, 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. from Wisconsin; Feb. 15, 2020, from Pennsylvania; and March 6, 2020, from Mississippi – Johnson said he supported recognizing the significance of lands $208 million to continue tornado research Juneteenth, but objected to the weeks prior to the first recog- cost of declaring a new federal Dale Denwalt, The Oklaho- ter forecasts and warnings, save research phase to being used advancements in the study of nized cases in those states, the researchers found. holiday, which would mandate a man lives and property," McFarquhar operationally in meteorology. weather, leading to improved The new findings corrobo- paid day off for federal employ- said. Another project is the Hazard- warning systems that will ulti- rate a recent study of archived ees. High-level research on tor- He said one of the key mis- ous Weather Testbed. mately save lives." American Red Cross blood dona- Johnson backed down this nadoes and other destructive sions at the institute will be to "We have a spring forecast CISHIWRO will continue to tion samples that found SARS- week, although he noted in a weather phenomena will con- develop reliable probabilistic experiment every year there. address some of NOAA's major CoV-2–reactive antibodies in statement Tuesday that he still tinue at the University of Okla- forecasts for tornadoes, similar This allows us to test the new research themes in addition to blood donations from Califor- objects to the “cost and lack of nia, Oregon and Washington as homa thanks to a $208 million to what's now available for hur- products that we develop and new research areas. The five re- early as Dec. 13, 2019. debate.” award from the National Ocean- ricanes. That way, meteorolo- see how weather forecasters use search themes include: weather ic Atmospheric Administration. gists can issue warnings based those products," said McFarqu- radar and observations research NOAA picked OU to host its on a forecast rather than having har. "Not only does it train the and development, mesoscale new Cooperative Institute for to wait until they detect a hook forecasters on the use of the and stormscale modeling re- Severe and High-Impact Weath- echo or other tell-tale sign of new products that we're coming search and development, fore- er Research and Operations tornadic weather. up with, but we also get feed- cast applications improvements (CISHIWRO). The institute has Using probabilistic forecasts, back from them on what is very research and development, sub- a five-year mandate, which can the public could be given specif- useful and what we can do to im- seasonal-to-seasonal prediction be extended based on successful ic warnings hours, not minutes, prove things in the future." for extreme weather events, performance. ahead of time. The award increases funding and social and socioeconomic The new institute will itself The new institute's prede- by $66 million and reaffirms impacts of high impact weather expand on the work done by cessor, CIMMS, has been both NOAA and OU's 43 years of col- systems. the Cooperative Institute for productive and influential. Over laboration, the university said. CIMMS was the largest re- Mesoscale Meteorological Stud- the past five years, CIMMS sci- "It is an extraordinary honor search organization at OU with ies (CIMMS), NOAA's previous entists have published hundreds for the university to be selected more than 220 employees. collaboration hosted in Nor- of papers that have been cited to lead the new Cooperative Staff writer Dale Denwalt cov- man. CISHIWRO will conduct thousands of times in other re- Institute for Severe and High- ers technology, aerospace and research on severe and high- search. Impact Weather Research and Oklahoma business news for impact weather, allowing mete- In 2019, CIMMS participated Operations," said OU President The Oklahoman. Have a story orologists to create better tools in a massive field study called Joseph Harroz Jr. "As Okla- idea for Dale? He can be reached that can analyze and forecast TORUS, which set researchers homa's flagship institution, our at [email protected] or weather patterns. across the Plains to monitor mission is to harness innova- on Twitter at @denwalt. Support CIMMS Director Greg Mc- severe weather formation from tion and pathbreaking discover- Dale's work and that of other Farquhar said the ultimate goal the ground and in the air. ies to advance society. Through Oklahoman journalists by pur- is to improve our basic under- Research at CIMMS has tran- the new cooperative institute chasing a digital subscription standing of weather. sitioned over two dozen algo- and the work of hundreds of re- today at subscribe.oklahoman. "That will help produce bet- rithms and products from the searchers, we will see profound com.