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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL CCCITTY
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The Sapulpa Daily Herald
Vol. 57- No. 49- 1 Section- 14 Pages
Sapulpa, Oklahoma, 74066. Thursday, Oi tober 29, 1970
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through Friday. Low tonight
near 30 Panhandle to lower 40s
southeast. High Friday mid 60s
northeast to nud 70s southwest.
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By EO LIVERMORE
Someone reminded us that we
supported the mandatory millage
for the county health unit several
years ago, and wondered why we
are voting against the increase
requested now.
We voted for the first 1.5
mills to underwrite the program
so that the county health people
would not need to run back and
forth between the county com-
missioners and the city of Sa-
pulpa each year trying to get an
appropriation approved.
At that time we questioned
the staff director about coming
back every few years for an in-
crease in the millage. He as-
sured me, and we feel he was
sincere, that with the increasing
in assessed valuation the Health
unit would be able to have a good
program.
The Creek County Health unit
is now obtaining 1.5 mills for
its budget. It is not like the
schools, nor like every other
division of county government.
This millage is mandatory. The
county commissioners or excise
board can whack other budgets,
but not the health unit. They
are asking for an additional one
mill, making the total 2.5 mills.
The schools come back for
their millage every year, but
not the health unit. The excep-
tion is the vo-tech school and
we can put them on notice right
now that their program, as fine
as it is, may meet a different
reaction in the future. On a
mandatory basis, that is.
We do not like continued manda-
tory dollar hikes. We like for
the people to have a say every
year or so on the matter. Man-
datory millage is nothing but
ear-marked funds. We donot
agree with this type of financ-
ing. We have plenty of it now
... we donot wish to enlarge
the practice.
Additionally, we wonder why
all capital improvements and
budgetary increases must be tied
to the property owner. We will
need more schools, more city
bonds, perhaps more county
bonds one day in the future. But
those bond issues will be paid
off and retired. When you put
a mandatory millage on the tax
rolls it’s there from now on.
We have no complaint with the
Creek County Health Unit. But
they will get more money, auto-
matically. As new industries
and additional investment come
to the county, these additions
to our tax rolls will provide
additional income to the health
unit The new St. Joe Paper
plant will provide about $2000
actual dollars per year, and
this is only one instance.
We went for the first round on
the County Health Unit. We pre-
fer to take a longer look on
subsequent requests. Thus, we'll
vote “no” on the County Health
Unit mandatory millage request
Nov. 3rd.
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Third Poll Gives
Lead To Bartlett
With the gubernatorial election less than a
week away, a sizable segment is still un-
decided on how to vote, if a Sapulpa Herald
straw poll is any indicator.
The poll, third this month, showed Re-
publican incumbent Gov. Dewey Bartlett favor-
ed by 22 of the 50 persons surveyed, Demo-
crat David Hall was the choice of 18; American
party candidate Reuel Little polled 3 votes
and 7 were undecided.
In percentages, that amounts to 44 for Bart-
lett, 36 for Hall, 6 for Little and 14 undecided.
The poll was the final one of three sponsor-
ed by United Press International Editors of
Oklahoma. Statewide results w ill tie revealed
Sunday.
in the first poll Oct. 7, Bartlett had 29
votes to 18 for Hall, 2 for Little and 1 un-
decided. The second poll Oct. 20 put Bart-
lett and Hall even at 21 each with Little
getting 4 and 4 undeeiited.
The polls are not billed as a scientific
effort to predict electiqj results. However,
an attempt is maiie to obtain a representative
sample of the voting public.
Tlie third poll, as tlie first, was most
heavily sampled at random on downtown streets
with a small rural segment included. Tlie
second poll included samplings at a local
glass factory, resnlential area ami shopping
center.
Soviets Affirm Electlon
Viet Cong Ties
PARIS (UPI)— The Viet Cong
said today it has won a new
pledge of all-out support from
the Soviet Union for its struggle
against the United States. Thus,
it said, Moscow was not going
along with President Nixon's
latest new peace package.
Viet Cong spokesman Dong
Dinh Thao said after today's
fruitless session of the Viet
Nam peace talks that the
Soviets were backing fully the
Viet Cong peace plan and
condemning Nixon’s proposals
unveiled Oct. 7.
The spokesman said that at a
London meeting Wednesday
night Viet Cong Foreign Minis-
ter Madame Nguyen Thi Binh
received from Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko
“an energetic reaffirmation of
the Soviet Union's support for
our struggle against the United
States and for our peace plan of
Sept. 17.”
On Sept. 17, tlie Viet Cong in
Paris called on the United
States to agree to withdraw its
troops by June 30, 1971, in
exchange for a cease-fire and
for the constitution of a new
provisional cabinet in Saigon.
The Viet Cong spokesman
said that at tlie London meeting
Gromyko condemned Nixon’s
Oct. 7 speech as a “recognition
of the known positions of tlie
American aggression in Indoch-
ina.”
The Viet Cong spokesman
said Grokyko’s assurance to
Madame Binh indicated there
was “no change" in Moscow’s
foreign policy line on Indochina.
Thao said Madame Binh
"thanked the Soviet Minister on
he hall of Iter provisional
revolutionary government" and
expressed her satisfaction for
the "fulsome aid received from
the Soviet Union."
City Man’s Brother Lost
One of four men missing and
feared drowned whenanoil work-
boat sunk in choppy Gulf of
Mexico waters is the brother
of a Sapulpa man.
Andrew J. Hoi lan Jr. of Altus
went to work on the boat about
a month ago. He is the brother
of Frank Hollan, north of Sa-
pulpa. Two other brothers live
in the Sapulpa-Tulsa area.
The boat sunk after a large
wave washed over it off the
Louisianna coast in the Gulf.
Four of the eight-man crew sur-
vived.
The missing men, in addition
to Hollan, were Identified as
Joseph Steward of New Orleans;
Bill Driver of Lake Providence,
La.; and Douglas McMillian of
Tillabota, Miss.
The boat was owned by Landing
Marine Applicators of Harvey,
La.
Captain Arthur P. Landry was
clinging to an oil pipeline at a
Chevron Oil Co. platform when
a helicopter rescued him
Wednesday.
Bobby Burnette, 37, of Mon-
terey, La. and two other crew-
men were found in a life raft
12 miles away. The other two
were Elmer Chatman, 29, ot
Oberlin, La., and Preston Ers-
kine, 19, of New Orleans.
Promise, Dr. Leary?
CAIRO (UPI)-Dr. Timothy
F. Leary, 50, reflected on the
prison terms awaiting him In
the United States and said he
will never return to his native
land. The American LSD
advocate said he would become
a Moslem and settle in Algeria.
"I’m not going back,” Leary
said in an interview with UPI
Wednesday night. “I figure ill
return to the United States I’ll
go to prison for a total of 38
years.”
Leary and three companions,
including two Black Panther
party leaders and a leader of
the Youth International Party
(Yippies) arrived in Cairo
Tuesday from Beirut. Egypt
refused them entry, then
granted them transit visas so
they could visit Cairo en route
back to Algiers.
"I’m going to embrace Islam
and settle down with my wife in
a better place than the United
States, probably Algeria,” he
said.
Leary fled the Chino unit of
the California prison system
Sept. 13. He was serving 10
years for marijuana possession.
Leary declined to say how he
escaped from prison but Miss
Dohrn said her sister, Bernar-
dine, helped him get away.
INCOG Zone Change
Request Hearing Is Set
Directors of the Indian Nations Council of
Governments (INCOG) have requested that the
number of counties Included in its juris-
fiction be reduced from five to three.
The move Is apparently to avoid a clash
with State Sen. Clem McSpadden of Chelsea.
INCOG has asked that the Oklahoma In-
dustrial Development and Parks Commission
include only Tulsa, Osage and Creek counties
in its jurisdiction when that board draws
boundrles for regional planning districts on
Nov. 18.
Wagoner county, now included in the five
county group, has never participated in the
INCOG programs, and McSpadden has an-
nounced he will oppose an attempt to retain
Rogers county within the boundry.
INCOG requests that Creek, Osage and Tulsa
counties be Included in a permanant boundry
and that Rogers, Wagooer and Pawnee counties
be given the option to participate In any of
the programs.
INCOG serves as a distributing agency for
federal matching funds from the U.S. De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development.
Creek County Is also a member of COEDD,
Central Oklahoma Economic Development Dis-
trict.
Police Nab
2 Suspects
Rhetoric
Warms Up
By HARRY CULVER
UPI Capitol Reporter
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Republican Attorney General
G. T. Blankenship charged to-
day his Democratic opponent,
Larry Derryberry, "doesn’t
know an antitrust suit from
hogwash."
Derryberry countered tha
Blankenship must have some
“inadequacies” of his own "as
evidenced by his hiring of a
$300,000 private lawyer and fail-
ing to file briefs in tlie criminal
court of appeals.”
Blankenship defended himself
against charges by Democratic
former Attorney General
Charles Nesbitt that Blanken-
ship had to be pushed into pros-
ecuting an antitrust oil suit a
year after taking office and had
fired an assistant for prosecut-
ing the cases too vigorously.
Blankenship said this was not
true.
Blankenship was asked if he
had any further comment re-
garding Derryberry’s questions
as to when he planned to try a
pending five - year - old suit
against Apco Oil Co. and
charges Blankenship had drop-
ped a federal suit against Apco.
"I have the best record In the
United States with regard to
antitrust suits," Blankenship
said. “The Apco case is alive.
It is in court. We plan to pur-
sue it as this office thinks
best."
"And I don’t feel,” Blanken-
ship continued, “I have to an-
swer to someone who has been
In this office only two or three
times and doesn't know an anti-
trust suit from hogwash."
Blankenship then gave a
three - point reply to Nesbitt's
statements of Wednesday.
"He stated tlie oil case was
ready for trial and he handed
it to me on a silver platter,”
Blankenship said.
Asked For Extension
“First,” Blankenship said,
“They (Nesbitt) asked for an
extension of time after the
cases were set for trial in
1966."
Second, Blankenship said,
Nesbitt settled with Allied
Materials for $8,050 and with
Wilshire for $20,000. “When we
brought the case to trial and
subsequently negotiated a set-
tlement,” he said, "the state
received a check for $2.5 mil-
lion.”
"This comparison means im-
ply to me if the cases were
ready for trial In his opinion,”
Blankenship said, “the quality
of readiness was considerably
beneath the quality of readiness
wa demanded and got, which
was reflected in the fact we got
more money in regard to
asphalt suits than any other
state — $2.5 million.
Yule Parade
List Growing
The Sapulpa United Fund total
climbed more than $1,000 to
$37,949.75 in one day Wednes-
day as the first returns from a
final clean-up drive begin to
come in.
A group of volunteer workers
is contacting all firmi who were
not contacted In the regular
drive. The goal tor this yaar’s
drive is $45,000.
Trick Or Treat
For UNICEF
Sapulpa Junior and Senior High Future Homemakers of America
(FHA) girls will go trick-or-treating with a purpose Thursday
night — for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Emergency
Fund. Among the 40 girls canvassing residential areas will be
Paula Floyd, left, and Patti Curtis. (Herald Photo)
Auto Crash Kills Five
Okmulgee Tech Pupils
OKMULGEF (UPIV An auto
crashed Into a cowl etc bridge
abutment and plunged into a
creek early today, killing five
young persons.
The lone survivor, a 19-year-
old boy "ho crawled on a brok-
en leg to the highway and flag-
ged down a motorist, said the
accident occurred about 12:30
a. m. It was 3 a. m. before the
first ambulance was sent, and
another two hours before all the
bodies were freed from the
wreckage.
Names of the vtrttms and the
survivor were withheld until
relatives could be notified. Au-
thorities said all the victims ap-
peared to have been in their
lale teens or early 20s.
The youth who survived was
taken to St. Francis Hospital in
Tulsa.
All the victims were students
at Oklahoma State Tech in Ok-
mulgee. They were identified
as Karen E. Taylor, 20, and Pa-
Demos Brandish
Data On Inflation
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De-
mocratic candidates in the
stretch run of the 1970
campaign brandished new am-
munition today from a govern-
ment report showing prices in a
key area showed their largest
monthly increase in 14 years
during October.
A report by the Commerce
Department Wednesday said
the prices for industrial com-
modities had jumped 0.7 per
cent this month. It was the
largest increase for any month
since August, 1956, and Demo
crats who have emphasized
inflation and unemployment
during their campaigns were
expected to make full use of It.
The Commerce Dejiartment
report also had some good news
for President Nixon and his
Republicans. It showed whole-
sale food prices declined by 0.1
per cent this month.
Nixon continued to attempt to
counter Democratic attacks on
his economic policy Wednesday,
declaring on a campaign swing
that took him through portions
ot the South and into the Middle
West that there were “signs on
every hand that our economic
strategy is working.”
“Inflation has been checked
and will slow still further
Nixon said. “Interest rates
definitely are on the way down
and housing starts are up.”
Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew campaigned in tha South
Wednesday, continuing h 1 a
theme that “radical liberals’’
must ba turned out of
government. At Birmingham,
Ala., ha attacked the "whole
Geprgetpwm - Manhattan -Hyan-
nisport elitist axis’* and danted
ha was “pushing what tha
curled-lip boys In the Eastern
ivory towers contemptously call
a ‘southern strategy."’
Several Damocratic candi-
dates complained Wednesday at
political newspaper advertise-
ments seeking to link them with
"extremists" and “radicals.”
trlria D. Herlman, 19, both ol
Okmulgee, Bobby E. Frazier,
18, of Warner; Ricky M. Ken-
zie, 18, of Perkins, and Spencer
Clinton Smith, 21, of Muleehoe,
Tex.
James E. Burns, 19, of Tex-
lioma, the youth who servived,
was taken to St. Francis Hospi-
tal in Tulsa.
Highway Patrol Trooper Ken-
neth Strang said the auto hit a
concrete bridge abutment on
old U. S. 02 about A'k miles
east of Okmulgee and landed
upside down in a creek, in wat-
er a foot deep. The car was de-
molished.
Okmulgee police said they
were notified of the crash by a
motorist who said someone
wearing a white shirt had tried
to stop him at 2:55 a. m. The
motorist said he drove on but
stopped a short distance down
the road and called police.
Charges were pending, Thurs-
day againsl two men arrested
by Sapulpa police officers staked
out inside a pharmacy which
had been burglarized six nights
earlier.
District Attorney investigator
Jack McKenzie said both sus-
pects were hit w ith shotgun shot,
one while he was inside the Drive-
in Pharmacy No. 2, 1029 E.
Cleveland and the other outside
after Ignoring a warning to halt.
Both were treated at Bartlett
Memorial Hospital and released
and taken to Creek county tail.
Arrested were William Earl
(BUI) Williams, 22, of 826 S.
Water, and Donald (). Blrdwell,
21, of 309 N. Ross.
McKenzie said Police detective
Hill Jordan and Police! pi.Char-
les Williams were slaked out
inside the pharmacy when they
heard a glass broken at the east
drive-in window al 10:35 p.m.
Offirers said a short while
later Jordan shot Bill Williams
in the Imttorks as the suspect
was in a prescription shelf area,
and CpI. Williams fired a shot-
gun blast at Blrdwell after the
suspect refused a warning to stop
near the back ot the Ixillding.
Bird shot hit Birdwell In the
left hand.
Police said the slake out was
put into effect after the same
pharmacy was burglarized Oct.
22 of an undetermined amount
of narcotics and alxxit $200 in
cash.
The pharmacy was also the
scene ot an earlier break-ln,
and two other local drug stores
have been burglarized in recent
months - Humes Drug Store
twice and A-Keal Drug stare
once, all involving narcotics
thefts. On Monday night of this
week, an attempted forced entry
Flood Victim’s
Body Found
TAHLEQUAH (UPI) - The
body of a 70-year-old rancher
who drowned in flood waters of
the Illinois River was found to-
day on tlie river bank north of
Tahlequali.
The victim, Luther W Holder,
had been missing since late
Tuesilay when lie went to check
on some rattle. His pickup
truck was found Wednesday,
parked in three to four feet of
water on S. H. 10.
was discovered at the Drive-In
Pharmacy No, 1, 221 S. Main,
but a police patrol apparently
scared away the intruders.
A district attorney's s[Kikes-
man said a charge of second
degree burglary after former
conviction of a felony was lielng
prepared againsl Williams, and
Birdwell would tie charged with
second degree burglary.
Yank War
Toll Rises
To 43,904
SAIGON (U PI)— The U.S.
command said today 43 Ameri-
can GIs were killed in tha
V ictnam war last week and 279
were wounded.
It was the third lowest
weekly toll of the year and U.S.
military sources said the last
(our weeks have brought the
lowest combat death toll for a
28-day period since Sept. 5-Oct.
2, 1965, when 91 Americans
died.
The loll raised to 43,904 the
number of Americans killed in
tea war since Jan. 1,1961. U.S.
military sources said 38 GIs
died from noncombat causes
Iasi week to bring the total of
such fatalities to 8,730.
Soutii Vietnamese spokesmen
said government troop deaths
also reflected the relative lull
in fight with 215 dead for the
week. It was the second lowest
government death toU of the
year, surpassed only by 197
dead in the week ending Jan.
17.
The U.S. command said the
latest wounded toll brought the
U.S. wounded for the war to
291,024.
It was the fourth consecutive
week the U.S. combat death toll
has been less than 50 and the
17th straight week it was under
100.
The U.S. command said
Allied forces killed 1,484 Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese
last week, bringing to 678,601
tlie number of Communist
troops reported killed In the
war.
The U.S. command said 1,428
Americans have now been
reported missing, captured or
interned.
UF Jumps
Up $1,000
Plans are underway for this
year's annual Christmas Parade,
scheduled for Dec. 4, at 6:30
p.m. through downtown Sapulpa.
Parade chairman Bruce Blnion
reports that he has already ac-
cepted entries from bands, Shrln-
ers, drill teams, floats, scout
troops, campfire girls and other
attractions.
Health Unit
Open House
Among an estimated 250 to 300 persons visiting new Creek
County Health Department quarters at 23 N. Main Wednesday
durfog open house were Mr*. Harold Bandy and grandson Scott
Laater. (Herald Photo)
Folks at the Creek County
Health Department had words
of thanks today for the Pro-
gressive Extension Club’s help
in acting as hostesses at open
house Wednesday. . .MRS. MAY-
NARD LOVE is president. . .
DUFFY FREEMAN brought in a
gorgeous multi colored dahlia
bouquet . .one white bloom was
10 Inches wide. . .MRS. RICK
GROSSHANS has a 3 months old
Basset puppy needing a good
home. . .call her at 224-6786.
. .DALE BLOCK says thanks to
all the dozens of workers over
the city who worked to make
the United Fund residential drive
a success.. .the GEORGE LET-
LOWS are showing films of their
trip abroad at 7:30 p.m. Friday
at Good Shepherd church. . .
a card shower la suggested for
MRS. O.L. (MAE) RUSH who la
in room 4502, Htllcrest Medical
Center after surgery. . .DIXIE
WALLACE says don’t plan to
sleep late if you are planning
a garage sale.. .the customers
have other Ideas!
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