Volume 8 , Issue 7

Weather Dog Report & More...

by - Sadie Sadie, intern weather pugster

Shhhhhh...... Do NOT tell Duchess! We have been thinking about getting her an "Honorary Phd" (Pugster of History Doctorate) from the OkieLegacy University (OU) for all the hard work she has been coping with from the NW Okie & this Sadie Sadie (intern Weather Pugster). Another Shhhhhhhh... Do NOT tell that NW Okie. We hear that she (NW Okie) will be reaching the magic number of "58" next Saturday, February 25th. Don't tell her this Sadie Pugster told you!

As to Gas Prices & Weather... We understand that Oklahoma's gas prices are quite a bit lower than ours in SW Colorado. Roy in Perry, OK says, "Perry's gasoline prices have continued to bounce up and down. Tuesday they dropped to a low of $2.02.9 and then Wednesday they bounced back up to $2.06.9 which is where they were last time I checked today (Friday, Feb. 17th.). We finally have some cooler weather (33 degrees when I checked around noon today) and they said there might be some snow flurries in the next day or so, but I doubt it. We still need moisture and will take any kind that's possible."

SW Colorado's gas prices have been hanging around $2.32 to $2.35 for the last few weeks around Bayfield & Durango, Colorado area.

As for the Weather... Early in the week from Maine to North Carolina a Winter watch dumped over two feet of snow in some places for those New Englanders. If you live in those areas and have some spare snow, please send us some Winter snow ... snapshots, of course. We haven't seen that much snow since... Well! Can't remember how long! We need moisture, also.

SW Colorado's weather burst in Wednesday as blustery, windy day that began the movement of Winter back on the scene around here. By Friday morning, we wokeup to a cold, cloudy day, but by mid-day the snow started to fall in tiny, miniscule flakes that you needed a microscope to see. By 5:34p.m. MST, Friday the flakes were bigger and sticking to the ground. Saturday morning we had sun again with scant snow down in the valley. Sounds like Oklahoma will get some of this Saturday. Boy howdy!... Did Texas's 80 degree temps fall Thursday night into the 40s on Friday. There will be some head colds out of this. BUT... that sounds like heartland weather to this intern weather Pugster.

NWOSU's Oklahoma Hall Update... We hear that NWOSU's Oklahoma Hall became just another pile of rubble towards the end of this week as the demolition crew finished the smashing job on this women's dormitory. Yep! the old NWOSU women's dormitory, is officially now a pile of rubble. The last standing portion of it was knocked down Friday, 2/17/2006. All that remains now is to remove the debris and see what happens next at that location. Some are hopeful that they will still have access to the parking lot there at least for the remainder of the current semester, though there is no assurance of that. The last word others have heard, as late as Friday morning, is that it will become a "green space" until such time as a decision can be made concerning the use of the location.

Back Bar Nude Scenes... Does anyone know or have any information of any "Back Bars Nude Scenes" that artist, John Noble, painted in Oklahoma and maybe into Kansas? We understand that Noble was famous for painting these "nude scenes" in the bars. One of the Balmer Fund board members is researching this artist. If you know anything about this artist and his back bar nude scenes, please contact: Rosalea Hostetler - EMAIL: wepreserve@balmerfund.org.

Alva, OK - Downtown, 504 Flynn & 430 Flynn... We received an email from an owner of a couple of buildings in downtown Alva, Oklahoma. The buildings are located at 430 Flynn, (formerly Old Surety Life) and 504 Flynn avenue. Is 504 Flynn Ave. that old cigar store that once resided on the NW corner of 5th & Flynn Ave.? Was 506 Flynn Avenue, in Alva, Oklahoma, a grocery store. Guess we need to look back through our thousand of web pages at the OkieLegacy to refresh our memory, huh? If some of this information jogs a few old memory cells out there, jot them down in an email, letter or story with a snapshot or jpg file -- send it our way so we can share some of those memories with our OkieLegacy readers -- AND... you can have your own "by-line" in the OkieLegacy Ezine.

Northwestern (NSTC) Army Air Cadets... In 1944, Tom McCarrick was in Alva with the 92nd training detachment of the Army Air Corp (cadet training) and going to Northwestern (NSTC). He sent us awhile back some photos of the air cadet training corp. Here is a link to Tom McCarrick's story about 1944 and NSTC as seen in one of our the past issues Vol. III, Iss. 32. How long did the army air cadets training continue at Northwestern (NSTC)? Was it into the mid-1950s?

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