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Sometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck. I learned that the USS Lexington crew (1,100 of them) was the worse infected crew in the 7 fleet. That long line of sailors were waiting for medical attention for their recently caught VD. I went up to my workstation and learned all about it. Not any of my guys were infected. In fact, it was all on the deck divisions and some of our so called “air dales” who had gone ashore and partaken of the shore delights they should have avoided.
Read moreThose of us whose hearing is not quite as good as it used to be will appreciate the following. Regan Rose writes . . .
Read moreA 29-year-old Tupelo man who last week took a car on what he called a joyride ended up in the Coal County jail. Chief Destin Wilkerson said he responded to a residence on Pine Street the afternoon of January 26 concerning a vehicle theft. Upon arrival at the residence, a woman reported that Dannie Gene Kelsey had driven away in a black Ford Fusion and was headed toward SH 48. Two women were at the residence.
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Services for Ola Fay (Hampton) Reed of Coalgate were held Friday, January 28, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Coalgate, OK. Pastor Jim Lewis officiated. Burial was at Moore Cemetery.
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Service for David “Sonny” Abe Williams a Caney, OK resident, will be held Friday, February 4 , 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at the Atoka Funeral Home, Atoka, Oklahoma with Dennis Powell officiating. Burial will be in Bera Cemetery, Atoka, Oklahoma with Atoka Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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1969 Coalgate HS graduate Tommy Loudermilk will be inducted into the prestigious Athletic HOF on Memorial Day Weekend 2022. A process that began in February 2021 when the selections were announced will finally come to fruition. Covid-19 postponed the 2021 ceremony so that the inductees will at last get their “Day in the Sun.”
Read moreA January 18 traffic stop for defective tag lights led to the arrest of an Idabel man for possession of controlled drugs with intent to distribute and ultimately a court order to stay out of Coal and Atoka Counties.
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