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The majority of my family has always thought it would be appropriate to attract Martin birds to dwell near our houses.
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A man who became one of Oklahoma’s most significant Civil Rights lawyers, Amos T. Hall was born on October 2, 1896, in Bastrop, Louisiana, and attended Bastrop schools. He graduated from Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi. Hall was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1925 and then to the Tulsa County Bar Association. As the attorney for the Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers, he led the fight for equal salaries for teachers via the case of Freeman v. Oklahoma City School Board (1948). He was appointed special judge of the District Court of Tulsa County in 1969 and served until 1970. In 1970, he was elected associate district judge of Tulsa County and served in that capacity until his death. Judge Hall was the first African American to be elected to a countywide office and the first African American to be elected a judge in Oklahoma.
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Clearview will be hosting a Community-Wide Garage Sale on October 3, 2020 beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the Community Center (old school grounds) 112 West Douglas Street.
Read moreOur sincere condolences and prayers to the Grundy and Zackery families upon the unfor-tunate death of Dorothy Grundy. Please keep in your prayers our sick Marguerite French, Alpheus Grundy, Billy Walker, Cornell Lucas, Otis Davis, and Kurrilue Johnson Jr., Jean Chatman, L.C. Carson, Marjorie Plunkett, and Kevin Stinnett. Please pray for his recovery. Please treat the COVID seriously, it attacks the young, the old, the strong and the weak. If you don’t want to protect yourselves, please protect others, wear a mask.
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On September 11, 2020, Donavin Evans made a tackle which caused a fumble resulting in a win for the Okemah High School Panthers football game against Pawnee High School. Donavin, a freshman, received the “Panther Punisher” for his efforts. Also, Donavin scored his first varsity touchdown on August 28 against Henryetta.
Read moreWe have had several Pandemics over the past 100 years or so. Some of them as scary as this Covid virus. The worse in our times was back 1918, the flu. The scariest one of my own time was the old infectious Polio. This virus, like COVID could kill you— quick. And It very often caused paralysis in the surviving victim’s leg or other extremities. When I was a kid back in the 1940’s I was often warned about Polio, but I had little fear of it. Like everyone else, I had other things on my mind. I was busy.
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‘Battle’ Record Ends Long run, Beaten by ‘Boy’--1959
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