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    WEDNESDAY
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    SERVING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SINCE 1905
    Air Fares ........... E2
    Ask Amy ......... D6
    Bridge............... D6
    Business ............ E1
    Comics ......... D6,7
    Crosswords .... D6
    Editorial ..........A14
    Horoscope .....C10
    Movies ............. D2
    Obituaries ......A12
    Sports TV ........ B2
    Stocks ............... E5
    Inside todays Tulsa World Follow the World online
    Breaking news at tulsaworld.com
    facebook.com/tulsaworld
    twitter.com/tulsaworld
    Today High 35, Low 24
    Sunny, cold. More weather on B8
    Get more weather coverage and check out
    our weather blog at tulsaworld.com/weather
    Business: Small rms
    embracing the rush. E1
    Scene: Tips to tame
    turkey troubles. D1
    Get a jump start on
    Black Friday sales
    Black Friday sales are almost here, and the
    Tulsa World will have an early edition to help
    you make plans for the big shopping days.
    An early edition of the Thanksgiving Day
    newspaper will be available at most retail
    outlets by late Wednesday afternoon, and
    all stores will have their Thanksgiving Day
    newspapers with all Black Friday inserts by 8
    p.m. Wednesday.
    Buy your copy the night before Thanks-
    giving and make your shopping plan for the
    best deals, said Bill Masterson Jr., president
    and publisher of Tulsa World Media Co.
    The Thanksgiving Day Tulsa World will
    include 57 advertising inserts in addition to
    the local ads throughout the paper.
    For a list of store hours for Black Friday sales,
    see page E2.
    TOBACCO: SETTLEMENT SHOWING RESULTS
    Creating a smokeless habit
    BY GINNIE GRAHAM
    World Staf Writer
    Oklahomas decision to ac-
    cept a settlement with big to-
    bacco 15 years ago has led to
    big bucks.
    More than $1 billion so far.
    Earnings from the endow-
    ment that was started with
    those payments will continue
    as long as tobacco is in use and
    most likely long after.
    This year at least $35 million
    will be spent among 67 pro-
    grams in nearly every county to
    prevent and end tobacco use,
    promote health and wellness
    and continue research.
    Grants will help pay for a
    smoking cessation helpline,
    sidewalks in Collinsville, a
    physical health lab at Jenks
    schools and materials for the
    annual Great American Smoke-
    out cessation campaign.
    Oklahoma is the only state
    with a constitutionally protect-
    ed trust for tobacco settlement
    funds.
    Former Oklahoma Attorney
    General Drew Edmondson was
    one of eight state attorneys
    general charged with negotiat-
    ing the then-largest settlement
    in the nations history.
    When the state attorneys
    general band together in a par-
    ticular cause, it can be very ef-
    fective in stopping improper
    While work still needs to be done, numbers improve
    Corey Love (right), with the Tulsa Health Department, hands out an information packet on the Great American Smokeout last week to
    parent Tony Cantu as he picks up his children at ECDC Bunche. Oklahoma is marking the 15th anniversary of the tobacco settlement, which
    funds smoking cessation and wellness programs. Photos by JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
    Tobacco
    control
    programs
    49.9%
    Research
    21.9%
    Nutrition and
    wellness
    18%
    Conference
    sponsorships .1%
    Unsolicited 1.9%
    Disaster funding 2.5% Incentive grants 2.6%
    Administration 3.2%
    Where the money goes
    How proceeds from the tobacco trust
    fund will be spent in 2014settlement
    (Figures have been rounded)
    Source: Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
    DAVID HOUSH/Tulsa World
    Students gather around Deedra Bryant, who is with the Tulsa
    Health Department, dressed as a cigarette to promote the
    Great American Smoke Out outside ECDC Bunche school in
    Tulsa on Nov. 19.
    SEE HABIT A4
    Oklahoma tobacco facts
    Ranked 39th last year in
    tobacco use, up from 47th in
    2011.
    23 percent of Oklahomans are
    lighting up, compared to 19 per-
    cent of adults nationally.
    28.7 percent of Oklahomans
    smoked in 2001, reducing the
    number of smokers by more
    than 100,000.
    About $1.16 billion in medi-
    cal costs are associated with
    smoking.
    More than 250,000 people
    have been served since 2003
    through the states cessation
    Helpline, which provides items
    and support to quit tobacco
    use.
    A record 38,732 people con-
    tacted the Helpline last year.
    6,085 Tulsa County residents
    were served through Helpline
    last year.
    More than 40 percent of
    Helpline callers have no health
    insurance, and more than 60
    percent of callers have an
    income of less than $20,000
    a year.
    An estimated $18 million in
    direct costs from tobacco use
    have been saved through the
    Helpline program.
    Source: Tobacco Settlement Endowment
    Trust
    DHS takes
    custody of
    6 kids after
    homicides
    BY JARREL WADE
    World Staf Writer
    Six children who had been living with
    their grandparents in a Tulsa home where
    four people were killed Saturday stayed with
    neighbors until Tuesday, when state ofcials
    removed them from that home.
    The children range in age from 2 months
    to 8 years old. Sgt. Dave Walker said the chil-
    drens mother took
    custody of them from
    their grandparents
    home, where four
    people were shot to
    death Saturday and
    a fth was seriously
    wounded.
    The mother later
    took them to Chris-
    tinea McMinn, who
    lives down the street,
    McMinn said.
    She and her adult
    son welcomed the
    children into their
    home with open
    arms, but they didnt
    have the resources to
    feed or bathe them,
    she said. The house
    has no gas and no
    running water, and
    they have little food,
    McMinn said.
    Department of
    Human Services of-
    cials became in-
    volved Tuesday,
    DHS spokeswoman
    Sheree Powell said.
    DHS ofcials were
    not involved with the placement of the chil-
    dren at the neighbors home, she said, adding
    that she could not discuss additional details
    about the case.
    Jordan Rufng, McMinns son, said he and
    his mother were having a hard time nancially
    Schools mull high court impact
    BY BILL SHERMAN
    World Religion Writer
    The U.S. Supreme Courts
    decision to hear a case in-
    volving Hobby Lobbys law-
    suit to opt out of certain pro-
    visions of the Afordable Care
    Act likely will afect lawsuits
    led by four Oklahoma uni-
    versities.
    But only the Supreme
    Court ruling itself, expected
    in late June, will determine
    what that efect might be.
    Thats the word from Matt
    Bowman, an attorney with
    the Alliance Defending Free-
    dom, which is representing
    the four Oklahoma universi-
    ties.
    Hobby Lobby sued the fed-
    eral government over a provi-
    sion of the new health-care
    law that requires the com-
    pany to provide its employees
    with insurance that pays for
    certain contraceptives, in-
    cluding some the companys
    owners say induce abortion.
    The Oklahoma-based
    company, whose owners are
    Christians, said the provision
    violates their religious rights.
    Four Oklahoma Christian
    universities sued the federal
    government over the same
    issue in September, joining
    dozens of similar suits across
    the country.
    They are Southern Naza-
    rene University, which is in
    Bethany and also has a Tulsa
    campus; Oklahoma Wes-
    leyan University in Bartles-
    FOUNDER
    David Green:
    Hobby Lobbys
    CEOsaid he is
    encouraged
    that the Supreme
    Court will take
    up his rms
    challenge to the
    Afordable Care
    Act.
    Supreme Court takes up
    Hobby Lobby ACA case
    BY CHRIS CASTEEL
    The Oklahoman
    WASHINGTON The U.S. Su-
    preme Court agreed Tuesday to de-
    termine whether Hobby Lobby and
    a Pennsylvania furniture company
    can deny their employees federally
    required birth-control insurance
    coverage that violates the religious
    beliefs of the company owners.
    The high court justices accepted
    cases that have received conicting
    decisions in federal appeals courts.
    Through the cases, the justices
    could determine whether the for-
    prot companies have the constitu-
    tional right and leeway under a fed-
    eral law to reject the birth-control
    Information
    sought
    Anyone with
    information about
    the homicides can
    call detectives on the
    Homicide Tip Line
    at 918-798-8477 or
    send an email to ho-
    micide@cityoftulsa.
    org.
    Those with
    information can also
    contact Crime Stop-
    pers anonymously
    and be eligible for a
    reward for informa-
    tion leading to an ar-
    rest. Crime Stoppers
    can be reached by
    phone at 918-596-
    2677, online at bit.ly/
    crimestopperstips, or
    by sending a text to
    CRIMES and begin-
    ning your message
    with Tip918.
    TULSAWORLD.COM
    Get the background
    Read previous stories and nd informa-
    tion about insurance plans available
    through the Afordable Care Act.
    tulsaworld.com/healthcarelaw
    SEE IMPACT A7
    A ruling on Hobby
    Lobbys lawsuit
    might not resolve
    suits by four schools.
    They were living with their
    grandparents in the home
    where the 4 slayings occurred.
    SEE DHS A7
    SEE COURT A7

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