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In Mississippi
OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL COCILTY
HISTORICAL BUI LOIS'}
OKIA. CITY, OKLA. 73135
Brinlee Caught!
Sapulpa Daily
HERALD
OKIAHOMA CITY (UPI)-
Kscaped killer Hex Brinlee Jr.,
who had eluded officers for six
weeks and twice talked his way
out of being jailed, was arrested
today in Biloxi. Miss, by police
and federal agents.
Brinlee, who had been sched-
uled to go on tiie Federal Bureau
of Investigation’s list of 10 moat
wanted fugitives Wednesday,
escaped from the Oklahoma
State Penitentiary at McAlester
Aug. 5 in the aftermath of a
bloody eight-day prison riot.
His capture in Biloxi was an-
nounced today by the FBI office
in Oklahoma City
He was arrested on a federal
warrant issued Aug 8 in
Muskogee, charging him with
unlawful interstate flight to
avoid confinement after convic-
tion for murder The FBI said
Brinlee had been living in the
Biloxi area under the name of
Robert Foreman and was em-
ployed by a plumbing contract-
ing company in the area
Brinlee was convicted in No-
vember, 1971, of the bomb slay-
ing of Fern Bolding. 2a. a Bris-
tow kindergarten teacher She
was killed after entering her
husband's pickup truck, parked
at the couple's residence Her
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By ED LIVERMORE
THE WIDOW of Chilean
I “resident Salvador Allende has
Y flown to Mexico City declaring
' that facists have taken over her
homeland
CONSIDERING all the
upheaval caused by Communist
President Allende since his
strong-arm troops siezed ballot
boxes and stole him into office,
this complaint falls on deaf ears
ALLENDE took over Chile
after his phony election with a
barrage of promises for the
natives. In order to bring about
these great dreams, he ex-
plained, he had to abolish a few
of the personal freedoms that
had been going on for many
years With the hope of new land
. for farms, more money for their
work, etc., the natives quickly
agreed that things like freedom
of the press and trial by jury
were small compared to the
rewards just ahead
THE ONLY PROBIEM-
Allendr was unable to deliver
the promises All he did was
discontinue personal freedom
The country fell into disrepair,
public services dwindled away,
employment dropped because
Allende couldn’t produce and
sell as private investors had
done previously
THE RESULT: a military
junta took over Whether this
group has any plans to return the
country to a form of democracy
remains to be seen The point is.
we cannot be concerned with
Allende's widow crying "facist”
THEY CAN be no worse than
Allende and his band of Com-
munists
OSSAA Says
Chieftains 4A
The Oklahoma Secondary
Schools Activities Association
Monday reclassified Sapulpa
High school basketball and
baseball programs to the tough
4A division.
The reclassification will go
into effect for the 1973-74 season
For more details see page 6.
★ Forecast ★
Oklahoma - Fair to partly
cloudy through Wednesday with
warm afternoons and cool
nights. High today upper 60s to
mid 70s. I-ow tonight mostly 50s
High Wednesday 78 to 85
Probation
Use Backed
OKl-AHOMA CITY (UPI>-
Oklahoma is "not doing so bad-
ly” in placing persons on pro-
bation judges probably would
use that device more if more
supervision and services were
offered, a state official said to-
day.
Marion Opala. administrator
of the state's court system, said
state judges in recent years
have come a long way in de-
veloping probation as a very
useful tool for non-inshtutional-
ized correction.”
C. E. "Buck'' Williams, dep-
uty director of the state correc-
tions department, said the num-
ber of persona on probation in
Oklahoma has increased eight-
fold during the past seven years,
but the ratio of probation of-
ficers had not kept pace
More On Probation
Williams said he believes
mare persons should be placed
on probation and the average
caseload of probation officers
decreased
Opala said research indicates
“a very substantial percentage”
Fraud Case
Term: Year
NEW YORK (UPIl- Jack U
Clark of Oklahoma City,
described by the government as
the key figure in the nation's
largest stock fraud case, was
sentenced today to one year in
prison.
Federal Judge Thomas P.
Griesa unposed the sentence on
Clark after rejecting a defense
plea that the defendant be
placed on probation
Hark, former board chairman
and president of Four Seasons
Nursing Centers, pleaded quilty
last June to one count of a 33-
count indictment against him.
He allegedly profited by S10
million in a scheme that the
government said resulted in a
$200 million loss to the investing
public.
Hark, who will be eligible for
parole in four months, could
have received a maximum of
five years in prison and a $10,000
fine. No fine was imposed by
Griesa.
Griesa, in what was consid-
er .d an unusual move, limited
the area of Clark's wrongdoing
to the months of April, May, and
June in 1970.
of persons placed on probation
never return to a life of crime,
whereas "Most institutionalized
convicts became recividists "
Opala said probation ia a
fairly new” concept in the state
judiciary," Opala said. "It is
perhaps a correctional device
that was not in years past as
common in our state court sys-
tem as it was in the federal court
system."
Oklahoma lacked a statewide
probation system until the cor-
rections department was creat-
ed in 1967, he said
Not Enough OHiceri
Opala said the lack of suffi-
cient probation officers to su-
pervise probationers "could be a
very important factor keeping
judges from placing persons on
probation."
"They may be afraid he’ll go
wild, and they can't afford to let
him go without supervision.'
Williams said about 1.000 per-
sons were on probation In Okla-
homa when his department was
created in 1967, with 10 officers
to supervise the 1,000
“Neither clerical nor officer-
wiae have we kept abreast of the
increase in cases," he said
The department now has 69 of-
ficers to supervise about 8,500
probationers, he said.
"It should peak out at around
10,000 cases." he said.
Heavy Caseloads
Each field probation officer
now is carrying an average
caseload about three tunes the
number recommended by
federal officials and twixe that
recommended by most states
having a successful probation
and parole program, he said
“As long as the caseloads per
officer remain at the present
level or increase slightly, only-
surveillance and reporting type
supervision can be ac-
complished." Williams said.
“Objective type' supervision
such as extensive counseling and
referral to other agencies for
help, treatment or guidance is
made impossible except in the
most glaringly obvious cases,”
be said.
Williams said a reduction in
caseload would allow more time
for assessment and would "no
doubt bring about a reduction in
the number of revocations.”
“The end product of keeping
the offender on the street and
gainfully employed as a law-
abiding citizen would be of much
greater benefit to himself and to
society,” he said.
husband, Don Bolding, had been
scheduled to testify against
Brinlee in an auto theft trial m
Tulsa three days later
Brinlee was arrested briefly
on two occasions after his es-
cape, in Texas and lz>uisiana,
and both times convinced the
arresting officers he was some-
one else. He was released before
his true identity could be
established
The FBI said Brinlee would be
taken before a committing
magistrate as soon as possible
Brinlee had been reported
seen recently in many parts of
Oklahoma, including Moore,
Anadarko and Inwton. State
crime bureau officials, however,
had doubted he was In the state.
Brinlee went to McAlester on a
conviction of murdering Mrs.
Bolding in Bristow Feb 2, 1971
The case was tried in Okmulgee
county in November of that year
after Brinlee won a change of
venue from Creek county.
The former Tahlequah
nightclub and apartment owner
was transferred in June. 1971,
from the Creek county jail to
Tulsa county for security
reasons after an escape attempt
was reported.
At his arraignment in Sapulpa
on the murder charge, a county
jail cellmate testified Brinlee
planned to escape, fly to the
Texas Gulf Coast and eventually
flee to South America.
Bnnlee's wife was accused of
smuggling hacksaw blades into
the Creek county jail inside a
transistor radio. Sheriff's of-
ficers discovered the blades
before the escape could be at-
tempted
Plan Outlined
The cellmate testified
Brinlee's plan was to saw his
way out of jail, reach the
courthouse roof and wait for
Mrs. Brinlee to come and throw
a rope to allow him to escape.
From there they were to fly to
a ranch at Port Isabel, Tex., get
on a boat “and stay In neutral
waters a few months, then fly to
Chile.’'
Another cellmate later
testified that Brinlee had
planned to kill two of the four
prisoners who were to par-
ticipate in the breakout.
‘Control’
Concept
Supported
By HARRY CULVER
UPI Capitol Reporter
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)- A
veteran Comanche County
prosecutor proposed today that
Oklahoma's penal system be
based on concepts of "control''
rather than punishment and re-
habilitation.
Under the change, a person
convicted of a crime would be
released from prison whenever
it was determined he had devel-
oped sufficient self-control to go
straight.
The proposal came from Dis-
trict Attorney Vernon Field of
I aw ton, who has served seven
years as a prosecutor
Field, who appeared before a
special legislative committee on
penal reform, said “The reason
the people in this room are not in
prison is vecause they have
developed the self-control not to
violate the law.”
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Sapulpa Estates’ Bid
Due Committee Study
Telex's Stock U IBM Skids
TULSA (UPI)- For the first
time, a smaller computer com-
pany has been successful in
antitrust suit filed against IBM,
and computer analysts believe
the long-term effects of the
decision could stagger the
monolith of the industry.
“If IBM doesn't win its appeal
this matter could be damn
serious," Stover Babcock of the
Dreyfus Fund said.
The immediate effects of Mon-
day’s $352.5 million decision in
favor of Telex Corp., an Okla-
homa-based computer company,
was to send IBM's stock down
$26 a share to $272 on the New
York Stock Exchange. Telex
shares nearly doubled, rising
$3.38 to $7.63 a share
U. S. District Judge A. Sher-
man Christensen, in a 217-page
decision, granted a $352.5 million
award to Telex and ordered IBM
to halt its unit price tactics
which competitors claim forces'
customers to accept systems
comprised entirely of IBM
components.
The loss was the first in court
against IBM and industry
spokesmen said the outcome
could bring a deluge of similar
suits by smaller peripheral data
processing firms. But nothing
will be known until the appeals
are settled.
“The impact could be wide-
spread in the industry if IBM
loses (the appeal), and it will be
at IBM's expense," said John
Moffat of Blyth, Eastman and
Dillon. “Uniform pricing could
hurt IBM and help some of the
peripheral companies."
Economist Eliot Janeway said
"The Democlean sword hanging
over all the big corporations
seems to have fallen somewhat
in the direction of the Jugular "
Christenson also awarded a
smaller counterclaim of $21,013,-
776 to IBM which contended
Telex had infringed on IBM
copyrights. Telex attorneys said
they might appeal this judgment
and may also pursue an inter-
national antitrust suit against
the computer giant.
"We’re quite pleased with the
outcome and feel that Telex's
decision to pursue this litigation
has been fully justified," Telex
president Steven Jatras said.
Christensen ordered IBM to
halt its unit price tactics, which
competitors claim place
customers in the position of
either accepting an all-IBM
system or being unable to obtain
any IBM equipment. This
practice, they claim, effectively
shuts off the market for their
compatible units which can be
used with IBM systems.
Discussion of streets in the
Sapulpa Estates addition,
proposed for annexation to the
city, occiqaed the major portion
of a slim agenda for the Sapulpa
City Commission Monday night.
Mayor Berry Simpson ap-
pointed a committee of com-
missioners Dale Block, Kelly
lane and Walter Jones to meet
with Sapulpa Estates developer
Charles Harbor and report back
to the entire commission
Harber on Sept 4 asked the
commission to annex the ad-
dition south of town, consisting
of 37 lots ranging in size from 11
to 5.13 acres The request was
tabled because of commission
questions, primarily about
streets
Harbor told the commission
Monday night he would gravel
streets to a 4-inch thickness
immediately and within 9
months of signing a contract
with the city or upon selling 25
per cent of the lots would lay
streets of 6-inch compacted
gravel with a double bituminous
surface, and put up a 30-month
maintenance bond.
Such a surface complies with
Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission regulations for
developments of 1-acre or larger
lot sizes, he said
He also proposed to put in 6-
inch asbestos concrete water
lines.
Jim Kohler, a resident of the
adjoining Southern Hills ad-
dition. told commissioners that
“now would be the time to
require some other entry” Into
the Sapulpa Estates addition
besides Galaxy Road
Pressure Problem
Kohler said "there are times
now in Southern Hills when we
have no water pressure and
other times when it is low " He
said he feared tying the new
addition onto the city water
system would further com-
plicate pressure problems He
also said because of the limited
access to the new addition “one
car could block that entire ad-
dition."
Harbor said engineers had told
him hooking on a 6-tnch water
main to Sapulpa Estates would
"help, not hinder, Southern
GASOLINE RETAILERS continue to have their troubles, such closed during the weekend in protest opened again today,
as this one at 201N. Mission which has shut down, proclaiming it • Herald Photo)
because of Phase 4. Most Oklahoma City area stations which
Permit Consideration Requested
A spokesman for Sapulpa's
Auxiliary Police asked the city
commission Monday night to
consider re-instating free golfing
and fishing privileges at city
facilities.
The commission voted this
summer to recall all free per-
mits until a decision was made
concerning a permanent policy
Bill Taylor, Auxiliary Police
spokesman, said the
organization had donated 2,000
man-hours of service to Sapulpa
the past year They receive no
pay
Members of the 25-man force
are dedicated men of civic
feeling," Taylor said. They have
$12,000 of their own money in-
vested in equipment such as
radios They buy their own
uniform and own equipment."
“This little bit of a thing
i fishing and golfing privilege i
UAW Gets ’30 And Out*
Clause; Wage Plea Cut
DETROIT (UPI) — Despite
tentative agreement Monday to
end its strike against Chrysler
Corp., the United Auto Workers
said today assembly lines
probably will not roll again until
next week.
This, said UAW President
l-eonard Woodcock, is because it
will take the rest of this week for
national and local officers to
ratify the settlement
Under the contract, the UAW
won a breakthrough 30-and-out
retirement plan and obtained
relief from mandatary overtime
rules.
In turn, workers wall receive
less money than they wanted.
Woodcock called the non-
money issues in the contract a
"tremendous breakthrough,"
especially the introduction of a
system that will allow employes
to retire on a pension after 30
years’ work regardless of their
age.
Pending ratification of the
settlement, about 113,000 blue
collar workers remain away
from work.
Henry Okayed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee approved Henry A.
Kissinger's nomination as
secretary of state today The
vote was 16 to 1, with Sen.
George S McGovern, D-S. D„
casting the lone dissenting vote.
; Still working, although
negotiations continue on a
contract covering them, were
about 15,000 white collar
workers.
The announcement Monday of
the three-year contract came
just 63 hours after the UAW
called the strike in 22 states and
Canada. It was the fastest set-
tlement in UAW history. The
previous record for brevity was
nine days in 1955 against Ford
Motor Co.
Agreement came after nearly
30 hours of marathon bar-
gaining, interrupted only once
Stagecoach On
Auction List
The Roy Wickham antique
collection including a
stagecoach, 50 buggys and 2
surreys will be sold at auction
Thursday
The auction will begin at 10
a.m. at the Wickham farm south
of the golf course, or 2H miles
west of the Main-Taft in-
tersection
Auctioneers will be Gilbert
Johnston. Jerrv Varner, Sam
Johnston, Bill Hatfield and Bill
Hatfield Jr.
Farm tools, trucks, tractors,
and vast collection of harness
and 300 buggy wheels are in-
cluded on the sale bill.
for three hours when negotiators
said they showed signs of
weariness.
Besides the 30-and-out retire-
ment plan, the major non-
economic feature of the contract
concerned the mandatory
overtime that automakers can
demand of workers.
Under the new contract,
workers can refuse to work more
than nine hours a day or more
than 54 hours a week or more
than two consecutive Saturdays.
But the company retains certain
limited rights to impose man-
datory overtime.
Pay will increase 3 per cent
yearly in each of the three years
of the pact, less than the UAW
sought Woodcock said the cost
of the package was "very, very
high" for the UAW because of
the non-money concessions
Chrysler made.
The UAW, which will take
essentially the same agreement
to Ford and General Motors
Carp, for contract talks with
them, gained increased fringe
benefits in hobdays, insurance
and medical benefits and im-
proved health and safety checks
in plants
Temperature
Tuesday 1 p.m 64
Late Stocks
The Dow Jones industrial
average was off 6 02 at 886 97 as
of 2 p.m EDT Tuesday Volume
was 11,590.000 shares Selected
list of noon prices, page 8.
was really apprec iated by them
They didn't abuse it."
When called on, Auxiliary-
Police members had at times
donated their service all night
then gone back to their regular
jobs the next day. Taylor said
Mayor Berry Simpson told
Taylor "We really appreciate
the work of the Auxiliary Police
The reason the permits were
recalled was the matter was
getting a little out-of-hand It
seemed bke everybody in town
had a permit.”
A study committee is expected
to make a recommendation to
the commission on a permit
policy.
Pool Date
Is Oct. 2
Final inspection an the new
Sapulpa municipal swimming
pool is tentatively scheduled
Oct. 2, City Manager KolUn
S net hen told city commissioners
Monday night.
Installation of tile and painting
of the pool, the final projects, are
expected to be completed soon
The Oct. 2 inspection by city
and Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD)
officials would mark the official
completion of the pool project
Traffic Light
Repair Sought
Bids will be sought for a
controller for the traffic signal
light at Mission and Jackson.
City Manager Rollin Snethen
told the city commission Mon-
day night.
The old control mechanism is
worn out and parts are not
available because the
manufacturer has since gone out
of business, he said The device
is 30 to 25 years old, he
estimated
Hills " He also said Soutnern
Hills street’’...planning was
poor...workmanship was
shoddy ..I'm suffering greatly
from streets somebody else put
in.”
Requested Earlier
Annexation of Sapulpa Estates
had been requested earlier in the
year and withdrawn when
commissioners asked for curbed
and guttered streets Harbor
said at the Sept 4 meeting it was
not economically feasible with
such large lots and that sub-
division regulations did not
require it
City Manager Rollin Snethen
said the type street proposed
was relatively low grade but
noted it had been used suc-
cessfully many places where
roadbed preparation was suf-
ficient
You’re going to pay for better
paving one way or another,"
Snethen told the commission,”
either inmaintenance or paying
for it initially "
Hearing Set
In other actions the com-
mission scheduled a public
hearing at its meeting of Oct. 1
on a request from property
owners to vacate a 2-block
segment of Hiawatha street at
what is platted as Elmer street,
south of Taft The segment is not
currently in use as a street
Snethen reported two side-
loader garbage trucks have been
purchased for the sanitation
department, and the city plans
to advertise for bids for parts
for a present truck serving the
downtown area
City attorney I-ester Hen-
derson reported the proposed
flood plain ordinance for
Sapulpa will be presented to the
Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission for public hearing
at its Sept 25 meeting
Water Study
The Saupulpa Municipal
Authority authorized drafting of
a resolution to be submitted to
Congressional delegates
requesting a Corps of Engineers
review of the Heyburn water
supply
Commissioner Rick
Grosshans said such a review
could be authorized by the
publicworks committees of the
U.S House and Senate, but the
initial request would have to
come from a local government
Grosshans had suggested last
month that the city investigate a
feasibility study on raising the
Heyburn dam
Incidentally
Get well wishes to Lucille
Gosney. who is a patient at
Bartlett Memorial
Hospital belated anniversary-
wishes to Gene and Lynda
Jones , do you want a pet’ Roy
Collier has some puppies for
giveaway...they’re part Blue
German Shepherd and 224-0524
is the number to call... Happy
birthday today to Peggy
Clark . John Birkhamer Tara
Conway... Harriet Red
ding Steve Tappan and Zelma
WiHibey it was business as
usual Monday for Louise and
Kay Shibley, who said they did
not get away from home during
their vacation.. Dan Black tells
us his nights are rather short
when he starts work at mid-
night. Ray Schwer reports the
ceremonies honoring C.R
Anthony held Saturday at
Cushing were very im»
pressive.. Pat Holloway and her
art classes are really getting off
to a good start and some en-
thusiastic "painters," having a
good time are Elaine Gann,..
Nancy Shore and Janet Hall.
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