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CLASSIFIEDS 8• SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 The Elk City News LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS ING DISTRICT YAR $ 95.00 TIONS INC INMATE COMMIS- unanimously passed. approve the A.C.C.O. dues the resolution for Declaration Finnell made a motion to ap- 000026 SAGEBRUSH INC SARY $ 3,855.68 No Transfer of Funds for FY26/27. Johnny Davis of Surplus for the Assessor’s prove. Johnny Davis seconded JANITORIAL SERVICE $ 40.00 Sheriff’s Funding Assistance Tate Finnell made a motion to seconded the motion, which office #H218-30 (HP Elite desk- the motion, which Campbell, 000027 CITY OF SAYRE 000001 CITY OF SAYRE WA- approve the County Officer’s Campbell, Finnell, and Davis top). Johnny Davis seconded Finnell, and Davis unanimously LANDFILL USE $ 651.24 TER BILL $ 914.47 Monthly Reports. Johnny Da- unanimously passed. the motion, which Campbell, passed. 000012 OKLAHOMA DEPART- 000002 US FOODSERVICE vis seconded the motion, which The Board reviewed and dis- Finnell, and Davis unanimously Unfinished Business – None MENT OF TRANS Contract INC JAIL FOOD $ 3,237.92 Campbell, Finnell and Davis cussed the purchase card passed. New business - None Charge $ 4,920.78 000003 SYSCO FOOD SER- unanimously passed. No Trea- statement and payments for Resolution #2027-3 - Tate Fin- Tate Finnell made a motion to Law Library VICE OF OKLAHOM JAIL surer’s Collection Summary charges in June 2026. Tate nell made a motion to approve adjourn. Johnny Davis second- 000001 LAW LIBRARY FOOD $ 3,900.81 Tate Finnell made a motion to Finnell made motion to ap- the resolution for Declaration of ed the motion, which Campbell, TRANSFER $ 3,448.32 000004 ECOLAB LEASE/ solicit fuel bids as needed this prove. Johnny Davis seconded Surplus for the County Clerk’s Finnell and Davis unanimously ML Fee EQUIPMENT $ 163.89 week. Johnny Davis seconded the motion, which Campbell, office #F-213-01 (Savin Copi- passed. 000001 KELLPRO INC COM- 000005 XEROX CORPORA- the motion, which Campbell, Finnell, and Davis unanimously er). Johnny Davis seconded /s/Carl Don Campbell, Chair- PUTER HARDWARE/ $ TION COPIER LEASE $ 80.65 Finnell and Davis unanimously passed. the motion, which Campbell, man; Tate Finnell, Member; 26,736.00 000006 XEROX CORPO- passed. Resolution #2027-1 - Tate Fin- Finnell, and Davis unanimously Johnny Davis, Member /s/ Resale RATION COPIER LEASE $ No Requisition and receiving nell made motion to approve passed. Attest: Julie Swaner, County 000001 AMAZON CAPITAL 195.81 officers list for this week was the resolution for Declaration of The Board reviewed and dis- Clerk SERVICES SUPPLIES $ Grand Total $256,015.73 turned in. Surplus for the Health Depart- cussed the Cooperative Ex- LPXLP 139.14 No Blanket purchase orders Tate Finnell made a motion to ment #SI-110-02 (Conference tension Agreement between RM&P Tate Finnell made a motion to approve the C.O.D.A. dues table and base). Johnny Davis the Oklahoma State University 000001 UNDERGROUND approve the Cash Fund Esti- for FY26/27. Johnny Davis seconded the motion, which acting for and on behalf of its VAULTS & STORAGE DOCU- mate of Needs and Requests seconded the motion, which Campbell, Finnell, and Davis Cooperative Extension Service MENT STORAGE $ 1,240.20 for Appropriations. Johnny Da- Campbell, Finnell, and Davis unanimously passed. and the United States Depart- SH Commissary vis seconded the motion, which unanimously passed Resolution #2027-2 - Tate Fin- ment of Agriculture and Beck- 000002 PRODIGY SOLU- Campbell, Finnell, and Davis Tate Finnell made a motion to nell made a motion to approve ham County for FY26/27. Tate NEWS Civil Defense carbohydrate supplement from Elk City federal fallout shelter. The carbohydrate supplement was one of four foods provided by the Cold-War Civil-Defense display at the Old Town Museum featuring survival Elk City Civil Defense water barrels in storage. Address label on Elk City Civil Defense water barrel. Office of Civil Defense for federal fallout shelters. supplies from Elk City’s federal fallout shelters. When Elk City Prepared to Survive the Unthinkable By Landry Brewer Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey radius of a Soviet nuclear bomb’s Gromyko threatened U.S. Ambas- explosion would die, the hope was Long before Y2K, a crisis be- sador Llewelyn Thompson, saying, that people beyond it could survive gan 65 years ago this summer in “You know, you’ve got to recognize the lingering atmospheric radio- Austria that resulted in a German that if you allow Berlin to become active fallout by living in at-home wall and made Elk Citians stockpile the flash point for a war, we will fallout shelters or public fallout food, water, and medicine to live incinerate New York City in 24 shelters for two weeks until the air through a nuclear war. hours.” outside was safe again. President Kennedy met with Thompson replied that Soviet With the nuclear-weapons-as- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bombs would, no doubt, inflict sembly Pantex Plant in Amarillo in Vienna, Austria, in June 1961 to damage on some American cities, to the west, nuclear-armed B-52 discuss the increasingly tense situ- “but you also know that the entire Bombers housed at Clinton-Sher- ation in the German city of Berlin. Soviet Union will become a rub- man Air Force Base in Burns Flat, Since the end of World War II in ble heap within 24 hours. It’s your and 12 Atlas F intercontinental 1945, Berlin had been divided, with choice of time frame; it will take a ballistic missile sites near Altus Air the Soviets controlling the city’s lot less than that.” Force Base to the south, Elk City east side and an American presence This crisis triggered a nucle- was uncomfortably close to pre- in the west. ar-war scare in the United States, sumed Soviet bombing targets. The entire country of Germa- including western Oklahoma. Federal fallout-shelter signs with ny was divided into eastern and The continued mass exodus three yellow triangles in a black cir- western occupation zones at war’s from East Germany also triggered cle were placed on buildings that end, and Berlin was in the Sovi- building the Berlin Wall, dividing met the federal government’s crite- et-controlled eastern zone, which, that city and stopping free passage ria. This let the public know where by summer 1961, had become the from its east to its west, on August to seek shelter while away from communist country East Germany. 13, 1961. home during an attack, and where More than 300,000 East Ger- The same month, the Kennedy they could live for two weeks while, mans a year were fleeing East Ger- administration asked Congress hopefully, the atmosphere became many and communism by crossing for money to stock public spaces livable. Elk City Civil Defense sanitation kit in storage. from Soviet-controlled East Berlin around the nation with two-weeks’ Elk City’s public federal fallout into free West Berlin. Khrushchev worth of food and sanitation and shelters included the basements of Shelters here were also stocked into storage at the Elk City Munic- tion-ending nuclear weapons and was desperate to stop the mass ex- medical supplies as fallout shelters the First Baptist Church building, with two weeks’ worth of four ipal Airport. drove Americans, including Elk odus. for Americans to live in and hope- the Casa Grande Hotel, Commu- foods provided by the Office of In November 2020, the storage Citians, to stockpile supplies and At Vienna, he issued a six-month fully wait out the danger posed by nity Hospital, and the building Civil Defense—survival biscuits, was emptied. Some of the remain- prepare to survive what may have deadline to Kennedy for the Amer- atmospheric radiation after nucle- just south of the Post Office that survival crackers, carbohydrate ing Cold War-era civil-defense been unsurvivable. icans to leave Berlin, or the Soviet ar-bomb blasts. housed both the Elk City Police supplements, and bulgur wafers. artifacts were donated to the Okla- Landry Brewer is Bernhardt As- Union would sign a treaty with Secretary of Defense Robert Mc- Department and the Elk City Fire They were packaged separately in homa Historical Society, and some sistant Professor for Southwestern East Germany, ending occupation Namara told Congress that, while Department. sealed cans with an estimated shelf were donated to Elk City’s Old Oklahoma State University and rights and granting the commu- “perhaps several tens of millions” They were provided with radi- life of between 5 and 15 years. Town Museum, where they are on teaches History and Political Sci- nist country and Soviet client state of Americans could die in a nuclear ation-detection equipment, water They stayed in local fallout shel- display. ence classes at SWOSU’s Sayre lo- complete control of the city. attack, the administration hoped to barrels to be filled locally, sanita- ters much longer. Those artifacts evoke memo- cation. Brewer is also the author of Khrushchev warned that Amer- save 50 million Americans, about a tion supplies, and medicines like After the Cold War ended in ries of crisis and fear 65 years ago “Cold War Oklahoma,” “Cold War icans could either leave or risk nu- fourth of the nation’s population, in aspirin, Eugenol, penicillin, and 1991, the remaining civil-defense when two superpowers threatened Kansas,” and “Cold War Texas.” clear war with the Soviet Union. public fallout shelters. phenobarbital, plus bandages, supplies from 30 years earlier went each other with possibly civiliza- During this Berlin Crisis of 1961, While people within the blast gauze, and forceps. Farm Credit Associations of Oklahoma Named 2026 OCA Industry Partner of the Year [Oklahoma City, Okla – July Year Award recognizes a business events and programs. 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