Bonny Looks to Former Bases to Help Rural Economy

From: The Journal Record | Date: January 22, 1994| Author: Lou Anne Wolfe | Copyright information

Jack Bonny would like nothing better than to see the economy take off in rural Oklahoma.

"Jobs are drying up," said the Democrat state representative from Burns Flat. "I know my children would move back to western Oklahoma in a heartbeat if we had jobs there."

Bonny, who is vice chairman of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Economic Development Committee, co-chaired an interim legislative study with Sen. Gilmer Capps, D-Snyder on revitalization of former military bases ...

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