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Sapulpa Daily
SUNDAY 75$—DAILY 350
Monday, January 3, 1994
Vol. 80-No. 96-8 Pages-Copyright © 1994
Thought For Today
John 14:13 — And what-
ever ye shall ask In my
name, that will I do. that
the Father may be glori-
fied In the Son.
Today
Incidentally
Happy birthday today to Stacy
Pettit, 7; and Ty Beck, 22.
Weather
Tonight: Clear. Low in the mid
20s. Northwest wind around 10
mph. Tuesday: Mostly sunny.
High in the lower 50s. Wind
becoming southwesterly around 10
mph.
Shooting
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A
12-year-old girl was shot to death
in the kitchen of her north Tulsa
apartment, possibly by a man play-
ing with a .380-calibcr handgun,
police said.
Donisha Juanita Hawkins, a
seventh-grader, was found dead in
the apartment she shares with her
mother and 15-ycar-old sister.
Police said the man fled the
scene in a station wagon. A neigh-
bor who asked not to be identified
described the suspect as a man in
his 20s who was dating the girl's
sister.
Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
Justice Department inquiry will
prove President Clinton free of
wrongdoing in his links to a failed
Arkansas savings and loan, and
there is no need to appoint an inde-
pendent counsel to investigate the
case, says White House adviser
George Slcphanopoulos.
“He has done nothing wrong
and the investigation will show
that,” Stephanopoulos said
Sunday in response to Republican
demands that Attorney General
Janet Reno appoint a special
counsel.
Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole, R-Kan., said Reno has
“wasted a lot of time dragging her
feet and its time she moved and
appointed an independent
counsel”
Jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — About
2 million jobs will be added to the
U.S. economy in 1994, Labor
Secretary Robert Reich predicted
today.
Reich, appearing on ABC's
"Good Morning America,” said
about 2 million jobs were created in
1993 “and I see nothing on the
horizon to indicate we are not
going to have an additional two
million jobs next year.”
Reich said the bulk of the new
jobs would be service jobs. Most of
these, he said, would be higher-
paid managerial and professional
jobs providing services to business.
The others would be lower-paid
restaurant and hotel positions, he
said.
Inside
Deaths.........................................2
Public Records-........................2
Today In History..............-.....2
Dear Abby3
Lifestyles 3
Sports........................-...............5
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Paramedics render aid
Creek County Ambiance Paramedic David Snelson
keeps both hands free as aid is administered to Larry
Don MofTett, Sapulpa, who was Injured In a one-car
accident New Year’s Day on Oklahoma 66. According
to OHP Trooper Steve White, MofTett’s 1978 AMC
Gremlin was traveling down hill when he lost control
and the auto overturned in a 5-foot ditch. Sapulpa Fire
Department also responded to the accident to free
Moffett who was pinned in the vehicle. Moffett, the
lone occupant, was transported to Hlllcrest Medical
Center with non-crltlcal injuries, Trooper White said.
(Herald Staff Photo by BOB SHERRILL)
City is quiet over the weekend
By BRANDON WATKINS
Herald Staff Writer
New Year’s eve is the traditional
"let’s get drunk and sideswipe a few
cars on the way home” holiday for
drunken revellers all over the nation.
Evidently not in Sapulpa though.
According to Sapulpa Police Sgt.
Rick Rumsey, there was only one
arrest for driving under the influence
over the weekend.
“It was a pretty quiet weekend,” he
said.
Rumsey also said that crime itself
was not necessarily up over the
weekend, adding that the reports
showed the regular variety of criminal
activity as just about every weekend.
He said the Sapulpa police did make
a lot of traffic stops, however, only one
had drinking involved.
“That’s real good,” he said. “Only
one person arrested for DU I.”
This year marked a definite
improvement over years past, Rumsey
said.
What’s the reason for the sudden
trend of sobriety on the highways?
“More people are getting the desig-
nated driver,” Rumsey said. “I think
that’s helped a bunch.”
Of course, with tougher anti-
drinking and driving regulations being
passed and the possibility of being
caught by ever-improving police tech-
nology should make any holiday
particr think twice before getting
behind the wheel of a car.
The SPD has recently purchased an
Intoxylizer to test for sobriety and will
help increase the effectiveness of the
department for catching drunk drivers.
The slate of the art machine
measures breath alcohol concentration
and helps the officers keep the streets
safe.
Hominy police still on the alert
HOMINY, Okla. (AP) — Investiga-
tors from the state fire marshal's office
were back on the scene today as they
try to find out what started a fire that
burned a half-block of downtown
Hominy early Saturday.
Authorities strongly suspect some-
one set fires that destroyed four build-
ings downtown and a vacant house
across town early Saturday, police
Chief Joe Lucas said.
The fires were reported shortly
before 6 a.m. The downtown blaze
burned a vacant building, a shoe store,
a discount store and a drug store.
Officers guarded the stores Satur-
day night and Sunday to protect any
merchandise left unbumed, but there
had been no problems With thieves, the
chief said.
“We are having extra patrol and
extra watch to make sure we — hope-
fully — do not have any more fires,”
Lucas said.
Officers also were there to keep
sightseers from injury from the embers
and tottering walls, he said.
No dollar estimate has been set on
the fire damage in the town of about
2,300.
The man, who carried a butcher
knife and a bow and arrows, told
authorities he had been hunting in
woods near the house, Lucas said.
SHS band
wins class
By JOSH TROUTMAN
Herald Staff Writer
If you woke up early enough on
New Year’s Day to catch the Sapulpa
High School Big Blue Marching Band
in the Fiesta Bowl Parade, you were
looking at a band in a class by itself.
The 232 band members watched the
Fiesta Bowl after winning its competi-
tive division in the parade on New
Year’s Eve. The parade was
broadcast-delayed.
The competition was broken down
into two classes — high schools with
1,600 students or more were in Class
A, while those with less were in Class
B. Thus, Sapulpa was in the B
division.
Although Sapulpa was the smallest
school in the competition, it had the
fourth largest band, according to band
director Dean Coalc.
Coalc said it was a second consecu-
tive win for the band who last went to
the Fiesta Bowl in 1990 and took top
honors.
He also said it was the second time
since 1990 that two Oklahoma schools
won both the divisions. Union High
School won the Class A.
“This was the smoothest trip I’ve
ever taken with a group. Our students
represented the school and the
community in a terrific way,” Deane
said.
“I’d like to thank all the people in
Sapulpa for their support financially
and encouragement,” he said. “The
students had a wonderful time.”
Not only did the students compete,
but they took time out for sightseeing
as well, with a visit to the Grand
Canyon.
“The day we went to the Grand
Canyon was beautiful. In fact, it was
beautiful every day,” Coale said. “The
only rain we saw was when we got
back to Sapulpa.”
Coalc said the buses pulled into
Sapulpa at about 7 p.m. Sunday night.
The Big Blue's competition came
from schools in Utah, California,
Virginia, Illinois, New York,
Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Colorado.
Coale said the band would not
return next year to defend its title.
“We don’t lake a trip every year. I
try to make it so every student gets to
go on a trip once during their high
school days," he said.
The Fiesta Bowl trip was the culmi-
nation of hard work by the band
members. They played several
fundraisers in Sapulpa and received
aid from several organizations to pay
for the trip.
The trip cost each member $400.
Joint meeting to
end controversy?
By BRANDON WATKINS
Herald Staff Writer
Several county boards will be meet-
ing Tuesday night to discuss the
contract of the Creek County Fair-
ground manager and the fairground
property.
The meeting, which will be held in
the Creek County Courthouse at 7
p.m., was called for by the Creek
County Board of Commissioners and
will involve the Creek County Free
Fair Board and the Creek County
Excise Board.
The fairground manager, Dave
Ellingson, has been involved in some
county controversy for several
months. In August, he was criticized
by a commissioner and an excise
board member for selling horse trailers
from the fairgrounds.
The practice was ruled legal, but
that did not stop opposition to it since
commissioner Dana Hudgins and
excise board member Bud Goodroad
said the retail sale of the trailers looked
like impropriety and thus should stop.
Once that controversy died down,
Ellingson found himself embroiled in
yet another. Ellingson has refused
payment from the county, which pays
him $591 a month for 30 hours of work
a week. Ellingson is also a fireman on
the Tulsa Fire Department.
Under the terms of Ellingson’s
contract, he also gets a free pad for his
trailer, use of the fairgrounds and utili-
ties paid for by the county.
The county changed the method of
his payment after an audit done on the
fairgrounds said to. Instead of being
paid monthly, with taxes taken out of
the check, the fair board was told to
fill out purchase orders for Ellingson’s
check, which would not withhold
taxes.
Ellingson has refused this method
of payment because he feels it would
permanently label him as a contract
employee.
If he is permanently labeled as a
contract employee, he would lose the
possibility of getting pension benefits
from the county, which he has recently
asked for again.
Ellingson has asked for the benefits
in the past and has been refused them.
It has been the position of the county
that he is a contract employee and thus
not entitled to the benefits.
The request by Ellingson raised the
rancor of commissioner Darrel
Newman, who said at a previous meet-
ing that he wanted Ellingson off the
fairgrounds. Newman said Ellingson
is only asking for the benefits out of
retaliation against Hudgins' and
Goodroad's criticism.
Creek County Free Fair Board Pres-
ident Ronny Wells and Ellingson
denied this allegation. They say he
only wants to know whether or not
Ellingson is a county employee or a
contract employee.
At the last commission meeting that
this issue was discussed, Hudgins said
that explanation did not hold water
since the question had been raised in
the past and answered.
In 1988, Bruce Schultz with the
district attorney’s office gave the opin-
ion that Ellingson was a contract
employee and not a county employee.
The commission may terminate
Ellingson's contract, something
Newman wanted to do at the last meet-
ing, and possibly work out a new one.
Front AtoZ in 1993: Sapulpa9s year in review
expand, add new jobs and buy electri-
cal equipment.
July 10: An early-moming shooting
leaves one man dead, while a Tulsa
man allegedly wounds three people in
a knife fight Friday in separate inci-
dents in Sapulpa.
Jeb Stuart Pippin was killed when
he went to the home of his ex-wife
Jeanetta Jo Moxley, forced himself
inside and was shot by Donald Ray
Harris Jr.
J.L Gann was apparently looking
for someone who had once lived in a
house in the 100 block of east Mill
when he got into an altercation and
stabbed Paul Wayne Clark, Hairy
Crockett and Angela Clark.
July 12: Sapulpan Lea Hughes is
reappointed to a second team on the
Oklahoma Rural Water Association’s
board of directors.
July 13: The Summer Arts Explore
'93, sponsored by the Oklahoma State
Arts Council and Sapulpa Arts, kicks
off at Jefferson Elementary with more
students enrolled than ever before,
July 14: Several local organiza-
tions, including Barbara's Restaurant
and Bios, begin relief drives to help
those fat desperate need around the
flooded areas of the Mississippi Rivsr.
July 16: The Oklahoma Supreme
Court turns down the city's request to
reconsider a ruling which prohibits the
city from purchasing Sapulpa Rural
Water Company, bringing to a close
the legal wrangling between the two
entities.
Tulsan J.L. Gann is charged in
Creek County District Court with
three counts of assault and battery with
intent to kill in connection with the
stabbing of three people.
Sapulpan Dennis Ray Hankins is
sentenced to 50 years in prison after he
wu found guilty by a county judge on
10 counts of lewd molestation and two
counts of sodomy.
July 17: Gov. David Walters visits
Frankoma Pottery during the Gover-
nor’s annual “See Oklahoma. Fuat”
media tour. During a series of presen-
tations, Wallen declared the day offi-
cially u Frankoma Pottery Day in
Oklahoma.
July 19: Although city officials say
the probe into the disappearance of
money and evidence from the Sapulpa
Police Department proparty room is
continuing, no headway has bean
made in the investigation in recent
weeks, according to City Manager
Mark Roach.
July 20: Sapulpa city oommission-
en voted 8-1 to implement a partially
self-funded insurance plan which
insurance program manager B.
Michael Knox says will save the city
$146,000 a year.
July 21: District Attorney Lantz
McClain issues a statement saying
Donald Ray Harris Jr. will not face
charges after he shot Jeb Stuart Pippen
in self defense. Pippen died from the
gunshots en route to a hospital. Harris
shot Pippen after he forced himself
inside the residence of Harris and
Jeanetta Jo Moxley.
July 22: Sapulpa Main Street’s
board of directors give unanimous
approval to a one-year contract
between the city and the program to
continue its downtown revitalization
program.
July 26: Sapulpan Richard Gibbs
dies several hours after he is beaten by
a motorist with a two-by-four during
an argument on the shoulder of U.S.
Highway 75, police say.
July 27: Sapulpa Fire Department
battles a fire of undetermined origin
which causes at least $5,000 damage
to a unit at the Cherry Hills Apartment
complex.
July 28: Tulsa Mayor Susan Savage
visits Sapulpa to speak to the Rotary
Chib.
July 29: Sapulpa police sources
name Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Trooper Jack McCoy and his wife,
Sapulpa Police Officer Barbara
McCoy in allegations that the two
were involved in the physical abuse of
a suspect in police custody.
July 30: Tony Rodriguez, Sapulpa
Main Street Program board president,
announces his resignation as president
and from the board of directors.
August
Aug. 1: Police officials still refuse
to confirm whether a Sapulpa police
officer has been suspended pending an
internal investigation of allegations of
physical abuse.
Aug. 2: Creek County residents
near the intersection of 71 st Street and
97th West Avenue are forced to flee
their homes after a butane pipeline
ruptures, sending a plume of gas up to
12 feet high.
Aug. 3: Sapulpa city commissioners
vote 5-1 to approve a contract between
the city and Sapulpa Main Street
The KeUyvilk Strategic Planning
Committee holda fas first meeting.
Aug. 4: Residents forced to evacu-
ate return home after the raptured
butane line is secured.
Aug. 5: Sapulpa Homey W.C
“Bill" Sallen says he plans to fight the
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$57,000 sanctions imposed upon him
and former associate Mack M. Braly
by a Tulsa judge.
Aug. 8: The Sapulpa Daily Herald
learns that the Henry Vogt Machine
Company plans to lay off about 100 of
its 200 employees, according to a noti-
fication letter sent to its employees.
Longtime Sapulpa Public Schools
Board of Education member Dale
Stone announces he plans to resign
from his position on the board.
Aug. 10: The Creek County Board
of Commissioners approves a contract
by a 2-1 vote that would allow fair-
grounds manager Dave Ellingson to
continue selling horse trailers from the
fairgrounds.
Aug. 11: The Henry Vogt Machine
Company issues a formal statement to
explain the 100-person layoff. General
manager Kenneth C. Parks said no
date was set for when the employees
might return to work.
Aug. 12: U.S. Rep. Mike Synar, D-
Okla., visits Sapulpa to discuss Plun-
der* Bill Clinton's health care reforms
with voters.
Greek County ftue Fair Board
secretary Don Moss is still not in
compliance with several citations
issued (y the Sms Auditor end
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