CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
The holiday season is a great time to look back and smile as you remember the good old days. Do you remember the Christmas decorations made of tinsel that used to hang across Frisco Avenue?
SENSE & SENSITIVITY
ASK THE DOCTORS
Dear Doctor: Can you talk about FTD dementia, especially the type that affects behavior? I am sure that a close acquaintance has it, although she is clear-minded. Her symptoms involve increasingly strange behavior and, lately, social withdrawal.
DEAR ABBY
DEAR ABBY: I have been in a relationship for more than five years. My girlfriend and I will soon graduate from college. I have accepted a full-time job offer, and she will be going to grad school.
HAMMON – The lone loss on Arapaho-Butler boys’ basketball’s record was avenged less than a month after the defeat, when the No. 14 Indians (8-1 overall) took down the Class B, No. 12 Hammon Warriors (6-4) Thursday night in the Five-County Tournament Semifinals, 53-50.
PRAGUE – Clinton basketball opened up the Prague Tourney with a 1-1 record in its first-round games Thursday, winning the boys’ game 56-41 against Cleveland and falling in the girls’ game 57-45 to Class 5A, No. 12 Carl Albert.
CHOCTAW
Savage Brown, Judithe Anne: 79, Savage and Brown receptionist, died Dec. 12. Memorial services 2 p.m. Saturday (Bill Eisenhour NE, Oklahoma City).
DEL CITY
Lucas, Wanda Lou: 85, died Dec. 11. Celebration of life 3 p.m. Saturday (Bill Eisenhour SE, Del City).
A Mass of Christian Burial was held for Rafaela Shields, 93, former Clinton resident at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in St. Mary’s Catholic Church officiated by Father Balaswamy Mandagiri. Burial concluded in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.
It’s a lot of money – nearly $428 million – but if the Oklahoma State Department of Health gets what it has asked for in its budget for the next fiscal year it will be 1.5 percent less than the department received this fiscal year.
Attorney General Mike Hunter sent a letter to Congress, asking members to take quick action on legislation that would permanently classify illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related substances as Schedule I drugs.