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Volume 113 Number 30 24 Pages

EAnadarko Daily News
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Companies band together for safety on It Can Wait day
A movement is accomplished through the voices and actions of many. That is why four national wireless service providers, spearheading the It Can Wait campaign, are urging people to share their commitment to never text and drive with others on Drive 4 Pledges Day, September 19. Brad Finley, Vice President of the Professional Driving School Association (PDSAO) of Oklahoma and Owner of Cowboy Driving Academy, contends that Texting and Driving is the "NEW DUI." He even has the AT&T produced video "The Last Text" displayed for all to view on the home page of his website at Cowboydriving.com . Scott Merkley, President of PDSAO, also states, "When we took Driver's Ed 30 years ago, the focus was to not drive behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Both Finley and Merkley spoke on behalf of their Association and both believe Texting is worse than DUI. They told us that drivers are proven to be 23 times more likely to have a crash while they are texting. Finley wishes they would add a new law called "DWT - Driving While Texting". Individuals can now sign up at ItCanWait.com to get resources that will help them share their commitment on social media and personalize the movement on the streets of their communities on key activation days. Aspiring to create a social stigma around this dangerous habit of texting while driving, Drive 4 Pledges Day will focus on getting individuals involved in taking the pledge to never text and drive while encouraging others in their community to do the same. These individuals will join AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Inc., Verizon and more than 200 other organizations by sharing their commitment not to text and drive while increasing awareness of the dangers. On September 19, Drive 4 Pledges Day, supporters of the movement are called to help spread the word to their families, friends and communities. Advocates will be encouraged to do things like change their social profile photos and banner to It Can Wait graphics, and share their personal pledge stories using the hashtag #ItCanWait. Offline activations will include hosting pledge drives and distributing posters in their schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. All materials such as social graphics and posters will be available for download from ItCanWait.com . Individuals joining in Drive 4 Pledges Day will be part of a variety of activations and awareness campaigns coast-to-coast, including: Nearly 2,000 Drive 4 Pledges activities will be held in communities across the nation, including more than 1,500 at high schools. Additionally, 200+ proclamations will be issued. #ItCanWait tweets and Instagram posts will stream on ItCanWait.com. A National Organizations for Youth Safety Teen Distracted Driving Prevention Summit in Washington D.C. will be held Sept. 18-20, including a rally on Sept. 19 with over 75 teens, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez, NTSB Member Christopher Hart and Aly Raisman, The Century Council Ambassador. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon will run co-branded advertising on national TV programming, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, and display the message in their tens of thousands of stores nationwide. GE Healthcare will provide its US Service vehicle fleets with It Can Wait window clings to remind its employees to be safe while on the roads. Goodyear blimps will display the message It Can Wait in the skies over Miami and Los Angeles. The It Can Wait message will be promoted across key sporting events at games and via social media. Several Major League Baseball teams will drum up support for It Can Wait by reaching out to fans during games urging them to take the pledge. Participating clubs include the Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and the Washington Nationals. NFL players will tweet their support of Drive 4 Pledges Day with their friends and fans and teams such as the Carolina Panthers will rally around the cause as well. NHL and NBA teams like the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls and the San Antonio Spurs will also be supporting the cause. Third party organizations will support the day through various activations. The Consumer Electronics Association will hold an employee and membership pledge drive and distribute messaging through social media. The National Auto Body Council will distribute messaging through social media, enewsletters, and press releases. Member collision shops will hold mini pledge drives in local communities. Net Impact, a nonprofit that empowers a new generation of leaders to work for a sustainable future, will promote the pledge as a "small step" in their Small Steps, Big Wins Campus Challenge program at colleges around the world. Youth organizations like the Girl Scouts will participate. Girl Scouts of the USA will activate its 112 councils nationwide to support It Can Wait through social media and member engagement. "Texting while driving claims too many lives, and raising awareness of this completely preventable tragedy is key to saving them," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx. "We've seen success before through our seatbelts and our drunk driving campaigns, and I both applaud the It Can Wait campaign for its efforts to raise awareness and encourage everyone to make a commitment on Drive 4 Pledges Day to drive focused and distraction-free." In fact, a ConnectSafely.orgl survey found that individuals who speak up can have a profound impact, particularly on teens. 78% of teen drivers say they're likely not to text and drive if friends tell them it's wrong or stupid. 90% say they'd stop if a friend in the car asked them to. 93% would stop if a parent in the car asked them to. 44% say that they would be thankful if a passenger complained about their texting while driving. The It Can Wait movement is making a difference. One-in-three people who've seen the texting while driving message say they've changed their driving habits2, the campaign has inspired more than 2.5 million pledges never to text and drive and the recently launched "From One Second To The Next" documentary has received more than 2 million views since Aug. 8. To take the pledge visit www.ItCanWait.com.

Approved lease not on Caddo County land
A mineral lease approved Monday during a regular meeting of the Board of Caddo County Commissioners is not county property. County clerk Patrice Dolch said Wednesday the mistake was found after the successful bidder checked the title search again. He found that 210.35 acres in Section 23-7-10 belongs to the City of Anadarko. The bid was for $128,946.99. The Daily News was also confused as to what bid went with what lease. The correct bids and properties are Sec. 17-7-9, 145 acres, $88,610.95; Sec. 35-9-10, 2 acres, $1,222.22, and Sec. 3-8-10, 1 acre, $611.11.

Sheriff's office releases its August report
The Caddo County Sheriff's Office has released the following activity report for the month of August 2013. There were 127 inmates booked into jail, with 121 carried over from the month before. Grocery costs were $27,796.41 for the 12,998 meals served. Cost of supplies was $4,055.19. There was $2,790 spent on doctor visit costs, and $388 spent on dentist visit costs. Medication costs for inmates was $2,968.70. Seven sheriff's sales were conducted and 276 civil papers were served. The deputies worked 6,187 hours and drove 35,476 miles on patrol. Total gasoline used was 2,528 gallons. The office processed eight selfdefense applications.

LUKE TOYEBO SR., of Anadarko (center) was honored at Oklahoma Baptist University's first varsity football game in seven decades. Toyebo was a running back on the 1940 team. On game day, Toyebo was named honorary team captain and opened the competition by conducting the coin toss. (Photo courtesy of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma)

No sign of economic rebound for poor or middle incomers i
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as the economy shows signs of improvement and poverty levels off, new U.S. census data suggests the gains are halting and uneven. Depending on education, race, income and even marriage, not all segments of the population are seeing an economic turnaround. Poverty is on the rise in singlemother families. More people are falling into the lowest-income group. And after earlier signs of increased mobility, fewer people are moving as homeownership declined for a fifth straight year. "We're in a selective recovery," said William H. Frey, a Brookings Institution demographer who analyzed the numbers. The annual U.S. survey of socioeconomic indicators covers all of last year, representing the third year of a post-recession rebound. The figures, released Thursday, also show a slightly faster pace of growth in the foreign-born population, which increased to 40.8 million, or 13 percent of the U.S. Last year's immigration increase of 440,000 people was a reversal of a 2011 dip in the influx, when many Mexicans already in the U.S. opted to return home. Many of the newer immigrants are now higher-skilled workers from Asian countries such as China and India. The number of immigrants in the U.S. with less than a high school diploma, who make up the bulk of the total foreign-born population, fell slightly in 2012 to 10.8 million. Immigrants with bachelor's degrees or higher rose by more than 4 percent to 9.8 million. In all, 21 states saw declines last year in their Hispanic foreign-born population, led by New Mexico, Illinois and Georgia. The number of Americans in poverty remained largely unchanged at a record 46.5 million. Single-mother families in poverty increased for the fourth straight year to 4.1 million, or 41.5 percent, coinciding with longer-term trends of declining marriage and out-ofwedlock births. Many of these mothers are low income with low education. The share of marriedcouple families in poverty remained unchanged at 2.1 million, or 8.7 percent. By race, a growing proportion of poor children are Hispanic, a record 37 percent of the total. Whites make up 30 percent, blacks 26 percent. The numbers also reflect widening economic inequality, an issue President Barack Obama has pledged would be a top priority of his administration to address. Upward mobility in the U.S. has been hurt by a tight job market and the longer-term disappearance of midskill jobs due to globalization and automation. The new census data shows that lower-income households are a steadily increasing share of the population, while middle- to higher-income groups shrank or were flat. In 2012, households earning less than $24,999 made up 24.4 percent of total households, up from 21.7 percent four years earlier. The share of households earning $50,000 to $99,999 slipped from 31.2 percent to 29.9 percent. Top-income households making more than $200,000 dipped less, from 5 percent to 4.6 percent over that period. The still-weak economy also meant fewer household moves in 2012. After showing signs of increased migration in 2011, fewer Americans were on the move, many because of few job opportunities or the inability to buy a home. U.S. migration fell by 0.2 percent in 2012 after edging up the previous year. While the number of longerdistance moves remained steady at 2.3 percent, moves within a county edged lower to 9 percent, particularly among young adults 18-34. Demographers say that suggests eroding career opportunities and a diminished ability to buy a home. Young adults typically make longdistance moves to seek a new career, while those who make local moves often do so when buying a home. Homeownership declined for the fifth year in the row to 63.9 percent. "Many Americans continue to think that a rising tide lifts all boats," said Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan economist. "But the bad news is that given the way economic growth trickles down now, the number of poor and disadvantaged will remain high unless we do more to help those in need." With poverty remaining high, food stamp use continued to climb. Roughly 15.8 million, or 13.6 percent of U.S. households, received food stamps, the highest level on record. Just over half of these households, or 52 percent, were below poverty and 44 percent had one or more people with a disability. By state, Oregon led the nation in food stamp use at 20.1 percent, or 1 in 5, due in part to generous state provisions that expand food stamp eligibility to families. Oregon was followed by more rural or more economically hard-hit states, including Mississippi, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan and Tennessee. Wyoming had the fewest households on food stamps, at 7 percent. In 45 states and the District of Columbia, poverty rates remained steady at high levels. Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation, was one of just three states posting increases, from 22.6 percent to 24.2 percent. California and New Hampshire were the others. In Minnesota and Texas, the percentage of people in poverty declined. Among the 25 largest metropolitan areas, the Washington, D.C., area had the highest median household income in 2012 at $88,233, followed by the San Francisco and Boston metro areas. The Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area had the lowest median house income at $44,402.

County meets to approve its CIP plan
A special meeting of the Board of Caddo County Commissioners was held Wednesday, Sept. 18 in the commissioners office at the Caddo County Courthouse. District 3 commissioner Brent Kinder chaired the meeting in the absence of District 2 commissioner Randy McLemore. District 3 commissioner Benny Bowling and county clerk Patrice Dolch were also present. The board met to hold a public meeting on the Caddo County Capital Improvement Plan. The board had to answer questions presented by the Association of South Central Oklahoma Governments (ASCOG) concerning inventory items in each district in order to be eligible for any ASCOG grants. Adoption of the plan was approved. The board also approved the expenditures, which consisted of a $54,500 grant which has already been paid. "The work was done and then paid for," Bowling said. The board then voted to recommend to officially close-out the CIP.

Focus on erratic behavior of Navy Yard gunman
WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators have been focusing on the erratic behavior of a former Navy reservist who law enforcement officials say was grappling with paranoia and had reported hearing voices and being followed before he gunned down 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard this week. The Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday that 34-yearold Aaron Alexis visited two hospitals in the weeks before the Monday morning rampage but denied that he was depressed or having thoughts of harming himself or others. Alexis, who died in a police shootout after the rampage, complained of insomnia during an Aug. 23 emergency room visit to the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I. He was given sleep medication and advised to follow up with a doctor. He made a similar visit five days later to the VA hospital in Washington, when he again complained of not being able to sleep because of his work schedule. His medication was refilled. Alexis appeared "alert and oriented" during the visits and denied feeling depressed or anxious or wanting to do harm, the VA said in a statement presented to lawmakers Wednesday. Two weeks before his ER visit, for instance, he complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel room and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep. Navy officials said the Newport police reported the incident to officers at the base security office, but nothing more was done about it because he did not appear to be a threat to himself or anyone else.

No injuries in fire
THOMAS, Okla. (AP) No injuries were reported after a massive fire broke out at a rural Oklahoma chemical plant. Authorities say several explosions followed the fire late Wednesday at the Danlin Industries plant near Thomas. The plant produces chemicals for the oil and gas industry. A Danlin official tells Oklahoma City television station KWTV (http://bitly/19gDxS7) that no one was at the plant when the fire broke out Wednesday night. Fire crews say the blaze is contained and they're letting it burn itself out. Residents who lived near the plant were told to evacuate in the overnight hours.

19 killed in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Syrian official says a roadside bomb has targeted a bus in the country's central province, killing 19 people. The official at the governor's office in Homs province says Thursday's explosion in the village of Jbourin also wounded four people on the bus. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regula tions. The village is predominantly Alawite, a minority sect to which President Bashar Assad belongs, but it also has Christians and Sunnis. It was not immediately clear why the bus was targeted.
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Incidentally
The Anadarko Public Schools is reminding folks during school sports events, only student ogranizations and school-sanctioned booster clubs will be allowed to sell items at school-sponsored events.

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