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Weekend
IXIei/vs Wrap
Claremore woman killed
By I'he Associated Press ,
| Authorities say a car veered left of the center line on U.S. Highway 270 in |
Pittsburg County Friday evening hitting one of three motorcycles in the lane. i
The driver of the motorcycle, F,dward O. Philpot, 49, of McAlester was pro-
nounced dead at McAlester Regional Hospital following the accident, reported
the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
f , . The patrol said that when the car first veered over the ccn-
ter linc’ >• forced one motorcyclist to take evasive action
Hut that motorcycle ultimately overturned. The driver of
, that motorcycle, Robert Long, 51, of McAlester was listed
in stable condition at McAlester Regional.
The patrol said the car, driven by Jeffery Craft. 36, of Pittsburg, then hit
Philpot’s motorcycle. .
After hitting that motorcycle, the patrol said. Craft's car continued traveling
left of the center line, forcing a third motorcyclist to take evasive action, fhat
motorcycle also overturned.
The driver, Billy D. Howell, 29, of McAlester, refused treatment for minor
arm injuries at the scene.
Craft was treated at the hospital and released.
A Grove man was killed in another accident Friday when the motorcycle he
I was driving was hit by a pickup truck.
The patrol said Caral Dean Wilson of Jay was trying to pass a slower moving
vehicle on U.S. Highway 59 in Delaware County, when a motorcycle dnven by
Toney Ix‘c Whatkins pulled in front of Wilson's pickup.
Wilson's pickup truck hit Whatkins motorcycle. Whatkins died of massive
IPJ A 45-year-old Claremore woman was killed earlier in the day when she was i . ,
hit by a pickup truck while walking in traffic on Oklahoma 20 in Rogers Coun- MEXICO S CO<iSl
" ^patroKaid Carol Fdith Roberts died at the scene of the 5:35 a.m. accident
six miles west of Claremore.
j Surgeon arrested on sex crimes
NASHVILLE-.. fenn.(AP)—A surgeon has been arrested on charges he raped
one girl and molested three others at the hospital where he practiced for three
None of the girls was a patient of Dr. Craig Nunn, 34,
~ . # who left Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Nnrinn April The alleged attacks happened last winter.
■ "VIIIVI ■ Nunn was indicted on one count of child rape and
eight counts of aggravated sexual battery. The charges
involved three 12-year-old girls and one 10-year-old girl.
I lospital chief executive Marsha Casey said Nunn allegedly entered one girl s
room and performed what amounted to a pelvic examination,
"It definitely was a physician who should not have been in the childrens
rooms.” Cascv said. "Thai’s what makes this so hard, for someone to violate your
Vanderbilt launched its own investigation after one of the girls told a nurse she
didn't think the touching was proper. The hospital beefed up security and calle
in police after other girls reported similar incidents.
Nunn did not return phone calls seeking comment. His lawyer, David Raybin,
said he could not comment on the case until he talked with his client. Raybin said
Nunn is scheduled for arraignment Aug. 12. .. „ .. MilIin
"Dr. Nunn is a highly respected trauma surgeon, Raybin said. He said Nunn
resigned, but Casey said his employment was "terminated."
Nunn was released Friday after posting a $500,000 bond.
Tidal wave hits Papua New Guinea
SYDNEY. Australia (AP) - A 23-foot-high tidal wave slammed into north-
west Papua New Guinea today, killing at least 70 people and obliterating entire
'11 m- wave hit the coast near the town of Aitapc just after the area was rattled
I bv a magnitude 7 earthquake, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. sa\ •
^ The National Disaster Center said late tonight that hun-
I _ _ _ || Jreds of people were still missing and thousands were
LI oriel wi,h°ut ,ihhi andshdtcr in,hc s°uthwcst pacific isiand
group.
While authorities have put the death toll at 70, there
I were unconfirmed reports that dozens more may have
been killed by the wall of water, technically called a tsunami because it was
UU1''WeL-xpectdthat4Xk»ut 3,(KM) people have been made homeless and there has
been an estimate of about 3(K) people dead or missing," Austin Crapp, a relief
I organizer, told the Australian broadcaster.
He said most of the dead were children who drowned.
Disaster authorities said the tsunami caused the greatest damage in four vil-
lages'- Sissano, Warapu, Arop and Maid. The area, in West Sepik province is
dotted with small villages consisting of homes that are built on beaches and made
Warapu, Ihere^no house standing; it's a village of 1.800 people," Crapp
said. "Arop, again, is 1.800 to 2.000 people; there's nothing standing there.
I "They (the two villages) are both clean sand. It's complete devastation.
A helicopter pilot who landed in Aitape today reported seeing bodies floating
among the debris in the lagoon, he said.
Papua New Guinea provincial disaster coordinator Peter Tavun said survivors
were in desperate need of food and shelter. A helicopter was picking up injured
people and taking them to a mission hospital at Aitapc. where doctors had been
flown in to treat them. Most of the injured had cuts and fractures.
Australia said today it will provide transport for relief supplies and a mobile
h°SRob Parc*'a^iBftiesMna^who lives near Aitapc, said some villagers who fled
h had
ended," Parer told Australian radio.
Because of the difficulty of establishing communication links with the region,
the full extent of the disaster was unlikely to become clear for some time.
The tsunami consisted of three waves that hit the shore in a matter of minutes.
But because they came at night, there was more panic than there might otherwise
hdV"Inthcdark!people were screaming, yelling and looking for people," he said.
The last tsunami in the area was in 1930 when a magnitude 6.5 earthquake
struck the Admiralty Islands, seismologists said___
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Starr: Guards may have observed crimes
. , , Mike Lcibig, who represents two of the subpoenaecf
WASHINGTON (AP) - With a hard-fought vic-
tory in hand. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
asserts that Secret Service personnel he is question-
ing before the grand jury "may have observed evi-
dence of possible crimes" at the White House.
Prosecutors questioned three officers Friday,
shortly after Chief Justice William Rehnquist
refused to extend a temporary reprieve the Secret
Service received the previous day from the U.S.
Court of Appeals.
The decision ended bitter legal wrangling over
whether President Clinton's protectors had the right
to stay silent rather than tell a grand jury what they
had seen and heard.
According to Starr, Secret Service employees
"have evidence relevant" to the perjury and obstruc-
tion-of-justice investigation focusing on C linton and
former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
"Specifically, the OIC (Office of Independent
Counsel) is in possession of information that Secret
Service personnel may have observed evidence of
possible crimes while stationed in and around the
White House complex,” Starr wrote in a brief to the
Supreme Court on Friday. He did not elaborate.
Starr made the same assertion in a filing June 2
that asked the high court for an expedited ruling in
the case, bypassing the appeals court. The justiecs
Tropical storm
Celia building
steam off
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico
issued a tropical storm warning for
southern Baja California Friday night
as Tropical Storm Celia picked up
strength and swirled toward the area.
Forecasters expected tropical
storm force winds for southern Baja
California, the peninsula that juts
south from California, by Saturday,
the U.S. Hurricane Center reported
from Miami.
Late Friday night, the center of
Celia was located 225 miles south-
southeast of Cabo San Lucas, a beach
and fishing resort popular among
Americans on the tip of Baja Califor-
nia.
The storm was moving northwest
at about 16 mph, a motion that was
expected to continue. That would put
Celia’s center about 100 miles from
the tip of the peninsula on Saturday.
Maximum sustained winds were
near 60 mph. A tropical storm
becomes a hurricane when sustained
winds exceed 73 mph, and forecast-
ers expected Celia to strengthen.
Mexico issued tropical storm
warnings for the southern portion of
Baja California.
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"In my view, the (administration) has not demon- not talk about the president. He believes
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poenas ... would cause irreparable harm," Rehnquist
wrote.
The chief justice left open the possibility the
Supreme Court might review the broader legal issue
this fall. Nonetheless, he made presidential body-
guards reluctant grand jury witnesses, forced for the
first time ever to answer questions about the man
they protect.
Starr asserted his new power in the boldest fash-
ion, promptly calling the witnesses before a grand
jury that was not even the one assigned to the
Lewinsky investigation. That panel did not meet Fri-
day.
Two current Secret Service uniformed officers
and one recently retired officer, Robert Ferguson,
testified.
:SUJCni IN Llllllltu lvj mat
Kotclly said Cockcll initially would not answer
questions involving national security or conversa-
tions he overheard between Clinton and his lawyers.
It those questions arc raised, they will be object-
ed to and he will decline to answer the questions
until the court orders otherwise," Kotelly said.
While it was of little solace to the administration,
Rehnquist signaled that the full Supreme Court
might take up the underlying legal issue when it
returns to work this fall. .•
I shall assume, without deciding, that four mem*
bers of this court" will vote to hear the case, he said*
Presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey, himselt
engaged in a battle over his testimony that coulit
eventually reach the Supreme Court, said of th^
Secret Service employees and their legal situation: -
r'\ _ .....A c.-.Arhh, haop a nninion and
. Secret Service employees anu men iefta.
Agent Larry Cockell, the chief of the presidential Clinton said Friday," I have a legal opinion andT
securitv detail was among the subpoenaed witness- have a personal opinion, but thi
^ not VueMionci ST lawyer. John Kotelly. said completely inappropriate for me to be involved in
Cockell has not been told when to return. Attorney this.
Royal
selection
Mrs Oklahoma, Susan
Jackson, a Liberty Ele-
mentary school
teacher, recently made
at • her pick at the Sapulpa
Main Street Route 66
Blowout. She chose a
yellow and white 1973
Volkswagon owned by
Bob Reed.
Courtesy photo
When Adolf Hitler became the chan
cellor of Germany in 1933, there were
22 people with the last name Hitler
listed in the New York City telephone
directory By 1945 there was not even
one _
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