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Sapulpa
SUNDAY 75*—DAILY 35*
Sunday, March 21, 1993
Vol. 78-No. 161-26 Pages-Copyright © 1993
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Thought For Today
Romans 12:21 — Be not
overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good.
A Park Newspaper—Member qf Associated Press
Sapulpa. Ole la. 74066- 224-5185
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Incidentally
Happy Birthday to Jerry
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Vera Rogers... Happy anniversary
Ronald and Kim Mauch, Bill and
Helen Mauch ...for giveaway,
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cocker puppies 224-8449.
Weather
Partly cloudy with patchy fog
developing late. Low in the lower
40s. Light east wind. Partly sunny.
High in the mid 60s. Southeast
wind 10 to 15 mph.
Bankrupt
OKLAHOMA CITY(AP) — A
Sac and Fox tribal industry that
lost a multi-million dollar contract
to produce chemical warfare suits
for the Army has filed a bankrupt-
cy petition. Sac and Fox Industries
Ltd. said in its Chapter 7 petition
filed Thursday in federal bank-
ruptcy court in Oklahoma City
that it had no income and at least
$1 million in debts.
Sac and Fox Industries was
awarded a $30 million contract
from the Defense Department in
1989 to make 491,000 chemical
warfare suits for the military. It
was the largest garment contract
awared by the Defense Depart-
ment to an Indian-owned business
at the time, the company said.
Killerfs wife
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — Jo
Beth Smith, whose friends raised
$400 for her defense and gave her
a tray of brownies after she was
released from jail on $10,000
bond, says her husband is not a
cop killer.
After her release Friday, Mrs.
Smith told a group of about 50
supporters that her husband did
not kill anybody.
"I can’t tell you what you
people are doing for us. You are
literally saving our lives,” she
told her friends at a rally in
Sturgis.
Revenue
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Inclement weather in February is
being blamed for a decrease in
traffic on Oklahoma’s turnpikes
and a subsequent decline in
revenues, officials said.
Chief financial officer Ron
Mason told authority members
Friday that traffic on the base
system was down 4 percent, while
travel on Kansas toll roads was off
1 by 3.7 percent.
“At the same time, we also saw
the percentage of PikePass utiliza-
tion increase from 26.8 percent in
1992 to 36 percent in 1993, and
that means a larger percentage of
our patrons are paying their tolls at
discounted rates,” Mason said.
Accident
CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) —
Grady County prosecutors have
charged a Chickasha teen-ager
with manslaughter in the traffic,
death of an Anadarko teacher. ’
James Hugar, 18, was driving a
pickup truck that went left of
center on Oklahoma Highway 62
and collided with a car Friday, the
Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Theresa A. Palmer, 43, of
Verden was killed, while her
12-year-old son and three passen-
gers in the pickup wpre critically
injured, authorities said.
Trial
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A
federal jury has refused prosecu-
tors’ request for the death penalty
for one of four men convicted in a
murder conspiracy linked to $2
million in stolen cocaine.
The U.S. District Court jury
deliberated about four hours
Friday over the fate of Ramon
Medina Molina, 40, of Rialto,
Calif.
Molina had faced a possible
death sentence in the case. Jurors
rejected the death sentence for a
co-defendant earlier this week and
will decide next week whether to
recommend death for a third man.
Prosecutors are not seeking the
death penalty for a fourth defen-
dant in the case.
Inside
House fire
A house fire at 1220 E. Bryan on Saturday gutted a craft shop but spared the home of Clarence and Geneva Brooner. (Herald Start Photo
by CAROLINE BAKER.)
Boren speech gives hope
By ART COX
Managing Editor
TAHLEQUAH — U.S. Sen. David
Boren is rarely one to mince words,
and he didn’t here Friday night when
he gave the keynote address at the
Tahlcquah Chamber of Commerce
banquet.
Boren, Oklahoma’s senior senator,
said the U.S. is in trouble — financial-
ly, in education and generally in its
world position.
All this in one of the most unique
periods in history, Boren said.
Americans realize the problems,
Boren said, and insist on something
being done about it. This is not the
time, Boren said, for Congress to
ignore problems.
Boren spoke emotionally about his
country, but also offered facts and
figures to buttress his arguments. For
instance, the national debt. Boren said
12 years ago, the national debt was $1
trillion. It is now $4 trillion, half of the
gross national product.
If allowed to continue growing,
within another eight years, it will be
more than the gross national product
— the sum of all goods and services
produced by this country — and 30
percent of taxes raised will go to pay
its debt service.
To compound that problem, wages
have also gone down. In the last 10
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House fire
burns shop
By CAROLINE BAKER
Herald Staff Writer
A fire Saturday morning caused exten-
sive damage to a home craft shop at
1220 E. Bryan but spared the home
itself.
Assistant Chief Jackie Camer said
he did not know the cause of the blaze
but did know where it started.
“There was significant damage to
the contents but not a lot of structural
damagc,”he said.
The house is owned by Clarence
and Geneva Brooner. He had a home
craft shop in the workshop-garage area
that firemen said had a lot of lumber
and power tools that were destroyed.
“There was tons of stuff in there,”
Camer said.
He said the firemen had trouble
walking around in the room to fight the
fire.
Geneva Brooner said her husband
was delivering a bunny he made to a
girl for Easter when she noticed the
lights blinking. She went to the shop
and saw the smoke, then “heard it hit
the box” when she went inside to call
the fire department.
IMPACT
will be back
Mike Bczanson, President of
Security National Bank, announced
Friday that the IMPACT card system
will be operating as of sometime
Monday.
“IMPACT personnel have been
working around the clock to allow for
minimal disruption to card holders and
to restore service as soon as possible,"
said Bezanson.
The disruption of service was due to
the largest storm of the century caus-
ing the collapsing of the roof housing
the system in New Jersey.
Bezanson said, “Security National
bank appreciates the customers’ pati-
ence during this difficult time.”
Boren: state was
not on DoD list
By ART COX
Managing Editor
TAHLEQUAH — Despite previous
reports, the three cities in Oklahoma
that voted sales taxes to attract Depart-
ment of Defense finance centers were
not in the top 20, U.S. Sen. David
Boren said after a banquet speech here
Friday night.
Most of the centers were planned
for the northeastern part of the coun-
try, Boren said.
“We learned we were not on the
list,” Boren said. “There were to be
two in Ohio and one in Indiana that I
remember, and others.”
Oklahoma’s senior senator also said
it was “mystifying” why Aspin
suddenly cancelled the defense centers
but that Aspin will consider the
concept again.
“It is mystifying and troubling, in
part, because he threw out the process
after communities like Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma City and Lawton had committed
themselves,” Boren said.
Boren said he didn’t have any idea
why Aspin cancelled the idea, but is
willing to give him the benefit of the
doubt.
Reports in the press last week said
Aspin was behind an effort to attract
such a center to Wisconsin, when he
served as a representative from there.
The idea of defense finance centers
was started in the Bush administration.
In a few weeks, Boren said he and
the Oklahoma Congressional Delega-
tion plan to meet and map strategy on
what to do when Aspin re-considcrs
the finance centers.
“I think he plans to go ahead with
them,” Boren said.
He said he hopes Aspin gives the
states “that really tried” a leg up over
die others.
“I’m hoping he can give us a sort of
‘veterans preference,”’ Boren said.
Three cities in Oklahoma passed
half-ccnt sales tax packages to attract
the finance centers — Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma City and Lawton, which hoped to
attract a smaller center.
Boren in Tahlequah
U.S. Sen. David Boren poses with Wilma Mankiller,
principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and Pam Irons
during a chamber banquet in Tahlequah Friday night.
(Herald Staff Photo by ARI COX)
Cuban trip simple for Joe
Says Cuba is a unique experience
Jot Trinidad, who manages the local Taco Bueno In Sapulpa, recently
went on a trip to Cuba. He says he had a message he wanted to give the
people there. (Herald Staff Photo by ART COX)
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By ART COX
Managing Editor
Ask Joe Trinidad where he was on
Feb. 27 and he’ll have no trouble
recalling it.
Trinidad, an American citizen, was
on a small island in Cuba. He remem-
bers seeing Havana in the distance. He
spent a week there.
Why was he in Cuba and how did he
get there? Thai’s simple too. Joe had a
message from God he wanted to give
the people. And he simply boarded a
plane in Mexico.
No problem. Any trouble Joe Trini-
dad anticipated he could handle. After
all years before, he was in trouble up to
his neck.
That’s when Joe Trinidad — which
is his real name — was a dope pusher
in New York City. He’d been in and
out of jail nearly a dozen times.
He claims he was in the process of
murdering a man when the police
caught up with him.
But he’s changed. For several years
now Trinidad, 35, has been in the
restaurant business. He is an assistant
manager at the local Taco Bueno in
Sapulpa.
Those problems came back to haunt
him only once, when he tried to get a
passport and a visa to Cuba. It wasn’t
difficult, but visa requirements had to
be handled through the Swiss
embassy.
And what happened When he got
there?
He preached. He gave away Bibles.
He spread the holy word. And he gave
the islanders his message.
It was a short and simple message:
have faith in God. And “something”
may happen on Easter Day. Trinidad
feels that is the day that either Castro
will be overturned or relations with the
U.S. will be normalized.
“I am not a wild-eyed cult leader,
but 1 believe this,” Trinidad said.
That sounds a little amazing. But,
Trinidad said, the island people
listened to him and he believes several
may have taken up their faith again.
Trinidad made the trip on faith,
practically. He took only $200 with
him.
“That would have bought me food
and a hotel room for the week,” he
said.
But he didn ’t have to use it. He met a
man on the plane who took him to his
home on the island, where Trinidad.
The man, who Trinidad says is a top
military official, also provided most of
his food.
“The people were very warm to
me,” he said. “But there was some-
times an expression of fear on their
faces. They have been raised to live on
moral values and live lesser on mater-
ial things,” he said.
While in Cuba, Trinidad was allow-
ed to preach on street comers, which
he did. He even preached on a ferry
bound for Havana, his last night there.
There were two other boats, but they
had departed hours before Trinidad
was ready to go. When he went to
board the ferry, people whispered
warnings into his ears:
“They told me the only people who
got on that boat were convicts and
street thugs and I thought, ‘what an
opportunity to preach.’
“It was. I found myself at home. I
used to be a street thug, a convict.”
By the time the trip was over, Trini-
dad had been asked to deliver a
sermon.
“They knew 1 was bringing them the
truth,” he said.
And he wasn’t harmed, cither.
Now, back in the states, Trinidad is
concentrating on his studies at a local
Bible school and works at his restaur-
ant. But his long term goal?
You guessed it — to serve God. But
at a church in Puerto Rico, where his
parents are from.
“But it’s all Ood’s will. If he wants
me there, I’ll be there.”
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