Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 143, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 1972 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 58 - No. 143 - 8 Pages
HERALD
Mon., Feb. 14 1972
Sapulpa, Okla. 74066
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By ED LIVERMORE
THERE IS no doubt but what
there is basis for State
Treasurer Leo Winters’ ob-
servation that his controversy
stems from knocking some of the
big banks in i iklahoma out of the
bonanza they earned for years
on end from holding the state
general accounts at no interest.
WINTERS has been under
constant barrage since taking
office. He points to the fact, and
rightly so, that he has earned
five times as much interest for
the state as any of his
predecessors.
THE ONLY MARK against
Winters is that in doing this he
has yet to earn all he could for
the State. In other words he has
operated at about 75 per cent
speed on a track that knew
nothing but turtle times since
statehood.
THE SAME people who are
giving Winters so much trouble
are the ones who had no com-
plaint about Cowboy Pink
Williams and other state
treasurers putting out state
millions at no interest what-
soever.
THE FACT that Winters has
taken care of some of his friends
is not the least bit uncommon. If
one is in a position to render a
favor, why not select a friend
rather than an enemy?
PERSONALLY, we would like
to see Leo Winters turn all idle
state funds into the highest in-
terest bearing rates possible,
and then by himself, lobby the
state legislature for setting this
money aside for some aspect of a
special education program. We
think he has the friends in that
body and the personal leader-
ship to turn the trick.
BUT DON'T count all this
continual bickering about Leo
Winters and his handling of state
finances as 100 per cent sincere
concern on the part of powerful
influence groups in this state.
The truth is, it’s their pig under
the gate and they’re letting out
the squeal.
Change Vowed
On Bus Policy
WASHINGTON (UPI (-Pres-
ident Nixon today gave congres-
sional busing foes a firm com-
mitment to take steps necessary
to end forced busing of school
children "as we know it today,"
spokesmen said. But he withheld
his immediate support for
proposed constitutional
amendments that would outlaw
busing.
After an hour, 45-minute
meeting with the President,
Sens. Howard Baker and
William E. Brock, both Tennes-
see Republicans, said Nixon
promised such action as neces-
sary to halt forced busing.
But they said he did not
decide between three possible
avenues of action:
C-C Campaign
Kick-Off Set
The 1972 Chamber of Commerce
membership drive kicks off with a 7 a.m.
Tuesday donut and coffee breakfast at the
OG&E electric living center.
Goal for the 1972 drive is $37,890 in
funds, which includes $2,275 received from
the United Fund.
A membership drive contest is being held
with Bruce Binion as chairman.
Two teams under captains Ted V. Fisher
and Robert Basinger will cover the city.
Each team will consist of 20 two-man
teams and the winning team will win as first
prize selection of any sport coat in town.
Second prize is any pair of slacks and third
prize is the selection of any shirt and tie.
Binion will give the rules of the contest
at the start of the breakfast.
Workers will be awarded points for
each dollar increase on an “old” member and
points for each dollar pledged by a new
member. Firms that have pledged in the past,
but not paid, will be considered new mem-
bers, but points will be awarded only for cash
delivered with the pledge card. Points per
dollar decrease each day.
On Tuesday six points are awarded per
dollar on new members and five points on
existing members.
Wednesday four points per dollar will
be awarded on new members and three points
per dollar increase on existing members.
Thursday the points drop to three on new
members and two on old members and
Friday, the final day of the contesL has two
points on new members and one point on old
members.
Leon Pritchard will explain the contents of
the packet applications.
Ralph Williams, chairman of the mem-
bership committee, will introduce the team
captains.
John Frank will wrap up the breakfast
with a brief talk.
A door prize drawn by Chamber
President Marcus Horn will be awarded.
Wanda Widdoes of Southwestern Bell
Telephone company will emcee the program.
The two teams have been dubbed
"Basinger’s Bumblers” and "Fisher’s
Fumblers.”
Manpower will be in charge of Art
Atkinson and Paul Bavousette. Committee
members include Tim Hershberger, Bruce
Pollard, Howard Brown, A1 Bradley Jr., and
Dale Block.
Robber Hits
Hammon Bank
HAMMON (UPI) — A pistol
brandishing bank robber wear-
ing a red polka dotted hunting
cap took about $9,800 from
Hammon’s First National Bank
today and drove away in a yel-
low pickup truck.
The pickup had been reported
stolen Sunday night in Elk Gty.
It was abandoned and officers
said the bandit probably used
another vehicle to puncture
roadblocks that ringed the city.
The 220-pound robber was de-
scribed as r-8 with dark hair and
a two-daj beard. He was
wearing a grey hunting jacket.
Police swarmed over the
small bank shortly after the
robbery was reported at 9:39
a.m. and officials were
cautinoed by telephone not to
provide details of the robbery
until FBI agents could take
control of the investigation.
★ Forecast ★
OKLAHOMA — Partly cloudy
and cooler tonight and Tuesday.
I»w tonight lower 20s Panhandle
50 mid 30s southeast. High
Tuesday 46 to 56.
Temperature,
Monday, Feb. 14
8a.m. 5'
10a.m. *•
noon *2
1 p.m *5
Late Stock,
The Dow Tone, industrial
average was down 6.02 at 911.57
a, of 2 p m EST Monday
Volume was 11,410,000 shares
Selected list of noon prices, page
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Yank Bomb Runs
Set Record Pace
SAIGON (UPI) — American
B52 bombers flew a record 27
strikes inside South Vietnam
today during the Viet Cong Tet
Lunar New Year truce. One
American was killed in three
wounded in fighting near Saigon.
The Viet Cong truce for the
I Ainar New Year began today
and runs four days. The allies’
own truce began tonight and
runs 24 hours.
Asked why the crescendo of
bombing, a spokesman
at a military briefing today said,
"U.S. troop strength is down to
131,200 and we are going to use
our air power to protect
American troops during that
withdrawal.”
U.S. Navy and Air Force
fighter-bombers backed up the
B52s with 176 strafing runs, the
most in South Vietnam since
Sept. 24, 1970 when three were
192.
All 176 of the so called tactical U* missions today were by one
air strikes were in the Central
Highlands where U.S. in-
telligence expects any Com-
munist offensives will be
launched.
The 27 missions by the B52s
outnumbered anything in U.S.
Command records which go
back to June of 1968. But many of
Beggs Slaying
Investigated
BEGGS — Charles Duane
Duane Foreman, 26, of Okmul-
gee was shot to death today at a
residence in Beggs.
Authoritie said Foreman was
plane eacn ratner than the usual
three and well short of the six
aircraft per mission which was
common when the air war
reached its peak four years ago.
The South Vietnamese Com-
mand said the Viet Cong had
violated their own Tet truce at
least four times in the first new
hours of the stand own, killing
seven South Vietnamese troops
in the process.
The U.S. command reported
that as of 17 hours after the
beginning of the Viet Cong truce,
there had been no attacks
against American forces.
In 46 incidents in the 24 hours
ended at 6 a.m. today at least 39
,. of them initiated by Communist
shot in the chest with a 10-gauge forces m North Vietnamese
shotgun and died at the scene. and yjet Cong were Ulled >t a
Foreman’s wife Linda Uuise cost ^ ^ vietnamese
Foreman, was booked into kllled and 13 wounded along ^
Okmulgee County jail for ques- ^ Amencan Wlled and ^
tioning about the slaying. wounded.
< Seek changes in Justice
Department action toward
school desegregation suits.
Seek changes through legisla-
tive action in Congress.
Support the proposed anti-
busing constitutional amend-
ments.
Brock quoted the President as
saying: “We cannot and will not
leave the situation as it is.”
As Nixon met with leaders of a
drive to bar busing, Sen. Henry
M. Jackson, D-Wash., in-
troduced another proposed
antibusing amendment.
The Democratic presidential
candidate used “freedom of
choice” in his plan, the only one
of several pending in Congress
that used that specific language
to say parents should have the
right to choose the school their
children attended.
Nixon originally had asked
seven House and Senate mem-
bers to his conference, and
added an eighth, Sen. John G.
Tower, R-Tex„ just back from a
trip to Europe. Tower issued a
statement just prior to the
meeting saying racial integra-
tion had gone as far as it could,
and that he was against using
busing "to achieve racial
balance” in schools.
Contempt
Allegation
Due Trial
A claim of indirect contempt
of court against the operator of
the former War Bonnet
Raceway at Mannford will be
decided by a district court jury.
Defendant Robert M. Moore
Jr. asked for the jury trial
Friday after his bid to have the
suit dismissed was overruled.
District Judge Kenneth
Hughes rejected Moore’s con-
ation that the Sapulpa Court
had no jurisdiction because of a
pending appeal.
Creek County land Co. filed
the action against Moore Nov.
29, 1971, seeking the contempt
citation on grounds he had
violated an order of the court by
refusing to vacate land on which
War Bonnet was formerly
located.
It cited a court order of Aug. 3,
1970, naming National Bank of
Commerce, Tulsa, as possessor,
and an order of Aug. 12, 1970,
instructing the sheriff to place
the property in the bank’s
possession. It alleged Moore
refused to surrender possession.
The bank had bought the land
for $275,000 at public auction
July 22, 1970.
Creek County Land Co. said it
was the successor to the bank’s
interest by virtue of a general
warranty deed dated Dec. 16,
1970.
Moore contended that the land
company was not a proper party
to file the contempt action since
it was not plaintiff in the original
proceedings, and also that the
court order of August, 1971, was
not final since it was subject to
appeal.
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IT'S THAT DAY AGAIN, is plainly shown by South Heights
school third graders Terri Carnahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Carnahan, 1948 S. Independence, and Mike McCall, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dewain McCall, 1700 S. Park. (Herald Photo)
British Power Cutback
Creates Black Monday
LONDON (UPI)—Millions of
Britons shivered today in dark,
unheated homes and offices.
Industry, blacked out and
disrupted by crippling power
curbs, laid off tens of thousands
of workers.
London city authorities or-
dered most street lights, already
knocked haywire by hours-long
power cuts, switched off
altogether until the present
crisis ends.
That meant a virtual wartime
blackout, similar to that in
World War II, for this capital
city of eight million.
would be laid off by midweek.
The automotive industry was
hit hardest. British Leyland,
Jaguar, Triumph, Rover, Ford
of Britain, Vauxhall—General
Motors British subsidiary—
Chrysler and the Joseph Luca
automobile components plant
laid off or put nearly 50,000
workers on part time.
Thousands of Yorkshire and
I-ancashire steel and textile
workers were sent home.
The state-run British railroad
system canceled 1,000 trains and
stopped heating those still
Teachers Get $120,000
In Blue Cross Refund
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) —
State Insurance Commissioner
Even Buckingham Palace was Joe B. Hunt today ordered that
dark and chilly.' But Queen Blue Cross Blue Shield return
Elizabeth II was not affected about $120,000 premiums to
She is currently on a state visit Oklahoma teachers,
to Thailand with her husband Hunt said the firm is entitled
Prince Philip and her daughter to an 18 per cent rate increase.
Princess Anne. not the 31.65 per cent it had been
With a six-week-old nation- allowed to charge pending a
wide strike of 280,000 coal rehearing on the rate hike ap-
miners biting deep into fuel plication,
supplies, Britain was gripped by Blue Cross had asked last year
its grimmest industrial crisis in for a 35 per cent increase in its
a quarter-century and perhaps rates to the 20, members of the
since the 1926 general strike. Oklahoma Education As-
British newspapers called it sociation covered by its policies.
“Black Monday.” Government The firm later trimmed this to
officials predicted millions 31.65 per cenL
Tulsan Confesses Strangling Death
WAGONER (UPI) — Jack
I,ee Nesbitt, accused strangler
of 18-year-old Vicki Pappan of
Tulsa, pleaded guilty to murder
today at a preliminary hearing
before Judge C. S. Bliss Jr.
Miss Pappan was found
bound and gagged in the back
of a van truck that Nesbitt had
been using. She was only par-
tially clothed and unprocessed
film in a camera showed her
fully clothed, then in various
stages of undress while she was
alive. A magazine in the van
was opened to a picture of a
nude model in the same posi-
tion as the victim.
Formal sentencing was set
for 11:30 a. m. Feb. 22.
Asked Three Times
Bliss asked Nesbitt three
tunes if he was certain that he
wanted to enter a guilty plea.
“Yes sir” and “I am sir” were
his replies.
“Are you willing to tell this
court and the whole world,”
asked Bliss.” Again, the reply
was affirmative.
Nesbitt, 37, met with his par-
ents about 30 minutes before
the preliminary hearing not un-
derway.
Defense attorney Bill Settle
asked a delay in sentencing to
allow Nesbitt time to take care
of personal business. Bliss
granted it, pointing out that the
defendant may want to recon-
sider his plea.
Chares were filed in Wagoner
County, where detectives theor-
ized the crime occurred. Nes-
bitt's home is just east of Tulsa
at Rolling Hills.
He was the object of a nation
calmoly told officers he was
wanted for murder.
He had abandoned his car in
Nashville, Tenn.
Mental Tests Made
cy, his employer, but reluctant-
ly loaned the keys to another
employe. He disappeared before
the body was discovered.
Miss Pappan was a 1971 Me-
Nesbitt underwent more than
two months of mental observa- monaa* ^00* graduate.
______J|. Ition at Eastern State Hospital Her roommate, Mary War-
wide search until he flagged at Vinita before being allowed ren’ 18 101(1 P°*,ce that Nesbitt
down a Cincinnati, Ohio police to stand trial as competent and ',a“ asltecl scvera! limes for the
cruiser 11 days after Miss Pap- responsible. victim to pose for pictures sim-
pan’s body was discovered. He Nesbitt had been driving the (lar 10 ^ ^ magazines
sipped a cup of coffee and van for the Hobart Sales Agen-
found with the body.
Hunt held a hearing and de-
creed the firm was entitled only
to an 18 per cent increase.
However, he allowed Blue Cross
to collect the full 31.65 per cent,
holding the difference between
that figure and 18 per cent in
escrow.
The insurance commissioner
said today that the 31.65 per cent
hike request is “unfair,
unreasonable and excessive.”
The 18 per cent would “be a
fair and reasonable amount to
cover payment of claims, oper-
ating expenses and to provide
for a contingency reserve under
the contract” between the firm
and the OEA, he said.
Robert Compbell, Blue Cross
executive vice president in Tul-
sal, estimated Blue Cross had
about $120,000 in escrow under
the order, covering the months
of December, January and Feb-
ruary.
Get Future Credit
Officials said they expect Blue
Cross to give OEA members
credits on future insurance
premiums, rather than attempt
to refund the payments.
Hunt said he found that Blue
Cross, the group hospital ser-
vice, had a net income of $2
million during 1970, although the
firm is a non-rofit organization.
running in order to save electric
power. Commuters shivered as
they jammed into the trains still
running.
Officials warned that vital
food supplies were in danger. In
some parts of the country milk
bottling plants closed and milk
was rationed.
Bread and egg supplies also
were threatened because bake-
ries and packing plants were
without power.
Rotating power cuts blacked
out 10 to 15 per cent of the
country in turn for the fifth
successive day.
Street traffic lights went out in
blacked out areas, causing
immense jams.
On the I/>non stock market
nearly $3 billion was knocked off
share prices in the first few
minstes of trading.
Selling built up as investors
showed fears the crisis would
seriously hit business profits.
Incidentally
Louise Merchant and Bernadine
Harrison were seen sporting
beautiful Valentine corsages. .
former Sapulpan, Irene Brady,
now living in Tulsa says she has
to come back to Sapulpa oc-
casionally to check up and see
how all her old friends are
getting along.. even with a full
schedule Winifred Blune and
Stiirlene Vaughan find time for
>ne more good deed. . .happy
Valentine birthday to Madylon
Ray and Elbert Hart. . also
belated greetings to John Hooter
and Carla Martelle.. .the Herald
invites Vicki Whiteside and
guest to see “See No Evil”
showing tonight at the Criterion.
Present this clipping at the
boxoffice
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