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Aerobatic Duster set Saturday
Fightslnfestation
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (UPI)
— A dazzling blue Alabama
sky greets Jack Duke as he
noses his chunky biplane
skyward. Seconds later, with
unerring accuracy, Duke
skims over a 30-acre soybean
field “dusting" the crop.
At the end of the field, just
yards from a dump of pine
trees, the 45-year-old Duke
manhandles the whining
plane into a climb that peaks
at about 400 feet. Then it's
another harrowing trip under
utility lines and across the
field.
“You lose more pilots in the
turn than anywhere,” said
Duke, a lean, soft-spoken
veteran of 18 years of crop-
dusting. “You’ve got an
overloaded airplane and you
liave to turn downwind.”
Cropdusters often are por-
trayed as barnstorming
daredevils who put on
sununer aerobatics through
much of the countryside
where cropdusting is most
prominent — an “L"-shaped
region from Washington state
to Texas and east to Florida.
I,ast year, some 30 crop-
duster pilots died in ac-
cidents. But the fatality rate
has been on the decline for
the past 10 years — according
to the National Agricultural
Aviation Association — and
there are fewer accidents
than in general aviation
based on the number of hours
flown.
The decreased fatality rate
is because many World War
II-vintage aircraft, such as
the Stearman biplane with
which Duke learned his
trade, are being repalced by
aircraft designed specifically
for the nimble twists and
turns employed in the
cropduster pilot’s trade.
"You certainly have to be
alert at all times,” said Duke,
who operates a one-airplane
operation from his home.
“But as long as the plane is
running okay, I wouldn’t call
this dangerous work.”
Duke has clipped tree limbs
and utility lines in his low-
level precision work that
requires him to drop a card-
board plate with a tissue
paper streamer attached to
mark his swath. Too much of
the chemical can "bum" the
crop and too little can allow
insect infestation.
A crash in 1974 left Duke
unscathed, a tribute to the
sturdy “Ag-Cat” biplane with
which he applies insecticides,
herbicides and seedlings.
"The gas got to sloshing
around and I lost the prime,”
said Duke, a slight grin
breaking his weathered face
as he recalled the crash. “She
just stalled on me and I tried
to set her down on a muddy
field and over I went.”
But his wife, Ruby, worries
about her husband. Because
Duke’s grass airstrip is a
mere 50 feet from his back
door, his wife can hear the
450-horseoower Pratt &
Whitney radial engine
protesting every climb while
the plane’s hopper is loaded
with up to 300 gallons of
chemical.
"It’s not good to live with
the work but it’s a matter of
convenience for me," said
Duke, who performs most of
his work within 10 miles of his
home. “Ruby hears the
engine missing and she runs
out on the strip. But now I’ve
installed a radio in the house
so she can call me and see if
I’m in trouble.”
His wife isn’t the only one
who puts up with the noise
from the stubby, green-and-
yellow “Ag-Cat." In the
midst of July and August, the
stillness of the quiet coun-
tryside is often broken by
Duke’s antics that to the
inexperienced observer
border on insanity.
"I spray for mosquitoes for
Moundville and a couple of
other areas and they pay just
expenses," Duke said. “It’s
good public relations. Those
people put up with my noise
on Sunday morning. They
have to listen to me and I’m
waking them up.’’
Duke, an electrician in the
off-season, has piloted
several of the specialized
cropdusters, ranging from
the Cessna “AgWagon” to the
Piper Pawnee. But he prefers
the "Ag-Cat," with its dual
wing system for increased lift
for climbs and for takeoffs
from farm roads.
The “Ag-Cat,” a biplane
with an enclosed cockpit high
atop the fuselage to give the
pilot maximum visibility and
to protect him from the
chemicals he is spraying, has
changed little over its 20
years of existence. It is
designed for economy
(agricultural aircraft can
apply chemicals more
cheaply than tractors),
power and speed.
“Every minute you’re up
there and not spraying,
you’re wasting money,” said
Duke, who earns more than
$30,000 in the three-month
season from his 40 clients,
none of whom have a written
contract for his services.
“Farmers are the most
honest people in the world,”
Duke said. "They’re also the
nicest in the off-seasq^But if
some insects get in the crop
they can get mighty im-
patient.”
For that reason, Duke must
fly daily during the height of
the growing season, dusting
cotton and soybeans.
“At night, sometimes I get
nut of that plane and my legs
are weak from working the
rudder bar all day," he said.
“I started out flying as a
hobby, an expensive one. You
needed college to be an
airline pilot so I made ag
aviation my work.”
More than 7,200 pilots are
licensed agricultural
aviators, and a record 300
million acres of farmland
were sprayed last year.
Gospel Singing
Set Thursday
SAND SPRINGS - The
Skyview Assembly of God
Church, 42nd Everett St., will
sponsor free gospel singing
Thursday night beginning at
7:30 p.m.
Singers will be the Thomas
Family Singers, formerly
known as the Christ
Messengers.
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Funeral services for the
father of Mrs. Ray Conners,
10 Woodland Rd., were held
Saturday at Cushing.
Hubert C. Rodman, 00,
Hennessey, a former resident
of Cushing, died Thursday In
a Hennessey Nursing Home.
Burial was in Fairlawn
cemetery at Cushing.
Rodman was an employee
of Glen Gillespie and Sons
nrining Co. and later em-
ployed by the Cushing
Municipal hospital until his
retirment five years ago.
Besides Mrs. Conners,
survivors include two sons,
another daughter, three
brothers, five sisters, father,
ten grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
Indian Meeting
Set Saturday
An All-Area Indian Com-
munity meeting will be held
Saturday at 10 a.m. at the
Indian Community Center,
520 S. Adams, said Mose Cah-
wee, program chairman.
Creek Indian Chief Claude
Cox will be present at the
meeting along with Creek
representative Robert Tripp.
Planning of youth and adult
education programs for area
communities will be ex-
plained at the meeting, and
the Indian Clinic-Community
building under construction
in Sapulpa will be discussed,
Cahwee said.
The youth program win-
terization project also will be
discussed, Cahwee added.
All area Indians are urged
to attend the meeting, Cah-
wee said.
A food sale sponsored by
the Sapulpa Indian Com-
munity will be held at noon at
the meeting site. Proceeds
will help defray expenses of
programs sponsored by the
Sapulpa Indian Community.
Albert Taylor
Dead At 63
Albert N. Taylor of
Kellyville died Wednesday at
his home. He was 63
Born May 24, 1915 in
Gentry, Ark., Taylor lived in
the Sapulpa area most of his
life. He was a member of the
I,ocal 351 Pipefitters Union
and the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife,
Marie, of the home; six
sons—Bob of Ashland, Kans.,
Noel of I .akin, Kans., Dan,
Randall and Terry of
Kellyville and David of
Paden— and a daughter, Nita
Young of Oklahoma City.
Funeral arrangements are
pending with Smith Funeral
Home.
Explosion
Rips Embassy
MOSCOW (UPI) - A small
explosion and electrical fire
knocked out power today in
the U.S. Embaassy.
The blast, which slightly
injured an American Navy
Sea bee, occurred in a
basement electrical power
control room near the em-
bassy commissary.
The basement of the main
embassy building was
evacuated and embasay
workmen w e a r I n g oxygen
masks managed to extinguish
the blase within 10 minutes.
The cause of the fire was
not Immediately known. But
witnesses said the Seabee
enlisted man had alerted
commissary employees and
cashiers to light candles
because the light* were foing
out
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blast and Bra.
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Sapulpans’
Vacations
Are Varied
Sapulpans are varrying
their vacation appetites from
"just staying home” to
foreign travel, according to a
sampling taken this week by
the Hearld.
Perhaps one of the most
ambitious trips was taken by
Dr. and Mrs. T.D. Powell,
6121 E. 97th who recently
returned from Finland and
Russia. ‘W e flew to Finland
and took a cruise to Russia
for about two weeks,' Mrs.
Powell said.
The Darel Elmore’s of 1916
S. Cedar said, “We met our
son of Prineville, Oregon in
Pinevale, Wyoming. We
stayed in state parks, visited
Yellowstone and the Tetons.”
They returned through the
Rockies, giving them a full
taste of mountains.
Later in the fall Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Adams, NE of
Sapulpa plan a “trip to
Arkansas, but we aren’t
sure.”
“We don’t take regular
vacations but we fish a couple
times a week all year ‘round
in area lakes” according to
Mrs. T. R. Beasley, 101 S.
Hickory.
A trip to the attractions of
Six Flags, Arlington, Texas,
provided the vacation en-
tertainment for the Raymond
Fox’s of 426 N. Ross.
Denver and Fr. Gibson lake
were the attractions for the
vacation of Mary Grummitt,
1301 S. Park.
But perhaps the most
popular vacation attitude, at
least during July, was trying
to “remain cool” for those in
the Sapulpa area.
Indians
Pow-Wovv
At Capital
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
The Hopi “grandfather”
removed his red headband,
brushed a white powder
against his lips, recited some
prayers in a low voice, and
sprinkled the powder on Vice
President Walter Mondale’s
desk and light blue carpet.
Thus began a three-hour
White House session with
“Grandfather” David
Monongye, a Hopi Indian
from Arizona who is over 90,
and more than a dozen other
Indian elders.
Mondale, Interior
Secretary Cecil Andrus and
his assistant for Indian
matters, Forrest Gerard,
attended the meeting with
representatives of the
"Longest Walk" march that
started in San Francisco and
is concluding with a week of
demonstrations in
Washington. Mondale called
the march “dramatic and
courageous.”
The group was expected to
demonstrate today in front of
the White House and across
the street at Lafayette
Square against President
Carter’s human rights stand,
which they charge is
“hypocritical” because it
does not focus on abuses in
the United States.
Carter initially was ex-
pected to attend Tuesday’s
White House session with the
elders, but the Indians, many
with long braids, feathered
head dresses, moccasins and
traditional jewelry, were
almost an hour late and
Carter had other ap-
pointments on Ms schedule.
A large group of Indians
demonstrating at the FBI
headquarters received even a
leu friendly reception.
A long metal gate was
pulled acrou the fortrou like
building early in the day “u
a precaution,” a spokesman
■aid.
Mandate told the IndUns he
would “remain open" to the
Indian views and would make
a fun report on the meeting to
Carter, Me epokeunaa eaM.
The InMane presented five
principal iaanee, the
spokesman eaM, tadadtog
reqaasto far a meeting wife
Carter. "Indian treatise,
Letters
To The
Editor
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Dear Editor:
I attended the City Com-
mission meeting lest Monday
night, and received a Plaque,
for wMch I am humbly
grateful, from Vice Mayor
Harris, and the City of
Sapulpa.
After this I couldn’t hardly
believe my ears, when I
heard the Commission refuse
a Burning Permit to a
developer here in our City,
who wanted to clean up an
eye, and nose sore, that has
been here well over 40 years.
A place the city would never
undertake to clean up. The
reason, was that the smoke
was harmful to someone in
the area.
Now the city would have
been ahead to pay the cost of
the person, or persons, who
are effected, to take a trip to
a cool spot, while the brush
was burning. Today (July IS)
the dty is burning brush from
Main St. to the Kelly Lane
Park, but no one was asked if
this effected anyone along the
creek. Maybe the difference
is on what side of the creek
you live on.
Personally, I like the odor
of burning wood, its not like
burning a land fill. I wanted
to say something about that
little program along Rock
Creek, but Ed won’t let me
call names, or use words he
doesn’t understand, so I’U
stay off that firecracker.
I will say, we need a strong
clean up program in our dty,
and many of our developers
want to help, so lets help
them, as well as helping each
other.
Rev. T. Howard Allen
Hart Is Denied
Relief Hearing
PRYOR, Okla. (UPI) — A
Mayes County judge has
denied a post-conviction
relief hearing on 12-year-old
charges filed against the man
accused of killing three Girl
Scout campers.
Judge William Whistler
denied the hearing request
filed by a defense attorney for
Gene Leroy Hart. Garvin
Isaacs sought the hearing in
connection with a 1966 case
against Hart involving the
kidnapping and rape of two
Tulsa Women.
Isaacs said Hart was
denied due process of law and
had incompetent counsel in
the 1966 case. He also alleged
Hart was not informed of his
constitutional rights at the
time he pleaded guilty to the
charges.
Assistant District Attorney
Royce Hobbs said Hart had
personally filed an ap-
plication for a post-conviction
relief hearing in 1972, but the
court had denied that ap-
plication. Hobbs said Hart
appealed the denial, but
escaped from the Mayes
county jail before the state
Court of Criminal Appeals
could rule on the appeal.
Hart escaped from the
Mayes county jail in 1973 and
remained free until this year.
He is charged in Mayes
county with three counts of
first-degree murder stem-
ming from the June 13, 1977
sex slayings of Leri Lee
Farmer, Michele Guse and
Doris Denise Milner at Camp
Scott near Locust Grove.
Grease Fire
Stops Lunch
A pease fire dosed Dickies
Fish k Chips, 1004 E. Dewey
Avenue, prior to the noon
rush hour Wednesday and
filled the restaurant with
smoke.
The fire started in the
kitchen area of the E. Dewey
establishment around 10:55
p.m.
A Sapulpa Fire Depart-
ment crew was dispatched to
the scene in minutes.
“Smoke was billowing
across Dewey Avenue
making it look like the whole
place was burning down,”
one witness indicated.
The restaurant was closed
for the remainder of the day.
Galaxy Home
Burgled Here
At Midday
A Southern Hills residence
was burglarized at middday
Tuesday. Intruders made off
with an estimated $1,800 in
jewelry, guns and cash.
The burglary, according to
police reports, occurred
between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m. at the residence
of Jack McMillon, 2550
Galaxy Road.
The front door of the
southern Sapulpa residence
was apparently pried open,
according to reports.
Items stolen from the
residence were $100 in coins,
$250 in cash, two hand guns
and an M-l rifle valued at
approximately $450. Other
items also missing included a
diamond rings, earrings and
necklace valued at ap-
proximately $1,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth McMillon
discovered the break-in
around 1:30 p.m. when she
returned home for lunch.
Caution Costs Match
For Chess Challenger
BAGUIO, Phillipines
(UPI) — Soviet Defector
Viktor Korchnoi showed
unusual caution in the first
game of the World Chess
Championship and it cost him
the psychological advantage
he so desperately wanted
over title holder Anatoly
Karpov.
Korchnoi, playing white,
begrudgingly accepted a
draw from Karpov Tuesday
after only 18 moves and
angrily stalked out of the hall.
Champion and challenger
took a day off today.
The best description of the
game came from U.S. Grand
Master Robert Byrne.
"The pieces are in a very
dangerous position—for the
spectators," he said with a
simulated yawn. “They
might fall asleep any
moment.”
Korchnoi, the balding 47-
year-old defector to the West,
opened the $550,000 head-to-
head series with an unusual
move of pawn to queen
bishop’s four.
The attack, known aa the
English opening, is not as
aggressive as the more
common pawn to king four
and was all the more unusual
because Korchnoi is known as
an aggressive player who
usually spurns cautious play.
Chess experts said the
challenger, who is using toe
tournament as s public forum
to demand the Soviet Union
allow his wife and son to join
him In the West, wanted a
victory in the first game to
serve Mm ae a psychological
edge over the favored
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Window Broken
A S. Birch Street resident’s
rear bedroom window was
shattered by a rock late
Tuesday night. The family
dog was also injured in the
rock-throwing incident.
Charles Bridges of 219 S.
Birch Street reported the
incident to city police around
11:45 p.m.
There was no damages
estimates made on the
window.
"\bu’re right, dad,
the time to chink about
his future is now...”
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If so, he had only himself to
blame for the draw. He
controlled the tempo of play,
with Karpov content to match
his moves.
Karpov, the 27-year-old
Russian whiz kid who won the
world title by default when
America’s Bobby Fischer
refused to play him, declined
Korchnoi’s gambit and
followed the challenger he
personally dislikes to the
sedate draw after two hours
of play.
A conservative player at all
times, Karpov unfailingly
takes the defensive when he
plays black and he made no
exception Tuesday.
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