Jury Aquits Maddox in Slaying of Brother
The Daily Ardmoreite
Thursday, May 15, 1975
By Kay Evers
After hearing almost two full days of sometimes conflicting, sometimes confusing testimony, a jury deliberated just under 2 hours Wednesday evening before deciding that Charlie L. Maddox, 70, was not guilty of the February 11th shooting death of his brother, Joe E. Maddox, Sr, a former Carter County Court Clerk.
Although Maddox took the stand and admitting shooting Joe with a .38 caliber weapon which he had specially cleaned and loaded just prior to the shooting his brother. His defense throughout the trial was that Joe had threatened his life, perhaps hundreds of times, in the past few years and he was finally goaded into killing him in self-defense.
In my newsletter last Thursday I had links to Leroy McDanial’s photos he took in the 60s. The picture links did not work, so I am posting them again. Below are links to the photos Leroy McDaniel took when he was a teenage apprentice working for a local photographer. The pics are of South Washington Street about where Ernie’s Meat Market is now was of the old cotton compress. It was all under one roof. It burned and they tore it down in the early 60s.
Photo GinFire1 – Photo GinFire2 – Photo GinFire3
Photo GinFire4 – Photo GinFire5 – Photo GinFire6
Below is the original Super Dog which was sold by Joe Ben Ponder to Stan Baldwin, later owner of Baldwin’s on South Washington.
Below is a photo after it was remodeled but before it was torn down to build a Dollar General store on the site.
A grave marker I made this week.
Mail from the Mailbag
Made a pilgrimage of sorts this morning to this sacred place. This is “The Healing Rock” AKA “Teepee Rock” situated on the North shore of Skiatook Lake. It is sacred to the Indigenous people of this area, and believed to have healing power. My experience was one of peace, quietness, and comfort. There was ample sunshine, no wind at all, and three deer wandered past while I was there. I paused for a time to offer thanks for Sharon, Georgia Lynn, and Cecilia… and the love we shared openly and unconditionally. It was time well spent… I shall venture back again… sometime. -Robert Gates
I see a new business opened up in Lone Grove recently. It’s call the Kingz Of Cardz.
15362 US Hwy 70
Kingzofcardz@gmail.com
Up-to-date listing of unclaimed insurance at State Treasurers Office in OKC I been posting on my Facebook.
https://oklahomahistory.net/unclaimed-property-in-oklahoma/
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
I’m making progess. I have my Raspberry Pi-3 working and using DruidStar to operate on DMR with a DMR ID of 3213045. And thanks to my HAM friend, Roger in West Virginia, I have my Allstar up and running on my laptop usng an App called iaxRpt. My Allstar node number is 58735. I have one more program called Supermon2 version 6.2.2 to install on my laptop that compliments Allstar. There are over 23,000 nodes/stations worldwide I will be able to talk to. Below is a map of Allstar nodes just in the United States.
If you are Southern Oklahoma HAM we welcome you to join in on the 97 Net Sunday nights at 8:00pm CST.
Below is from my newsletter archives dated
January 24, 2008 – Issue 573
The Wilson News -submitted by Mindy Taylor
9-23-1915
School Notes
Our school was recommended for a three year accredited high school by state high school inspector, Mr. A. C. Parson who in company with Supt. Thurston paid us an official visit. Pupils under six years of age must pay $1.00 tuition per month in advance. This is the order of the school board. This money goes to the district. Debating clubs have been organized in four of the higher rooms and a very satisfactory showing was made last Friday. Athletics are also fully alive. The school has two teams each of boys and girls basket ball, three teams of volley ball and a tennis club. Chapel exercises every morning in charge of the teachers. Three preachers have held chapel for us.
10-7-1915
We believe Wilson has the best set of pupils in the county. There is less fighting and swearing and less cases of truancy than in any school its size we know of. A big electric bell has been installed in the hall downstairs and when Mr. Rogers tried it Tuesday evening many of the pupils thought it was the fire alarm and hustled out in a hurry. Parents please do not allow your children to go to the school house before 8:30 in the morning. Many of the children are on the campus before 8:00. We have asked them not to come so early and if they persist, we shall be forced to send them back home as 9:00 is the hour for books. The Wilson Museum has several shelves of Wilson School Annuals. Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
https://www.wilsonhistoricalmuseum.org/
“Butch, I e-mailed you before but wanted to ask anyone on your newsletter if they may have known of a John Pardue of Atoka back in the late 50’s or so. He was my grandfather and he worked in the Stringtown Rock Quarry and lived in Atoka. He was married to my Step-Grandmother then (my own Grandmother died in a car wreck when she was 48) and she worked as a waitress in a cafe in Atoka. Her name was Stella Pardue. I have lost contact with my relatives and it would be nice to find out if anyone knew of them back then. I lived in Ardmore in 1955, moving from Atoka to Tishomingo to Ardmore in 1955. I was born in Milburn Okla. in 1940. We moved to Atoka when I was two. My Grandfather lived in Atoka till he died in the early 70’s. I know my Uncle John Jr. who lived in Denison TX. died when young and he had a wife named Sue and a son named John Austin Pardue. I don’t know where my cousin is now. Haven’t see or heard from him since he was a young kid in the late 50’s. Anyone who lived in Atoka in the 50’s or early 60’s may have known my Grandfather John Pardue. Any help would be great.”
-Bobbie Wilson Diiorio, Houston, TX
“Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy day.” –Lawrence Welk
See everyone next week!
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore Oklahoma
580-490-6823
https://oklahomahistory.net