60 years ago, March 24, 1960
Lester Snow Wins School Board Post
Voters of the Tonkawa school district passed two tax levies and elected a new member of the school board Tuesday in light balloting at the annual school election.
Elected to office No. 5 on the board was Lester T. Snow, a farmer residing west of the city, who defeated Lonnie M. Bray, Jr. and Charles F. Veith for the post. Snow received 127 votes, Bray received 101 and Veith received 74.
Snow will succeed Murray Scott, present secretary of the board, in the office. Scott did not file for re-election.
Voters gave a 12-1 majority to a five-mill building fund levy and a 9-1 majority to a five-mill emergency levy proposition.
For the building fund proposition, there were 272 votes with only 23 opposing it. In requesting the levy, the board announced that funds derived from that source would be used to complete construction of the industrial arts - vocational agriculture building and to construct sidewalks and parking areas as needed around the new high school building.
On the five-mill emergency levy proposition, requested for the first time in recent history, 263 votes were cast for it with 28 voting against it.
Prior to the election, the board said the added money was needed if it were to purchase new school buses. Some $14,000 is expected from the levy. Funds above those needed for the buses are expected to be used in the purchase of new furniture and equipment for both the junior and senior high school and Washington elementary school.
Mrs. Arlene Mills Is Elected President of Local Beta Sigma Phi Chapter
A program by Mrs. C. E. Burr and election of officers marked the Monday evening meeting of the Gamma Nu chapter of Beta Sigma Phi held at the home of Mrs. Anna Mack. Mrs. Leonard Moses was hostess for the occasion.
Mrs. Burr used as her topic “music’s influence on our lives.”
Named to the presidency for the ensuing term was Mrs. Arlene Mills. Serving with her will be Mrs. Charles Schnorr, vice president; Mrs. Gene Salisbury, recording secretary; Mrs. Warren Wood, corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Jim Noonan, treasurer, Mrs. Mills, succeeds Mrs. W. M. Strange.
Attending the meeting were Mrs. Burr, a guest, Mrs. J. Morgan Bush, Mrs. Noonan, Mrs. G. Bryan Morgan, Mrs. Everett Mugg, Mrs. Salisbury, Mrs. Frank Scholte, Mrs. Schnorr, Mrs. McDaniel Wall, Mrs. Albert Wetmore, Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Ernest Melichar.
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