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October 30, 2024
Letters

Letter to the Editor The three living children of Checotah Girls Basketball Coach Herman Emerson wish to extend our sympathy to the family of Myrtle Wallace Frost who passed away Sept. 29. Our dad was fortunate to have Myrtle who was a star on his undefeated 1946 and 1947 Checotah Girls State Campion basketball team.

As the oldest sibling, I remember watching Myrtle and the other talented Checotah teammates win the Girls State Championships and undefeated season for the first time.

There was a huge string of cars lined up honking their horns as we were escorted victorious to Checotah.

After, Myrtle and Laura Pennington both were members of the All-American Redheads in Atlanta, Ga. The equipment manager would send our Dad used basketballs and other coveted equipment, which was like Christmas in the Fall in our house.

Thanks to Myrle and the many other Checotah girls basketball team players (6 players – 3 offense and 3 defense) our Dad coached nine successful seasons at Checotah before his death in1955.

His record of 239 – 23 earned him induction into the Oklahoma Girls Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1975. Thanks Myrtle, your work, skills, helping others and commitment to winning contributed immensely to our family as well as the community of Checotah during your high school and professional years.

Pat Emerson Miner (Tom), Checotah Class of 1950.

Charles Emerson (Judy), Muskogee Class of 1962.

Janice Emerson Ward (Joe), Muskogee Class of 1962.

Pat Miner, Eufaula To the Editor: If you were to get on I40 and drive backwards how far would you get without calling a tow truck? For the past three Republican administrations, the Democrats have had to get our country out of a deep ditch. But in MAGA world, backward is forward. And the drivers have unibrows and carry a bible in one hand and an assault rifle in the other.

Trump is the most vile, fascist this country’s ever seen. He claims he’s the “father of IVF,” but the fool thinks it stands for Incredibly Vivacious Females. Under Trump and MAGA, pregnancy tests have taken the place of drug tests. All in fitting their goal of a woman’s place is in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.

And these evangelical sycophants you see laying hands on Trump, they’re not God’s people. They’re Satan’s servants. By the way, the real meaning of MAGA is make ******** great again. (Hint: the first part rhymes with glass.)

Trump’s really going after the “alpha bros.” The ones who wake up thinking how many ways they can prove their manhood. If you’re constantly having to prove your manhood you don’t have any. The morning after Trump won in 2016, I was driving down a street in Muskogee when this redneck in a work truck suddenly got in my lane heading straight towards me. I didn’t budge and finally he did. Poor ol’ alpha bro just had to prove his manhood in celebrating a white supremacist president.

But what’s really funny is so-called adults who should’ve outgrown playing dress-up long ago trying to look just like der fuhrer. Apparently, the Halloween MAGA contest is only a red tie away.

Vote for Harris. Grandpa can’t drive.

Larry Parsons Warner

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