Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 99, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1992 Page: 1 of 8
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Sapulpa Daily
SUNDAY 750—DAILY 350
Vol. 77—No. 99—8 Pages
Copyright © 1991, Park Newspapers of Sapulpa, Inc.
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A Park Newspaper
Weun**day,
January 8, 1992
Sapulpa, Okla. 74066
Today
Incidentally
Former Sapulpan Kent Corn-
wall is serving as 1992 chapter
president of the Founders Chorus, a
chapter of the SPEBSQSA, a
national Barber Shop singing orga-
nization ... Happy birthday to
Kimberly Wall, 1, and Doris L.
Dorn, 57 ... Congratulations to
three Show, Inc., staff members are
attending Tulsa Junior College and
made the Honor Roll, they are
Sharon Bowen, Nancy Ross and
Sharel Smith.
Inside i *
Bridge.........................................2 I '-
Dear Abby.................................2 I &
Deaths.........................................2 i
Public Records..........................2 1
Today in History.....................2 ,
Lifestyles....................................3 »
Sports.........................................4
Television...................................6
Classifieds........................... 7 |
Health care need
told by forum
Weather
Today: Partly sunny with a high
in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5
to 15 mph becoming northwest 10
to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with a low
around 30. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph. Thursday: Mostly sunny
with a high in the mid 40s. North
winds 5 to 15 mph.
Coming Up
Chamber of Commerce banquet,
..30 p.m. Thursday, Sapulpa High
School cafeteria ... Jeremiah
People at First Baptist Church,
Friday, 7 p.m., in “Stop The
Presses.”
Lifestyles
Greek Beef Salad ... Thrifty
baking tips ... Sec page 3.
Sports
Sapulpa 9th grade basketball
teams victorious ... See page 4.
Noteworthy
Correspondent
The Herald is looking for corres-
pondents to report on activities in
surrounding communities, includ-
ing Kiefer, Mounds, Kellyville,
Bristow, and Glenpool.
The interested person would
need to provide a weekly column
telling goings on in their area.
Anyone who would be interested
in writing for the Herald in this
manner should call Chuck Frevele,
managing editor, at 224-5185.
Horse sense
TULSA (AP) — City officials
are scrambling to prevent the
forced auction of the police depart-
ment’s horse, Refrigerator, and
instead provide for its retirement.
The 26-year-old horse is too old
and sick to continue its downtown
patrols, authorities say.
City ordinance requires it be sold
at public auction — even to some-
one with motives other than putting
Refrigerator happily to pasture.
So, Tulsa officials are rushing to
prevent the sale. The mayor is look-
ing at a pardon — donating the
horse to the officer who rides it —
and one councilor has proposed an
ordinance to guarantee retirement
benefits for city-owned animals.
Ceasing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) —
Action for Children’s Television, a
23-year-old group that has pushed
fer better TV, announced today that
it is disbanding, in part because
regulations governing program-
ming for kids are firmly in place.
"It seems crazy to stay in busi-
ness to be a sound bite,” said presi-
dent Peggy Charren. "People who
want better TV for kids now have
Congress on their side."
Charren cited passage of the
1990 Children’s Television Act as
one reason ACT is phasing out its
four-person staff by the end of the
year.
Under the federal law, broadcas-
ters can lose their licenses for fail-
ing to serve the educations! needs
of children.
Good response
Elsie Redden of Sapulpa says
she h»d s good reponse snd the tele-
phone rang off the hook when she
ran this clsssified ad in the Herald
Two bedroom, earptlod.
Countryfide area 8200.
month ♦ deposit, m an
For similar success, contact the
Herald’s classified advertising
department at 224-5185.
Health issue reviewed
U.S. Rep Mike Synar, D-Okla. (standing, left) and an
aide discuss the issue of health care costs with an audi-
ence of citizens at Sapulpa City Hall Tuesday. Synar
said he was basically trying to hear from public what
they feel is needed in the way of government action to
make health care more affordable and universally avail
able. (Herald photo by Bob Sherrill)
Sen. David Boren
Sends glass reassurance
Proposes new WPA version
By BOB SHERRILL
Herald Writer
A town hall meeting crowd Tuesday
told U. S. Rep. Mike Synar that an
urgent need exists for a national health
care program. Some suggested it be
financed by a national sales tax.
Local citizens also recommended
the program be all-encompassing
under one government entity for rcim
bursment. Tagged the “single payer
system,” coverage would be universal
including the unemployed and
students.
The meeting at Sapulpa City Hall
was called by Rep. Synar to outline
current problems and gather informa-
tion for the House Subcommittee on
Health and Environment which is
scheduled to begin its study later this
year.
Rep Synar said that Americans arc
spending an average of $2,354 annual-
ly for health care and yet 33 million
citizens arc uninsured. About one in
five non-cldcrly Oklahomans has no
health insurance, he said.
The group also voiced concern
about another form of national health
insurance which calls for businesses to
make the decision of providing direct
insurance or pay the government about
seven percent of payroll wages for
insurance.
One Sapulpan said that she was a
temporary employee and was fearful
that part time workers could be left out
of the program if businesses were
given options.
Another concern was whether the
proposed health plan would eliminate
other forms of federal health care
programs such as the Veterans Admi-
nistration and Indian Health care
programs.
Rep Synar said that he was not sure
what effect a new plan would have.
“Right now we have five programs
being financed in the U.S.,” Synar
said. “Private insurance,medicare,
mcdicadc, VA, and Native
American.”
One citizen remarked that currently
many physicians are refusing to accept
medicare patients because fees set by
ihe federal government arc too low,
and questioned how many physicians
would we lose under a federal health
care system.
Rep. Synar said that at present the
medical profession is getting about 40
percent of its income from govern-
ment agencies and the problem could
be solved.
Synar said not to expect a new prog-
ram this year.
“There will be a lot of work accom-
plished this year to get a health prog-
ram in the legislative mill. But, since
this is an election year it is unlikely
anything will be passed.
“However, we should sec some real
effort for passage of a national health
care plan, about this time next year,”
he said.
By CHUCK FREVELE
Managing Editor
Representatives of Sen. David
Boren’s office assured workers at
Bartlett-Collins Glass Co. yesterday
that open trade which could damage or
destroy the glass industry in this coun-
try is not likely to happen anytime
soon.
Rebecca Cooper said the free trade
agreement with Mexico is stalled right
now in Congress.
"Politically it may be difficult for
Bush to get it through next year,” she
said.
In addition, she said, Boren has
made agreements within the govern-
ment that would make it impossible to
open up the glass industry to free trade
in the near future.
In response to a question from one
worker, Fred Givens, manager of the
local plant, said although one never
knows what the future might hold that
the plant workers’ jobs are “secure
right now.”
One potential problem he foresees,
Givens said, is an agreement recently
reached between Coming and Vitro,
the Mexican glass industry.
“We still have to wait to see what
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Sea
David Boren says he anticipates a
“good bipartisan reception” to his
proposal for a modem Works Progress
Administration and Civilian Conser-
vation Corps.
Boren, D-Okla., made the proposals
Tuesday at news conferences in Okla-
homa City and Tulsa, saying some-
thing needs to be done to change a
welfare system that is “killing this
country.”
He said it was time for a change in
the welfare system “to give people a
chance to work instead of simply
giving them handouts.
“I think most Americans would be
shocked to leam that we spent over
$210 billion last year on welfare prog-
rams — almost 4 percent of our total
GNP,” he said.
Boren advocated a new Community
Works Progress Administration with-
in the federal Commerce Department.
He also proposed creation of a new
national youth corps like the Civilian
Conservation Corps of the 1930s.
He said the goal is to provide jobs
for the growing number of people who
are on welfare, unemployed or
homeless.
Boren did not have a price lag for
the program, but predicted it would
“save a lot of money for the taxpayers
in the long run.”
He said there would be additional
costs, but at least it would be a more
effective use of taxpayers’ money and
they would have something to show
for it.
He called the current welfare
system “a complete failure” that
victimizes taxpayers and recipients
and fosters a wide range of social
problems.
“I think the current welfare system
is really killing this country,” Boren
said.
He said providing jobs for able
welfare recipients and other unem-
ployed people would give them a new
lease on life. He said it would tend to
alleviate long-held resentments of
taxpayers about how government uses
their money.
Under the plan, local and state
governments, federal agencies, medi
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Examiner says car
wreck on purpose
By the Herald Staff
Investigators have determined a
Sapulpa man on leave from a Tulsa
correctional facility committed
suicide when he ran his car into a van
Sunday.
Don Grove, an investigator with the
state medical examiner’s office, said
the determination was based on medi-
cal examinations, law enforcement
investigation and statements of
witnesses, including that of the van s
passenger, Linda Rose Webber ol
Sapulpa.
“Basically, the van was the only
vehicle around” at the time of the
crash. Grove said.
The driver of the van. Albert
Tcrhunc of Sapulpa, took evasive
action to avoid Gibbs’ auto, but Gibbs
“corrected for every evasive maneuv-
er,” according to Grove.
Gibbs, who was serving time at a
Tulsa halfway house for assault and
battery and burglary convictions, had
been released on a weekend pass
Saturday, but corrections officials
could not locate him and issued advi-
sories to local police departments.
The crash occurred on SH 66 at 65th
West Avenue during a high-speed
pursuit by Sapulpa police.
Tcrhunc is listed in critical condi-
tion at Saint John Medical Center,
according to a hospital spokesperson.
Webber is listed in good condition.
Report outlines plan for UC AT
American National
buys mortgages
TULSA (AP) — Changing the
University Center at Tulsa from a
consortium to an independent school
would not automatically increase its
number of courses and programs, a
legislative report says.
But the plan could give the school a
greater voice in the higher education
community, it said.
The report was released Tuesday to
a House higher education subcommit-
tee and listed the pluses and minuses
of three proposals for the center.
The center is a consortium of the
University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State, Northeastern Oklahoma State
and Langston University.
One plan would increase the
presence of Oklahoma State at the
center, creating an advisory board to
the regents governing Oklahoma
State.
Another would grant free-standing
status but would add a University of
Oklahoma research center at the
center.
Hans Brisch, chancellor for higher
education, has said he favors the
current consortium arrangement.
The UCT board of trustees favors
the plan that would make the center
independent from the consortium,
controlled by a board of regents.
The report said turning the center
into a free-standing school would
guarantee it representation among the
Oklahoma Council of Presidents and
Council of Instruction, which addres-
ses statewide policies affecting admis-
sions and degree requirements.
But such a plan wouldn’t automati
cally increase the amount of courses
and programs, the report said. State
regents approve all programs at each
college and university Mid usually try
to avoid duplicating programs.
The report said the Oklahoma State
proposal could reduce Langston’s
presence at the center, which is feder-
ally mandated. But it also would allow
center students access student
services, library offerings and a grea
ter choice of academic programs.
The plan creating a University of
Oklahoma research center would cost
$362,290, the report said. It would
leave the center an independent
institution.
By the Herald Staff
A portfolio of 249 single-family
mortgages of the former Family
Savings Rank in Sapulpa have been
purchased for $6.2 million by Ameri-
can National Bank & Trust Company
of Sapulpa.
The portfolio was one of two sold
Tuesday by the Resolution Trust
Corporation. Both portfolios were
sold through a scaled bid process. The
RTC received 24 bids for the Sapulpa
loans.
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Man hurt in wreck
UCAT needs expansion, Dodson says
By the Herald Staff
Dr. Charles Dodson, Sapulpa super-
intendent of schools, said he thinks it is
important that the University Center at
Tulsa continue to be expanded and that
it become a state university.
"Having graduate level courses
available to our teachers here at an
affordable price is important,” Dodson
said. "Many of our teachers are taking
courses there and seme are working on
their masters’ degrees.”
Dodson said not many undergradu-
ates from Sapulpa attend UCAT.
"Most go to Tuba Junior College,
he said. "That is the institution which
gets the largest number of Sapulpa
graduates.”
However, Dodson said he feels that
when they get ready for upper division
courses, many do attend UCAT.
He said the accessibility and
reduced cost of UCAT are the biggest
factors drawing local people.
“The only complaint I’ve had is that
not a good enough variety of courses
are offered,” he said.
By the Herald Staff
A Sapulpa man was hospitalized
after he was injured in an auto accident
Tuesday, according to police.
A report indicated a pickup driven
by James Lloyd Neal, 72, 4075 Lake-
side Drive, made a left tum in front of a
car driven by Freddie Lee Birch, 53,
1806 S. Muskogee, at the intersection
of Main and McKinley at 2:35 p.m.
Tuesday.
Birch was taken by Creek County
Ambulance to Tulsa Regional Medical
Center. Neal was uninjured.
Neal was cited *br failure to yield.
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Investigation of Tuesday
house fire to continue
By fhs Herald Staff
The cause of the fire which
damaged a Sapulpa residence Tuesday
has not been determined, officials
Firefighters were called to the Milo
Vacin residence, 1316 E. Jackson, at
11:38 a.m. by a heating ay**™
serviceman who saw smoke coming
from the house, Fire Marshal Dean
Wiie aaid.
It took lea* than 10 minutes for fire-
fighters to control the fire, which origi-
nated in a bedroom, aaid Wise.
Flame Anp waa confined to the
betkoom, but the met of the house
suffered same smoke damage, accord-
ing to the fire report
The cause ofthe fire his been listed
as "supicioua,” the report indicated.
The investigation is continuing.
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Search and rescue
Hmmen go into a burning house at 1316 E. Jackson
on a search and rescue mission a short time after arriving
at the site just before lunchtime Tuesday. Nobody was in
the house when the fire, which started in a bedroom.
broke out. An investigation is continuing into die cause
of the fire, which has been labeled “suspicious,” firs
officials said. (Herald photo by Bob Sherrill)
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