Columns

Can I catch the Coronavirus? Why not? Seems like the Pope has it. Well, his staff members claim the Pope only has a cold, but he is into his second week of cancelling events. Looks suspicious to me. And the Ayatollah’s top aid just died of it.

Sirs: I was raised in Wetumka during the 40’s, 50’s, and the early part of the 60’s. Having left the area in 1965, Wetumka is still my “hometown”. Even though we have no family left in the area I still have a big warm spot in my heart for the community.

Members of the community gathered for the “Mike Snyder Celebration” Saturday night at the Enoch Kelly Haney Center on the campus of Seminole State College.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) Black Heritage Committee is organizing a tour of sites significant to the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.

In 1874, Mrs. Lena Lowery was born in Richmond, Indiana. Little is known about her early life, educational background and awards. What is known is that in 1902, she became principal of Douglass High School in Chandler, Oklahoma. The following year she married George W. F.

Texas Banner Church of God would like to invite you and your congregation to a one day conference on Sexual Purity, hosted by Josh Bullard Headmaster of Christian Heritage Academy in Del City, Oklahoma.

The only time you see gray-haired people like me on television is in commercials that only run during the evening news.

The worst of long days? Who can say? Depends on where and who you are. And did it affect your life and where your live? My first awareness of wars came on a Sunday in December of 1941.

I’m so old I can remember when folks used to “dress up” to go to church and other special places. Times have sure changed. Youngsters will spend big bucks for clothes that look like they came from a dumpster.

My dentist up at the VA Hospital had me in his chair the other day and started talking about my options on long term care of my teeth. He mentioned the fact that I was nearly 85 and then spent a few moments giving me a long searching look.