Commission encouraged over the possibility of more electric power here

-Sequoyah County Times; July 22, 1949

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times

25 Years Ago

(From the July 8,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

—The water level at Lake Tenkiller is dropping about six inches per day, Carton Bailey, park ranger with the U.S. Corps of Engineers, said. The drop is the result of evaporation and the release of water from Tenkiller Dam, he said.

Currently the dam is releasing about double what is released normally to produce electricity, he said.

The lake is sitting at a little more than 11 feet above flood stage, he said. Many of the boat ramps are still underwater, as well as many of the campsites, he said. Snake Creek, Chicken Creek, Cookson and Elk Creek campgrounds have taken it the hardest.

Water levels sat at more than 18 feet above flood stage on Memorial Day, Bailey said. Then had dropped to four or five feet, and employees had just started cleaning up around the area when the rains struck again. By the Fourth of July, levels were back up around 15 feet, he said.

50 Years Ago

(From the July 18,1974, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

—A Tulsa man is in serious condition at a Fort Smith hospital after the diesel truck which he was driving overturned at a sharp curve on Highway 17, eight miles north of Sallisaw, and crashed.

The mishap sent 6,500 gallons of fuel oil pouring out of the truck tank into a creek subsidiary which feeds Sallisaw’s water supply at Brushy Lake. The water is unharmed, though, due to the efforts of law enforcement officials and Sallisaw city employees.

The truck turned one and one-half times and landed in the creek The oil immediately began flowing westward down the creek subsidiary toward the lake.

75 Years Ago

(From the July 22,1949, issue of the

Sequoyah County Times)

—Monday a committee consisting of City Manager Fred Johnston, commissioner R.C. Williams, City Attorney Roy Frye, state senator Ray Fine and Paul Carlile conferred with officials of the Grand River Dam Authority in Vinita on extension of the power facilities of the dam to include Sallisaw.

During the summer months the heavy drain caused by the operation of many air-conditioning plants, has caused the city’s power plant to be operated at near capacity. Electric power can be bought much more cheaply from the GRDA than the city can produce it, if the city is able to obtain such power.

As a result of the meeting Monday with the GRDA board, Johnston said, the board has promised to send an engineer to Sallisaw next week to make a survey of the amount of current that would be expected to be used in Sallisaw

100 years ago

(From the July 18,1924, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Six representatives from Oklahoma State Highway association, an organization for better roads, will be guests of the Sallisaw Ad Club at a luncheon Monday at noon. There will be two invited guests from Gore, Muldrow, Vian, Marble City, Gans and Hanson, who will meet with the local organization.

The object of the organization is better roads for every part of the state. It is not boosting any one proposition, and it is for any organization that is trying to build good roads.

—One of the largest crowds to attend a Klan lecture heard Carrol Foster of Atlanta, Georgia, a nationally known lecturer Tuesday evening on the city hall lawn. The Klan side was put squarely before the people of this city and his address was one of the best ever delivered in the city.

The crowd swarmed the city hall lawn long before the speaker arrived.