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Sapulpa Daily
SUNDAY 75$—DAILY 35$
Sunday, August 1, 1993
Vol. 78-No. 275-24 Pages-Copyright © 1993
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Sapulpa. Okla. 74060-224-0180
Thought For Today
Proverbs 5:24 - There-
fore as the church Is
subject unto chrlst .so let
the wines .be to their own
husbands In everything.
Today
Incidentally
Happy 23rd anniversary to
Larry and Darlene Roberts ...
Happy birthday today to Ron
Mlntz, 30, and Matthew Sontag,
12.
Weather
Today: Partly sunny with a 20
percent chance of thunderstorms.
High in the mid 90s. Southwest
wind becoming northeast around
10 mph.
Enrollment
TULSA—Enrollment for teams
and individuals at the Turner
Recreation Center in Tulsa will be
held at 7 p.m.. Sept. 13. Ages 16
and older are invited to attend a
meeting on the above date.
A story telling class will be held
at Turner Recreation Center from
10 to 11 a.m. on Sept. 25 and from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m., on Sept. 29.
There is a charge.
For more information about both
events call the center at 669-6658.
Accident
By the Associated Press
A Locust Grove man was killed
and a passenger in his pickup truck
was injured in a single-vehiie acci-
dent in Mayes County, the Oklaho-
ma Highway Patrol said.
Darrell C. Small, 20, died late
Friday of massive injuries at St.
John Medical Center in Tulsa.
Small’s pickup was headed north
on Oklahoma Highway 82 when he
swerved to miss another vehicle
that was stopped in the road in front
of him.
Both Small and Shawn D. Holt,
23, were thrown from the vehicle.
Holt was in stable condition at a
Pryor hospital with head and other
injuries. Neither men were wearing
seatbelts, the patrol said.
Drowning
FORT COBB, Okla. (AP) —
Authorities believe an El Reno man
may have drowned in a boating
accident on Fort Cobb Lake. A boat
driven by Eldon Allen Lebleu, 43,
was traveling north on the Caddo
County lake Friday evening when a
steering cable broke, causing the
vessel to make a sharp right turn,
the Oklahoma Lake Patrol
reported.
Lebleu and William Allen
Lebleu, 21, were thrown out of the
boat, the lake patrol said. William
Lebleu is presumed drowned, offi-
cials said.
Bus robbery
NEW YORK (AP) — Police
searched today for three teen-agers
who boarded a city bus, fired shots
into the ceiling and robbed 22
people of jewelry and cash.
Two armed male teens boarded
the bus Friday at a stop in Queens,
said Detective Kim Royster, a
police spokeswoman. A third male
teen-ager, who was unarmed,
helped collect the loot, about $300
in cash and jewelry.
Arrest
STARKVELLE, Miss. (AP) —
Mississippi State senior defensive
end Tim Foster has been charged
with burglary and has been
suspended indefinitely from the
team.
Foster, 21, a Griffin, Ga., native,
remained in the Oktibbeha County
Jail on Saturday on $5,000 bond.
Foster was arrested Thursday
and charged in a July 2 incident in
which a pistol and some money
was taken from the Old Mayhew
Apartments, Starkville police said
Friday.
Foster started six games last
season for the Bulldogs and was
listed as a starter on the depth chart
after spring workouts.
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Lawmakers mull tax bill vote
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three
Oklahoma House members who could
be swing votes on President Clinton’s
deficit-reduction package are weigh-
ing the symbolic effects of a proposed
fuel tax increase included in the
measure.
Rep. Bill Brewster, D-Okla., said
even though most drivers would be
paying less than they were in the
mid-1980s with the4.3-cent increase,
“it’s an issue of regional fairness.”
“The gas tax is going to be extreme-
ly hard for our part of the country,”
Brewster told the Daily Oklahoman's
Washington bureau.
He and Democratic Congressmen
Glenn English and Dave McCurdy
said Friday they were still officially
undecided on the package, although
Brewster and English were leaning
against the bill with the fuel tax
included.
“There’s a lot of principle involved
in it,” English said. “I think middle-
income families would like to see this
package with no tax increase at all on
any middle-income working
families.”
All three predicted the measure's
demise in the House with the fuel tax
in it. Brewster said the bill could pass
if the tax were taken out of the nearly
$500 billion reduction package.
Many lawmakers are against falling
below the $500 billion mark, but addi-
tional budget cuts to offset the loss of
revenue would likely be difficult.
Brewster said he was “inclined to
vote against it if it does have a gas
tax.”
English wouldn’t say whether he
would definitely vote against the
measure with the fuel tax included.
But he indicated he could support it if
the tax were removed.
The revenue lost from eliminating
the fuel tax hike could be offset by
raising further the bill’s income tax
hikes on the wealthy, English has said.
McCurdy said he wanted to read the
finished product before he makes up
his mind.
“They’ve come a long way (since it
first passed the House),” McCurdy
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Summer band begins
Sapulpa band director Loren Pettys shows sixth
grader Phillip Nichols how to set up a snare drum.
Summer band classes begin Monday. Students can
continue to enroll for Instrumental music and march-
ing band through this week. (Herald Staff Photo by
JAN EVANS)
Enrollment time is near
With 100-degree days coming with
alarming frequency, it might seem a
bit difficult for students to start think-
ing about school.
Nonetheless, students and parents,
need to start preparing now, since
Sapulpa Public School students begin
classes on Aug. 18.
Enrollment for kindergarten
through the fifth grades will be held
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. All
students entering these grades should
pre-enroll.
Enrollment for new students in
middle school, junior high school and
senior high school will be held from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m., beginning Monday and
continuing through Aug. 17.
Garfield Early Childhood Center
enrollment will be held from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. on Monday. Enrolling students
should have their inoculation records,
birth certificate and Social Security
number.
New students enrolling at Sapulpa
schools should take the most recent
report card. A parent or guardian must
accompany the student in order to
enroll in all grades.
Dates for picking up the student
schedules will be announced at a later
date.
President now pacing himself
Rush to start may have hurt efforts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Clinton says his hurry to get started
may have been responsible for the
sometimes rocky periods in his first
six months as president.
And, he says, some Washington
experience might have helped because
“I would have had a little bit better
sense of the interplay of the power
centers around town.”
“I think there was less of a honey-
moon here than I had anticipated,”
Clinton said in an interview to be
published Sunday in The Los Angeles
Times Magazine. “I was genuinely
surprised when the Republican sena-
tors attempted to filibuster — and did
successfully filibuster—the emergen-
cy johs bill.”
The interview waa conducted last
month by Times reporters Jack Nelson
and Robert Donovan.
Clinton characterized a lot of his
early mistakes in office as ‘ ’mistakes
of process,” not product.
“You can make an argument that I
should have started a little more slow-
ly ... but I was in a hurry to get
started.”
Clinton said he even enjoyed the
battles far his program.
“I like a good fight... as long as I’m
fighting for something I believe in, as
long as I believe that in the end the
people will be better off,” he said.
He said he realizes there always will
be down days and up days and knows
he will make some mistakes.
“The more you try to do, the more
likely you are to err from time to
time,” he said, adding that American
people “gave me a contract, and I’m
going to fulfill it to the best of my
ability.”
He concedes that “sometimes in
this job I feel I get behind the eij^it-
ball and can’t get out from under it as
quickly as possible” and that “it’s not
as easy to reach out directly to the
people and cut through the cacophony
of noise and rhetoric.”
He’s philosophical about losses
“because that’s the democratic
process. ... I either will prevail in the
end, or I won’t.”
But, he said, it’s frustrating to feel
“that people have an impression of
who you are, what you believe, or
what you’re trying to do that is not
quite accurate, and you think you can’t
quite get through.
said. “They eliminated the Btu, it’s
got a better ratio, it's got more cuts. Is
it the best we can get? Can we get
better by holding out? I don’t know.”
McCurdy, Brewster and Rep. Mike
Synar, D-Okla., voted for the bill when
it passed the House in May.
A spokeswoman for Synar said he
was planning to vote for the measure,
barring any unforeseen changes in the
bill.
English and the state’s two Republi-
can House members voted against the
bill in May.
GOP members have vowed to vote
against it again. In the Senate, Sen.
Don Nickles, R-Okla., is adamantly
opposed, while Sen. David Boren, D-
Okla., is leaning against it.
McCurdy said he agreed to vote for
the bill the first time to move the
process along. He extracted promises
that the broad-based energy tax would
be removed, more cuts would be
included and personnel changes would
be made at the White House.
Since then, he said, the Btu tax was
removed, more cuts were added and
Republican David Gcrgen was hired to
do public relations at the White House.
McCurdy says he want to read the
bill first.
“It’s hard to comment on some-
thing you haven’t seen,” he said. “I’m
saying show me first, then I’ll
decide.”
Officials still
mum on probe
By STEVEN JAMES
City Editor
Police officials will still not confirm
whether a Sapulpa police officer has
been suspended pending an internal
investigation of allegations of physical
abuse.
Chief of Police Ron Sole did say,
however, that he expects the investiga-
tion to be completed sometime this
week.
Sole has declined to comment on
reports from several sources in the
department who say Ptl. Barbara
McCoy was suspended early last
week.
An unnamed Oklahoma Highway
Patrol trooper has been suspended
while the patrol conducts its own
probe into the matter, according to Lt.
Gerald Davidson.
Davidson declined to name the
trooper when The Sapulpa Daily
Herald inquired last week, stating the
patrol does not discuss internal
investigations.
Sources have identified the trooper
as Jack McCoy, Barbara McCoy’s
husband.
Efforts by The Herald to reach the
McCoys for comment have been
unsuccessful.
Davidson did say the allegations
involve physical abuse of a suspect
who was in custody in Sapulpa on July
23. He would not elaborate.
City to consider
Main Street pact
Sapulpa city commissioners will
meet Monday to take action on a prop-
osed contract between the city and the
Sapulpa Main Street program.
The proposal has been approved by
the Main Street board and the commis-
sion’s Intergovernmental Relations
Committee.
Under the terms of the contract, the
city will pay Uptown Sapulpa Action
Inc. (Main Street’s corporate name)
$16,000 in monthly installments to
continue its economic development
program.
The city will also pay up to $5,000
for a downtown cleanup program and
up to $4,000 for the construction of a
band stage to be built this fall at an
undetermined location.
In other action, the commission will
meet in executive session to discuss
the ongoing investigation into the
disappearance of cash and evidence
from the Sapulpa Police Department
property room.
The city’s lawsuit against Sapulpa
Rural Water Company and two rural
water districts who purchase water
through SRWC will also be discussed
behind closed doors.
The city recently lost its bid to
purchase SRWC after the Oklahoma
Supreme Court declined to grant the
city’s request to reconsider a ruling
prohibiting the city from purchasing it.
Commissioners were unable to
discuss the ruling at the last meeting
because the city did not receive offi-
cial notice until after the agenda had
been set, according to City Manager
Mark Roath.
Other items on the agenda include:
— Hold public hearing and consider
motion regarding request to move a
residence to the southeast comer of
Wallace and Johnson.
— Consider motion on the Sapulpa
Area Chamber Foundation’s request
for reduced green fees for their benefit
tournament slated Aug. 13.
— Consider request of Citizens for
Teens to hold a block party at the BTW
Recreation Center on Aug. 28. The
group has requested to hold monthly
block parties thereafter, except for the
summer months when the block
parties would be held every two
weeks.
— Consider motion declaring a lot in
the Business Men’s Addition as surp-
lus property and authorizing city staff
to advertise it for sale.
— Consider motion authorizing
Mayor J.D. Markctic to sign an intera-
gency agreement with Creek County
to reconstruct Walnut Street from
Hobson to Line.
— Consider motion authorizing the
mayor to sign ladder truck mainte-
nance agreement with Sutphen
T owers.
— Consider motion approving the H
and H Boring Company to perform
construction services on Taft Avenue
for $3,600.
The meeting will convene at 7 p.m.
in the Commission Chambers at City
Hall, 425 E. Dewey.
County board meets
The Board of Creek County
Commissioners will discuss and act on
a claim from William Conrad of Jenks
during its meeting Monday.
According to a claimant’s report,
Conrad alleges that a stop sign at the
intersection of 61st and west 62nd
Street was completely hidden by trees
and shrubs causing him to collide with
another vehicle on July 9, 1992.
The report states Conrad was
thrown 23 feet from his Ford truck. He
is seeking at least $35,000 in
compensation.
The board will also discuss and act
on a claim from county employee
Deidra Hughes involving a minor
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Jailer wounded, inmate killed in shooting
TULSA (AP) — Investigators
awaited results of an autopsy Saturday
to qompleto their investigation of a
shooting (hat teft a federal prisoner
dead and a jailer wounded.
Tulse County jailer Michael
O’Keefe was grazed in the head and
treated md released from a Tulsa
hospital after ftiday night's shooting.
O’Keefe was escorting federal pris-
oner Perry Stuart and state tenure
Enoch McKnight through the county
courthouse when one produced a
small-caliber, automatic pistol, offi-
cials said.
A scuffle ensued and Stuart, 35. was
fatally abet in the head. Cape Jerry
Griffin of the sheriffs office said
Saturday.
Stunt's hometown is unknown,
Griffin said. Ante? of Idn was listed in
Compton, Calif., hut his mother was
contacted in Phiamix, he said.
IdAgatecfjd
in Phneair,
McKnight, 19 of Tulsa,
injured, Griffin said.
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was not
Undersheriff Bill Thompson said
Friday officials were trying to deter-
mine if Stuart "was kilted in the
scuffle or accidentally shot himself.”
Thompson said the jailer had been
locked in a roam by the prisoners
when the second, fetal shot was fired
"Apparently, (the shooting) was
hot caused by anything concerning the
jailer because he had already been
locked up in an officer’s bolding room.
They had his keys in their hands,” be
said.
“We don’t know where the weapon
came from,’ ’ Griffin said. "That's the
missing link.”
A broken jail elevator has farced
jailers to use a public elevator to move
prisoners. Investigators are looking at
the public elevator as the source for the
handgun.
Although sheriffs detectives
believe Stuart’s mortal wound was
self-inflicted, the state Medical
Examiner had yet to confirm a cause of
death, Griffin said.
In June, 35 prisoners sharpened
broom handles and tried to stab jailers
on an eighth-floor cellblock. Two pris-
oners who fought with jailers were
shocked with electrically charged riot
shields.
Also in June, a prisoner escaped
through an eighth-floor sir vote.
Authorities found the prisoner about
20 minutes later hiding under a car
behind a nearby fire Italian.
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