Rachel Whitney
Curator, Sapulpa Historical Museum
Thursday, December 7, 1933, Sapulpa Herald: Sales Day Quality Quantity Growing…Traffic Skirts Blazing Gasoline Truck…Pretty Water Project Waits Location Purchase
“‘Sales Day yesterday far exceeded our expectations,’ Huber Hughes, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce stated this morning. Hundreds of enthusiastic farmers left the market place yesterday satisfied…Hughes estimated that there were over 1,000 people at the event, the biggest attendance to date. The project will continue with the new year…Traffic three miles east of Mannford on highway number one was rerouted around a burning gasoline transport truck that caught fire early this morning. A motorist from Mannford here said the flames spread across the highway and residents assisted in routing traffic over a detour. The truck, a huge transport affair, was loaded with gas. The origin of the fire was not determined…The Pretty Water resort and water supply project was the prominent feature of the municipal program before city authorities today. Plans for the raising of the $600 necessary for the purchase of this site near Sapulpa were going forward today…The government proposes to spend $10,000 on this site and practically all of this expenditure would be put in circulation in Sapulpa and this immediate vicinity…”
Wednesday, December 7, 1955, Sapulpa Daily Herald: Family ‘C’ Adopted; Triplets in Today’s
“Family C, listed in yesterday’s Herald, has been adopted by the Order of Amaranth, and the number of needy families not yet cared for in the Sapulpa area has been reduced to 337. Today’s needy family-Family D- presents a special problem. The family consists of a woman with four small girls-three of the children are six-year-old triplets. Major Henry Van Dee of the Salvation Army describes the family in this manner: ‘This mother needs milk and food for her four little girls. The father is being sought by county officials on a child abandonment charge. This lady is having a hard time this Christmas. Someone adopting this family will receive a blessing in helping them and will do this family so much good.’…Meanwhile, the downtown Salvation Army kettles paid for five more baskets, making 25 of the 362 families taken care of. There are only 15 more collecting days to take care of the other 342 families.”
Sunday, December 7, 1980, Sapulpa Daily Herald: Bristow Speech Contest Winners are Announced
“Laura Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Baker, will represent the Bristow Veterans of Foreign Wars in the district level of the 34th annual Voice of Democracy scriptwriting contest to be held in Bristow December 13. Laura, a sophomore at the Bristow Seventh Day Adventist School, was recently awarded $50 first prize for winning the local contest in competition with seven other high school students…ten other area VFW posts including Tulsa, Sapulpa, Drumright, Claremore, Mannford, Glenpool, and Sand Springs. Patricia James of Bristow High School won the second place prize of $25, and Delva Trout, a BHS junior received $15 for her third place…”
Friday, December 7, 2007, Sapulpa Daily Herald: Out of This World
“What once seemed futuristic and highly unlikely has now come to life. One Sapulpa High School group will soon partake in the designing, programming, and building of a robot in their rookie year participating in the FIRST Robotics program…The acronym FIRST means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science Technology. The FIRST Robotics program is backed by NASA, which gives grants each year to rookie schools. This year Bernie Henze, third-year teacher of Sapulpa High School was given the go-ahead by administration to apply for the NASA grant and get a group of students together as a team…Henze was informed that Sapulpa High School was approved for the NASA grant of $6,000, which will pay for the cost of registration and the cost of the kit, which will be picked up at OSU on Jan. 5, 2008…They will travel to Stillwater where each of the 36 Oklahoma schools will be represented as a region…”
