NEWSLETTER OF THE THREE FORKS TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB VOLUME XIX ISSUE 3 MAY 2002 EDITOR: Chuck Marcum PHONE: (918) 495-0867 EMAIL: graytcote@cox.net The Outpost is published monthly by the Three Forks Treasure Hunters Club. The club is a member of the Federation of Metal Detector and Archeological Clubs Inc. It is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of metal detecting as a hobby. No brand or model of metal detector is endorsed by the club. Membership is open to the public with the only requirement being that all members follow the Treasure Hunters Code of Ethics. Club dues are $25.00 per family yearly. Any comments or stories that you would like to contribute to your newsletter are always welcome. MEETINGS: First Tuesday of each month. TIME : 7:15 P.M PLACE: Wagoner Community Building at the corner of Jefferson and Cherokee streets in Wagoner Oklahoma. NEXT MEETING: May 7, 2002 BOARD MEETING: The 3rd Thursday of every month at Martin s Restaurant on Hwy. 16 in Okay Ok. at 7:00 P.M. 2002 CLUB OFFICERS: PRESIDENT: Nancy Coffey VICE PRESIDENT: Kevin Kastler SECRETARY: Tony Morris TREASURER: Carol Cooper BOARD MEMBERS: Jack Cooper Francis Tracy Gene Coffey Paul Mattes Ray Yerby Tina Yerby Mary Tracy Chuck Marcum Red Cawvey Vicki Lang Eddie Tamplin
The Secretary s Report General Meeting - April 2nd, 2002 of the Three Forks Treasure Hunters Club The meeting began with a discussion about the National Hunt. President Nancy Coffey announced that there will be 13 detectors in the main hunt. Also that we have 210 entries so far. Lee Linke said we need help setting up fields at 9:00am on Saturday. And to please bring prizes to donate for the main hunt. Also that they will need volunteers to help with the kids hunt. There were four visitors at the meeting. Brent Edmond had three of them with him, they were Mike Ledbetter, Chris Moreau and Leonard. Another visitor was Carl Van Hooser. Welcome to you all. Jack Cooper took the minutes In the absence of the Secretary And Carol Cooper gave the Treasurers Report with 9,200.00 in the National Hunt, 700.00 in the general fund and 62 in the prize donations. Next we had the prize donations with the 50/50 pot going to Gary Harper. And then the Finds of the Month was given. After the break Pres. Nancy said to be thinking about places for outings later on this spring and summer. Next was the silver drawing, display, donation, and attendance drawings. Last, Pres. Nancy told us that 44 families or people had paid there dues for the year. And asked everyone to remember to bring donations for the night and kids hunts and the cache. Closed Minutes took by Jack Cooper for the Secretary. In this issue. I have included a lot of National Hunt info. I have tried to recognize everyone that has helped support our Hunt by either running a Hunt, burying, organizing, selling, or donating prizes. All of these are equally important and has to be done to have a successful Hunt. I remembered 32 club members which I mentioned. That is more than half of our membership. A really good turnout, but as Lee has been mentioning we need some newer members learning some of these jobs also. Don t hesitate to jump in there and participate, you ll have a lot of help and a lot of fun. Lee Linke wrote a message to everyone which I have inserted. Lee has been our Hunt Chairman for 4 years now. He has been loosing his help and if he can t find people to take their place, I doubt that he ll be doing it again. I d like to thank Tina Yerby again for taking pictures for me. She took 140 real good pictures of which I put as many as I could into this newsletter. I will be giving her and Lee a CD with all of them on it. I will also donate one to the prize donations at the next meeting. Our State Legislature has upheld the law that Raffles are illegal. So we will not have a Monthly Raffle but I can t see anything wrong with sharing prize donations. The prize donations were a little slim last month probably because of all of the Hunt Donations we had to come up with. Don t forget to bring some prize donations to share this meeting. When you see Rochelle while you are giving her your donations be sure and congratulate her on her upcoming graduation and thank her for the job she is doing for our club. I will be sending out our newest Three Forks Email list soon, just as I have promised. If I don t have your address or if it has changed please let me know. Email is the fastest and most efficient way to communicate with club members when a last minute outing, event, or a special announcement comes up. I ll bet Chris had a good day after winning these 2 detectors!
APRIL PRIZE DONATIONS Donation Shared By Shared To Silver Round Disposable Cooler 1964-D Half Dollar Half Dollar Antique Trader Magazines Tap Lights & Magnifier Fools Gold Antique Trader Magazines 6 Raffle Tickets Fisher T-Shirt $5.00 Raffle Tickets Silver Dollar Silver Round Kevin & Julie Kastler Paul Mattes Jerry Harlin Nancy Coffey Richard Carr Gary Young Mark Burnett Richard Carr Lee Wierzchowski Tex Dixon Red Cawvey Three Forks Three Forks Tom Neville Gary Young Denise Lang Anthony Martin Terry Burnett Mark Burnett Vicki Lang Kevin Kastler Tom Neville Nancy Coffey Tex Dixon Gary Harper Lee Wierzchowski The 50/50 Pot was shared to Gary Harper. The Donation Donation was shared to Jerry Harlin. The Display Donation was shared to Joe Poplin. The Attendance Donation was shared to Gary Young. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY REMEMBER MAY 12th
Everyone needs to pat themselves on their back again for putting on another very successful National Hunt. I will attempt to give recognition to everybody who supported our Hunt. If I leave anybody out please let me know and I will mention them twice next month. THREE FORKS TREASURE HUNTERS CLUB SIXTEENTH NATIONAL OPEN TREASURE HUNT!!! Review, Stats, and Special Recognition Main Hunt 196 Entries Half Hunt-141 Entries Ladies Hunt-40 Entries Toddler s Hunt-1 Entry STATS Deep Competition 25 Entries Gold Hunt-132 Entries Kid s Hunt-39 Entries Here is a very special THANKS to: Lee Linke Hunt Chairman - Prize Board Preparing, Organizing, and running the Main Hunt Chris Linke Stringing Fields - Driving the Cart and giving his Dad much needed help Vicki Lang Running the Toddler s Hunt Marge W. Helping Vicki with the Toddler s Hunt Francis Tracy Doing the Gold Hunt and buying Main Hunt Prizes Eddie Tamplin Helping Francis buy the Main Hunt Prizes Gene Coffey Running the Half Dollar Hunt Tony Morris Helping Gene with the Half Dollar Hunt Gary Young Doing the Kid s Hunt Chuck Marcum Running the Deep and Night Hunt Kevin Kastler Putting on the Ladies Hunt, Helping me bury the Night Hunt, and the Silver Raffle Julie Kastler Doing the Silver Raffle, Helping me bury the Night Hunt, burying a lot for the Main Tina Yerby Taking a lot of good pictures Jerry Callison Stringing, Helping me bury the Deep and Doing the Huntley Cache Carol Cooper Registration and all of the Financial Jack Cooper Registration, burying the Main Hunt Nancy Coffey Being President, Selling Raffle Tickets, and helping with registration & Finances Jason Stamps Selling Raffle Tickets & burying the Kid s Hunt Mike Plunkett Burying the Main Hunt Cody Plunkett Burying the Main Hunt Plunkett Family Running the Concession Stand Ray Yerby Burying various Hunts and making new tools for the Deep Hunt Jerry Harlin Helping with the Prize Table, assembling Detectors Red Cawvey Selling so many Raffle Tickets Wally Dick Helping me with the Deep Hunt Jean Dick Helping me with the Deep Hunt Dorris B. Helping me with the Deep Hunt Glenn Briley Burying various Hunts Randy Smith For his generous Detector Donation Terry Humphries For his generous Detector Donation Tom Hale Gold Ring and Coins For the Night Hunt Ken Dotson Donations for the Night Hunt Anybody Else That I may of left out Silver Round Raffles made $299.00 for our Club. Winners Deep Competition Hunt 1st and 2nd was a tie-francis Tracy of Wagoner, Ok. & Les Taylor of Brookfield, Mo. 3rd-Tom Hale of Indianapolis, In. 4th-Monroe Tipton of Catoosa, Ok. Detector & Gold Coin Drawings $ 5.00 Gold Coin-Howard Dickerson of Derby, Ks. $10.00 Gold Coin-James Wurth of Florissant, Mo. Whites XLT-Bethany, Ok. Main Hunt Detector Prizes Garret GTA 550-Bill Kruse of Cabet, Ak. Fisher 1236-X-2-Julie Kastler of Broken Arrow, Ok. Fisher 1266-X-David Bonecelli of Shawnee, Ok. Fisher CZ-5-Randy Wier of Clearwater, Ks. Fisher 1280-X-Joe Allen of Mulvane, Ks. Fisher 1236-X-2-Silver Bryant of Wichita, Ks. Fisher 1266-X-Ed Mestas of OKC, Ok. Whites Classic ID-James Breth of Wichita, Ks. Whites XLT & Classic IDX Pro-Chris Potts of Yukon, Ok. Whites 5900 DI Pro-Don t know just Texas!! Whites Surf Master 2-Kenneth Prock of McAlester, Ok. Tesoro Conquistador Max-Dewayne Dyer of Wetumka, Ok. Fisher 1236-X-2-Mike Skinner of Mesquite, Tx. Fisher 1236-X-2 Mary Tracy-Wagoner won in Ladies Hunt
A MESSAGE FROM HUNT CHAIRPERSON LEE LINKE National Hunt April 7th, 2002 was different then any past year I've encountered as hunt chairman. Dry weather is by far better, but it could have been alot worst. On the whole I'd have to say the hunt was another success. Like the weather there's always different problems that come up and all we can do is deal with it, back up and punt. Despite the weather entry numbers came close,to the numbers of years past. Again, this year I'd like to personally Thank all that helped!! Your help made the success! Special thanks to the die hard volunteers that stayed to the end and helped clean up mess left behind. I was glad to see a few new face's out there along with those that are always there helping. One of those new face's belonged to Gary Young who ran the Kids Hunt, If you weren't there it looked like Gary had robbed a toy store. Carol and Jack Cooper,which aren't new faces, gave Nancy a much deserved break on badges and registration. Mike Plunkett "incorporated" furnished our concessions on Sunday again, which he uses to pay for Missionary trips. Thank you all that volunteered to run or help with hunts. Audra Tamplin was under the weather this year, which Eddie tells me she's feeling better. There was quite a group that took turns on selling tickets for silver rounds, gold coins and the Whites Spectrum XLT donated by Treasure Electronics, Randy Smith, which is the only place that Three Forks makes anything off The National Hunt. Speaking of donations Terry Humphries TME donated another Fisher 1236 X-2 plus setting up on Sunday. These two dealers help a great deal with our hunt. I'd like to thank all that made donations, some didn't get to come or even belong to our club! THANK YOU!! Which bring me to my yearly soap box speech. Each year around the time of our hunt my thoughts go back to Bill Huntley. Few people realize the dedication Bill gave to Three Forks and The National Hunt! Bill ran our hunts with the help of his wife Della Ruth for years,we just enjoyed the hunts. Unfortunately I don't have the time to do like wise. Kenneth is getting ready to move to Colorado, and I most likely will lose my trusty side kick Christopher next year. I made a couple mistakes this year that I like not to happen again. What we need is someone to take over the prize boards, prizes and take care of donations Saturday and Sunday so hopefully these problems are kept to a minimal. Three Forks has allot of great people who dedicate time to the club, and our hobby. But more members need to get involved, even if you don't hunt in the national hunt but enjoy club outings, winning find of the month, silver raffles, prizes, or club hunts, that means YOU. These things are in part funded by what YOUR CLUB clears on the drawings at the National Hunt. If the National Hunt does not continue then theses things may not either! Three Forks members please step up and help our club continue! Again thank you all that helped!! Lee
APRIL S FIND OF THE MONTH WINNERS PROS Oldest Coin 1. 1816 Large Cent Tom Nedville 2. 1875 Seated Half Dollar Anthony Martin 1881 Indian Head Cent Gary Martin Jewelry 1. 14k Gold Ring Terry Archer 2. Bracelet Jim Simmons Silver Indian Jewelry Terry Burnett Val. Coin Silver & Gold 1. 1876-s Seated Dime Julie Kastler 2. 1919 Mercury Dime Terry Archer 1939 Mercury Dime Jim Simmons Valuable Coin - Other 1. 1922-D Wheat Cent Terry Archer 2. 1915 Buffalo Nickel Gary Martin 1895 Indian Head Cent Julie Kastler Relic 1. Mickey Mouse Ring Terry Archer 2. Ft. Smith Watch Fob Anthony Martin 2. Flour Watch Fob Tex Dixon Brass Arrowhead Terry Burnett Military Relic 1. Great Coat Button Chuck Marcum 2. Spur Gary Martin Indian Wars Button Julie Kastler Dragoon Button Terry Burnett Non - Metallic 1. Arrowhead Gary Martin 2. Arrowhead Chuck Marcum Pepsi Bottle Tex Dixon AMATEURS Oldest Coin 1. 1900 Indian Cent Gary Young 2. 1919 Wheat Cent Lee Wierzchowski Jewelry 1. Silver & Ruby Ring Lee Wierzchowski 2. Gold Plated Ring Gary Harper Val. Coin Silver & Gold 1. 1946 Roosevelt Dime Vicki Lang 2. Valuable Coin - Other 1. 1924 Buffalo Nickel Lee Wierzchowski 2. 1910 What Cent Gary Harper Relic 1. Fork Gene Coffey 2. Military Relic 1. Round Ball Gary Harper 2. Non - Metallic 1. Salt Shaker Richard Carr 2. Rock Crystal Gary Harper Porcelain Door Knob Lee Wierzchowski Golden Eagle Award Terry Archer found this highly collectable Mickey Mouse Ring.
SENIOR 2002 Rochelle Starr will be graduating Wagoner High School on Friday May 17th and the club is invited to attend. The ceremony will be held at the Wagoner High Football Field. She has promised to bring cards to the meeting giving more details. Congratulations Rochelle!! We know that you will be successful at any endeavor you undertake in the future. New South Central Chapter State of Oklahoma FMDAC Representative I have accepted this position from James. I m looking forward to meeting with every member of every club in this State. Let me know of any ideas, comments, or suggestions and I will pass them on. I will try to answer any questions you may ask. If I can t answer them I will get you the answers. I ll always have the latest news on National and Local FMDAC happenings to pass on. I will be the middle man between the South Central Chapter and every Oklahoma Club. Monthly Cookie List Tony Morris has volunteered to bring cookies to the May Meeting. We don t have anybody signed up for June or July. Nobody volunteered for April and everybody missed them at break time. I will try to remember to bring the list to the meeting so that we can fill those two months.