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BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP If it saves lives, chances are it runs on electricity SEEP HEEP And vit runs on electricit8 chances are it's OG&E electricity. The choice of people who can't take chances. Powerat the speed of life. Downtown Oklahoma Ci& OK Myriad Convention Center & Plaza For Ticket Information I Call (405) 427-5228 3s OklahomaCi& OK 73111 OKLAHOMA . TODW . m- i VISIT --- -B Oficial Magazine of the State of Oklahoma I Frank Keating, Governor Tour the Creek Council House JEANNE M. DEVLIN National Historic Editor-in-Chief Landmarkbuilt JOANHENDERSON in 1878 and General Manager restored in 1993. STEVENWALKER, WALKER CREATIVE, INC. Experience the Art Direction history and I NANCY WOODARD, Associate Editor culture of the LISA BRECKENRIDGE, OfFceManager Muscogee see@ BRIAN C. BROWN, Advertising Manager BECKY ISAAC, Asst. Ofice Manager people. Enjoy JANELEONARD, Ancillary Products shopping for MELANIE MAYBERRY, Circulation Manager I unique Native PAM POSTON, Subscription Services ANGI WARD, Clerical American @s I . . . . . . in the Red Contributing Editors BURKHARD BILGER, J.P. CARTER, M. SCOTT CARTER, ' Stick Gallery. DAVID CRENSHAW. STEFFIECORCORAN.DAVID ' FITZGERALD, THOM HUNTER, MAURA MCDERMOIT, RALPH MARSH, W.K. STRATTON, and MICHAELWALLIS For more information, contact the Creek Council House Museum (918) 7562324 or the Okmulgee Chamber of Commerce (918) 7566172 Advertking Representative CAROLE A. LEE Interns AIMEE J. DOWNS SUSAN VAN HOOK I Contributing Staff PAM FOX, ESTHER WARD, Accounting Tourism and Recreation EDWARD H. COOK, ExecutiveDirector Tourism and Recreation Commission LT. GOV. MARY FALLIN, Chairman PAlTY ROLOFF. Secretarv CLARK STAN ' MEREDITH FRAILEY JONATHAND. HELMERICH JOEMARTIN KENNETH R. SCHRUPP JOHN WEST ROBERT E. YOUNG . . . . . . OklahomaCityAdvertisingSales Office,P.O. Box 53384, OklahomaCity, OK 73152, (405) 521-2496 or (800)777-1793. Oklahoma Today (ISSN 0030-1892)is published biionthlv in February, April, be,A ugust, 0ctob&, and December by'the I State of Okkhoma, OklahomaTourism and Recreation .. . Department, 401 WillRogers Bldg, P.O. Box 53384, Oklahoma . City, OK 73152, (405) 521-2496 or (800) 777-1793. Subscription . prices: $13.50 per year in U.S.;$21.50 per year outside US. . U.S. copyright@ 1996by Oklahoma Today magazine. Reproductionin whole or in part without permissionis . prohibited. The magazine is not responsiblefor unsolicited . material for editorial consideration. I Printed at PennWell Printing, Tulsa. : INTERNATIONAL REQIONAL , MAWINE ASSOCIATION Second-classpostage paid at Oklahoma City, OK, and additional . entryoffices. Postmaster: Send addresschanges to Oklahoma .. .%:.. z-,,.. .,.-. 7*%+.A -.s;s: Today Circulation,P.O. Box53384,0klahom~City, OK 73152. . A p r i l M a y 1 9 9 6 ... Let The Olympics Begin w T A THENTHEOLYMPIC TORCH BEGINS ITSWAY ACROSS THEUNITED Statesthismonth, it seemsfitting that it will not only wind through Okla- homa but pause at the site of the Alfred P. Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City. A hundred years old this year, the Olympic Games remain one of the enduring examples of what we as humans can accomplish; the bomb site, as much a memorial to the resilience of the human spirit as it is a poignant reminder of the dark side of human nature. The torch did not have to pass by this way. Torch relay organizers left it to Okla- homa to decide, and Oklahoma left it to the survivors and victims' families. As the first anniversary of April 19,1995, comes and goes, their decision to have the world stop at our door once more recalls the line of an editorial the Daily Oklahoman ran onA pril 26,1995: "We invite them allto return one day to experience our normalcy." The families and survivors rose above their own pain and loss because they believe the opportunity to extend Oklahoma's well-known hospitaiity to the Olympic Torch Relay is an honor. And indeed it is. The torch relay begins April 27 in California; it ends fifteen thousand miles later on July 19 as the games begin in Atlanta. In between it will travel through forty-two states and most of central Oklahoma where hinetypercent of the population willcome within a two-hour drive of seeing it. "We tried to touch as many people as possible," said Sherry Jennings of the Torch Relay Advance Team. The torch will travel by foot, bike, and a customized Union Pacitic train (thelatter of which has been painted Union Pacific yellow and outfitted with a modified ca- boose that will hold the Olympic torch). It will spend Days 22 and 23 (of eighty-four days on the road) in Oklahoma, visiting Ponca City fo-r lunch, Jehgs( pop. 381) and Yale for ceremonies, Stillwater for dinner, and Prague for three midnight ceremonies (includingo neP on Moccasin Road near on May 18. On May 19, it heads south to Oklahoma City (''wda running all through the city," promises Jennings) -, where the torch boards a train far Nosman. After a r. ceremony at Norman's renovated depot, the torch winds south on mcksthat shadow 1-35 and run through (or close by) Noble, Purcell, ~ Wayne, Paoli, Pads Valley,Wynnewwd, Davis, Dougherty, Gene Autry, Arhre, Marietta, and Thackerville, before crossing the Red River bound for Fort Worth. On itsjourney, the torch relay also. plans brief fifteen minute breaks in Pawnee, Guthrie ' and Edrnond (allof whom have mrned what is basically a rest stop into a full-blown shindig-"wh . is just wonderful," says Jennings) With the Olympics not due to be held in the States again until after the year 2000, this year's relay will be an experience we won't see again century, which makes the task of the swenty- plus Oklahomans who will carry the torch, just that much sweeter. O k l a h o m a T o d a y W In ~ e w it's Avenue. YO&, In Ka- City, it's The pI.aza. ery, heritage, and traditions, as well as the away the bombing had affected people was hospitality of its people. All of this is so well inthe week just prior to our trip (about April reflected in your publication. 30). The U.S. National Soccer Team was in We were particularly appreciativeo fyour Brussels for a match with the Belgians. A ,.. Special Memorial Issue, which was such a moment of silence was held before the game. poignant and moving record of the courage Only because Oklahoma City sounded the and humanity mankind exhibited in the af- same as in English did I understand what 1 termath of this evil act. That same evil was was taking place. echoed in Scotland-in Dublane-last I've seen moments of silence before a month, and such tragedies ofhuman suffer- game before, I've been in such scenes before; ing can only be overcome by our own forti- never have I seen (or heard) such a quiet. It tude and the love of God. showed me that many people were upset at Ted and JoyceH oward the events here. Darlington, England Once in Brussels, whenever anyone found CC-~ h iand ~the OCf FD,~0klah~oma ~ ~Oklah~o ma mourns Scotland's loss, and our out that we were from Oklahoma, we were Today's 1995 Oklahoman of the Year. prayers are withyou. told how disturbed they were. We were approached about it by Belgians-even ONE YEAR LATER I commend you on your well thought other Americans. It was astounding. May I offer you a particular British con- special issue on the bombing. I'm quite The most surprising thing was that while gratulations on the continuing excellence of impressed by the way it was done. I was watching TV in our hotel, we saw a report Oklahoma Today, which we have received reminded of seeing a view of the whole that showed there was a building in Bonn regularly for over two years through the thing from another perspective-the Eu- very similar to the Murrah building. In a courtesy of friends in Oklahoma City. We ropean view. country that has also experienced terrorism, have visited the state twice in recent years Last May, my wife and I traveled to Brus- such as Germany, I was shocked to find that and have grown to love and admire its scen- sels, Belgium. Our first look at just how far THEY had learned from the Oklahoma O k l a h o m a T o d a y .& bombing. It is now not possible to park destructive hate can be. Thank you for a there that showed films during the day. Up within a block of that building in Bonn. job well done. the street was a pool hall where I could go I thought that you and your readers might Peggy Garrett in and play. There were buildings that were find these small glimpses that my wife and I Harrah higher than two stories, and paved streets had interesting. It's nearly a year later, and that had names. Wow! Tiny town indeed- we still think about the many who came A SPECIAL THANKS have you ever been to Arapaho or Eakly? from so far to help. May they always know Wew ould like to thank Ryder Truck Rental RossF. Cooke we thank them. And thank you for the spe- ofMiami Florida, for donating the truck that Henderson,Nevada cial issue. carried thousands of Oklahoma Today's AndrewWarwick 1995 Year-in-Review issues safely to A CORRECTION Tulsa Oklahoma City in timefor our announcement We've personally typed in the toll-free of the Oklahoma City Fire Department a.the numberfm tourism information in Oklahoma I thought that I had cried all the tears that 1995Oklahoman of the Yearfori ts rescue and so many times, we know it better than our own. I possibly could over the bombing, until I recovery efforts during the bombing. Or so we thought, unt i1we inadvertentlym ade received my copy of Oklahoma Today (Win- it a (405) number in our annual Travel issue. ter, 1996). The names were all too familiar, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CLINTON? For those who were leftconfised, our apologies but now there were faces to go with the Everything is relevant, it would seem. On and the correct number, 1-800-652-6552. names. the contents page of your Travel issue As I ghmpsed into their brief lives, my (March, 1996),I find, "...the ultimate hom- Oklahoma Today welcomes the views of grief at this senseless act again overwhelmed age to the Mother Road may be found in the its readers and prints letters on a space- me. It took a while to get through it, but tiny town of Clinton." available basis. Letters are subject to editing what a wonderful tribute to the victims and I was born and grew up out at Thomas. and must be signed. Send them to: Editor- their families. My teen-age years were spent there in the in-Chief, Oklahoma Today, P.O. Box I plan to keep this issue to show my chil- early Thirties. A trip to Clinton was an 53384, Oklahoma City, OK 7315 2, or fax dren and their children just how ugly and event. My goodness, there was a theater them to (405) 522-4588. he multicolored sunsets in the United States. That's the quality of life we're accustomed to here in uymon. It's the kind of life you're gonna love. - -: -?----;--: -.-" I . For your free Guymon information packet, write the Guymon Chamber of Commerce, Route 3, Box 120,Guymon, OK 73942. Or call (405) 338-3376. From a small Oklahoma 6f P Y ideas. CHERUBS RULE United Design of Noble is known for its earth-friendly ways, which is why . ANGEL ON HIGH it makes its line of A bird could happily garden ornaments bathe here, but in out of garden-safe ': i actuality this best-selling resin (it's actually . (and much photo- recyded ash graphed) piice by united retrieved from coal- Design's Ken Memoli fired power plants). ': and Dianna Newburn is This cherub is by . a fountain, anda designer Ken running fountain Memoli. 12"x 16", (completewith recircu- $130. (405)8 72- : latingpump) at that. . $430. I WATCH YOUR STEP United Design's Midge Ramsey says-the elt tic II ': motifs of her stepping- . stones were inspired not by the Irish but by Mother Nature herself. $24. O k l a h o m a T o d a y

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