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Sapulpa Daily
SUNDAY 750—DAILY 350
Vol. 77—No. 302—8 Pages
Copyright © 1992, Park Newspapers of Sapulpa, Inc.
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Tuesday
September 1, 1992
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Options outlined
INCOG legal affairs coordinator Ann Domin, and County Board of Commissioners about alternatives to
Raymond E. Sparks, E-911 sales manager Southwest- a county-wide E-911 system. (Herald Staff Photo by
em Bell, give a presentation Monday to the Creek PATSY J. COWAN)
Today
Incidentally
Happy birthday today to Shan-
nan MeBenberger ... Stephanie
Faulkner's father wants to wish
her a happy belated 13th birthday...
Happy belated birthday wishes also
to Kathy Cooper, celebrating on
the 30th ... Animals avsilable today
for giveaway include five half-
Rottweiler/half Doberman pins-
cher, call 321-3913.
Weather
Today: Mostly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. High in the mid
80s. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a 40
percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Low around 70.
South wind 10 to 13 mph. Wednes-
day: Partly cloudy with a SO
percent chance of thunderstorms.
High in the lower 90s. South wind
10 to 20 mph becoming southwest
during die afternoon.
New deadlines
Because of the Labor Day holi-
day on Monday, Sept. 7, the adver-
tising deadline for Tuesday adver-
tising has been changed to this
ftiday, Sept. 4.
Monday’s obituary deadline has
been changed as well. All obits to
he included in Monday's paper
must be in by 8:30 a.m.
bluing wills
September 1 is the effective date
of die new Oklahoma Advance
Directive. A Living Will prepared
tinder the old Old Death Act
remains effective, with the addi-
tional protection that it will no
longer matter when you prepared it
To use the new directive a
TiWyer is not needed, no notary is
inquired, witnesses may be anyone
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Benefit from or help manage
csttte.
Tt enables one to specily un
tyfahes for care not only when in a
terminal condition but also if in a
ddraistently unconscious state with
lo hope of recovery.
Work day
The work day to set up far the
Creek County Pair will be 9 a.m.
September 14. This is a change of
date. The Ckeek County Fair will be
held September 17-20.
‘ may get numbers and
tags beginning Sept. 8.
are taken from noon to 7
on Sept. 17. Judging will
at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18. Exhi-
will be released at 4 p.m. on
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Japanese visitor
Yukiyo Kurotanl, 23, Kyoto, Japan, is pictured In a “yukata” which Is
Japanese for bathrobe, standing beside 10-year pen pal Rae Parker, 24,
Sapulpa. Kurotanl will be here until Friday. (Herald Staff Photo by
PATSY J. COWAN)
Commission okays
rezoning proposal
By PATSY J. COWAN
Herald Staff Writer
A zoning request was approved
from A-l to R-l for a parcel of land in
the Cimarron Shores addition near
Mannford after it brought two
concerned residents to the Creek
County Board of Commissioners
meeting Monday.
Manuel Parker, who lives on land
owned by Jim Brawdy wants to have a
10-acre tract of land split but does not
meet the ordinance requirements of
access to a public road.
“Commissioners don’t do lot
splits,” said commissioner Darrel
Newman.
David Simmons, county planner,
said the planning commission voted
5-3 to deny the lot split due to the publ-
ic road issue.
“I can’t get a loan on that property,”
Parker said.
“What you have is either a public
dedicated easement or a private road,”
said commissioner Dana Hudgins.
"I can’t stand it to be any looser.
Developers or realtors promises
potential property buyers the county
would maintain it That’s absolutely a
lie,” Hudgins said.
Another solution would bring the
road up to standards and dedicate it to
the county, Hudgins said.
“I can’t afford to do that," Parker
said.
Commissioner Hudgins said it
would take $100,000 per mile to bring
it up to county specifications.
A light was shed on the fact that the
U.S. Wildlife and Game Refuge help
maintain the road.
Simmons said this fact may help
with Brawdy’s request for a lot split in
the next planning commission
meeting.
The bids for asphalt overlay went to
Cummins Construction for $26,450
for the South 91st Street near county
line and $13,750 for the courthouse
parking lot.
The closest bid price was for APAC
for $20,350 for the parking lot and
$33,925 for the 91st Street
project. A bid was awarded to Fred
Jones Ford to $14,274 per vehicle for
four 1992 sedans for the sheriffs
office.
The state bid was not available this
year and the only other bidder was Ed
Chalmers Chevrolet for $17,181 per
vehicle.
Approval went to the county asses-
sor to out right purchase computer
equipment for $42,033.
The nutrition program received
approvals on the 1993 revised budget
and approval for reimbursement for
USDA cash in lieu of commodities.
Resolution 92-65 was approved to
assign 50 percent/50 percent for the
new fiscal year bridge allocation funds
for bridge letting.
The commissioners also discussed
upcoming construction on the Collins
Building.
Newman said Ed Strong, a state
engineer, would conduct the structural
and sound testing on the building at a
state contract price per hour.
Man questioned in alleged rape
A Creek County man turned himself
in to authorities Monday amid allega-
tions of rape and sodomy, jail records
indicate.
Creek County Sheriff Doug Nichols
said deputies wees interviewing a man
this morning far connection with the
alkigalions
Nichols said the 16-year-old alleged
victim was brought in Friday by her
father, who filed the report
The incident occurred several days
ago in the Mounds area, according to
Nichols.
Further details on the case were
unavailable, but Nichols said die alle-
gations appear to involve statutory
rather than forcible rape.
County-wide 911
system proposed
By PATSY J. COWAN
Herald Staff Writer
District Two Commissioner Darrel
Newman was appointed to be the
Creek County representative on a sub-
committee that will look into all
aspects of having a county-wide
Enhanced-911 system and to have a
question ready to be put on the ballot
by Sept. 17.
The board is trying to consider
whether all county residents want the
system and if there would be funds to
install the county-wide system.
It would not affect the E-911 system
that is already in place.
Two alternatives were presented to
the commissioners Monday that
outlines the costs involved implement-
ing a county-wide system.
The first alternatives would allow
the expansion of the existing Tulsa
regional E-911 system utilizing Sapul-
pa as the Public Safety Answering
Point with all emergency calls routed
to Sapulpa.
The second alternative presented
would be to maintain the Tulsa region-
al system plus adding a PS AP in Bris-
tow to take all Creek County calls not
currently routed through Sapulpa.
At fust glance, the second alterna-
tive to the installation costs is
considerably higher than the first alter-
native — $98,663 compared to
$16,552.
Ann Domin, legal affairs coordina-
tor for Indian Nations Council of
Governments, said the second alterna-
tive estimate is much higher because
of the equipment needed to install the
new PSAP.
“There aren’t just two alternatives,”
Domin said.
“The county may need to look at
other options. There are some other
ways that may be less expensive,”
Domin said.
“I think what needs to happen is to
get really active in planning on how
the system is going to work,” Domin
told the board.
“Put together some planning team
to resolve all the problems. It’s a lot of
coordination work,” Domin said.
“We have to find out if everybody
out there wants the service and will be
willing to pay for it,” said commis-
sioner Dana Hudgins.
Hudgins said the figures appear to
be misleading because the first alter-
native estimate does not include the
mileage rates that are involved.
Hudgins said the phone companies
assess a milage charge on private
service lines and that it appears on all
telephone bills.
Another concern was with the 3
percent service charge ratepayers are
assessed would not cover the system’s
monthly costs.
The remedy would be to increase
the service charge to 5 percent per
resident.
“From the estimate numbers, if the
county collects the 5 percent fee, then
the county will be able to afford it. At 3
percent, it would be questionable,”
Domin said.
“And this does not resolve the
addressing,” Domin said.
“AH of this assumes that the public
wants it,” Domin said.
“We won’t known until the elec-
tion,” Domin said.
“I believe in 911.1 believe it saves
lives and I would like to see it statew-
ide,” Domin said.
Japanese pen-pal visits
By PATSY J. COWAN
Herald Staff Writer
After 10 years of writing each other,
Rae Parker, 24, Sapulpa, has a Japan-
ese pen-pal visiting with her family
until Friday.
Yukiyo Kurotani, 23, and Parker
began writing when members of Park-
er's ninth-grade history class were
given pen-pal assignments. Parker
was assigned to Kurotani.
Parker and Kurotani said the reason
each of them kept in touch is that they
npver lost interest in each other.
“I just kept writing different things.
I tried to keep her interested,” Parker
said.
“I told her about a few guys,” Parker
said.
“I can’t believe my letters came to
this home for 10 years,” Kurotani said.
*T had five other pen pals, but only Rae
kept writing,” Kurotani said.
When Kurotani arrived at the
airport Sunday, Parker said she was
holding a sign with “Yukiyo” on it
“But when I saw her, I knew it was
her,” Parker said.
Kurotani is from a town called
Kyoto that Kurotani said is the old
Japanese capital. Kyoto is northeast of
Osaka and a two-hour train ride away,
Kurotani said.
Kurotani was lucky in taking a
direct flight from Tokyo to Dallas,
then up to Tulsa. It was a 12-hour trip
in which Kurotani said she read, slept
and talked with the person seated next
to her.
Kurotani, who works for a travel
agency, said this is not her first visit to
the states.
She was in Los Angeles eight years
ago to attend the Olympic games with
a teacher and some friends.
This is the first trip she's made
alone, which Kurotani said has her
parents worried.
Parker, who is on vacation from her
job at Solaray Corp., and her family
have taken well to their visitor.
They plan to take her to Morris
today to visit Parker’s grandmother, a
trip to the Tulsa Zoo, the mall. Swan
Lake and Keystone Lake.
There were many differences Kuro-
tani has observed during her visit
“U.S. houses are bigger. Many,
many trees and green everywhere,”
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Nickles sees tough race
By STEVEN JAMES
Herald Staff Writer
U.S. Sen. Don Nickles told a group
of about 100 supporters Monday even-
ing that the upcoming campaign is
likely to be a lot tougher than many
people think.
The senator spoke at a fundraiser at
the home of Tom and Yvonne Allen
after touring Sheffield Steel in Sand
Springs and Bartlett Memorial Medi-
cal Center in Sapulpa.
Nickles pledged to ran a positive,
issue-oriented campaign against
Democratic challenger Steve Lewis
and “do everything it takes to win
honestly and legitimately.”
Nickles agreed to debate Lewis,
former speaker of the state House, but
declined to debate presidential candi-
date Honest Jim Boren of Tahlequah,
who has humorously accused Nickles
of stealing his ideas.
Boren ran an advertisement in the
Sapulpa Herald on Monday, challeng-
ing Nicklea to • debate.
“I’d lose,” Nickles said of the Boren
challenge.
Boren accused Nickles of plagiar-
ism when the senator said the Demo-
cratic party “has what it takes to take
what you’ve got” at last month’s GOP
convention.
The phrase is a key plank of Boren’s
tongue-in-cheek candidacy for presi-
dent on the Apathy Party ticket.
The senator said 1992 is a rough
year for any incumbent, from any
party, to run for re-election.
“I was considering resigning and
running as a challenger,” Nickles
joked.
Nickles said the anti-incumbent
atmosphere permeating the political
scene this year promises to put “a lot of
new faces in Washington,” which
could bring about the change that
many voters say they want.
The same attitude, however, prom-
ises to make this one of the toughest
campaigns Nickles has faced since he
wu first elected to the Senate in 1980.
“We’re not taking anything for
granted, and I hope you’re not either,”
Nickles said “My attitude is that we’re
a point behind and a vote short.
’This is the type of year where you
can’t take anything for‘granted, and
polls don't mean that much.”
The Ponca City Republican even
wondered aloud whether President
Bush would be re-elected. “I don’t
know if he will or not,” he said.
Nickles received some positive
feedback on his recent slate of televi-
sion commercials and said more of the
same is on the way.
The commercials lack the cutthroat
style seen in other races, particularly in
the Second District contest between
Rep. Mike Synar and Drew
Edmondson
“We’re trying to run a very positive
campaign and not even mention
anybody by name,” he said. “It’s not
our intention to knock down or deride
anybody else.”
Embracing the Democrats
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