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Accident on Hobson
James F. Dodson, Shamrock, and Karen Sue Pclrec,'
Bristow, were involved in an accident at the intersection
of Hobson and Park at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Dodson was
attempting to turn south onto Park when his vehicle
PAGE TWO-A Sapnlpa (OklaJ HaraM, TBnreday,
News Digest—
Ticking package detonated
WEATHERFORD, OkU. (AF) — Fragments of a ticking package i
after it wu found in the haaement of a college dormitory will be analyzed to find
out if it actually contained a bomb, taid Southwestern Oklahoma State Universi-
ty police Chief Randy Killgore.
The package was detonated Wednesday after a student saw aoroene take it to
the basement of the dormitory building at about 6:30 pm. and run away, Killgore
said.
The package had “10 o’clock" written on the outside and contained a shoe-
box with something ticking inside, he said.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad wu called to detonate the pack-
age in a dorm parking lot, Killgore said.
Students were evacuated Gram the building at about 6:30 pjn. and were allow-
ed to return at 11 p.m., he said.
Bixby’s ambulance service taken over
BIXBY, Olda. (AP) — Tulsa's Emergency Medical Services Authority took
over Bixby’s ambulance service today u the city ended its contract with
Community Wide Ambulance Services, city officials said.
TIm city council must formally ratify a contract with EMS A at a meeting Sept
12. The authority will serve the area until then on a contract agreed upon verbally
last week, said City Manager Marguerite Lofton.
Steve Williamson, executive director of EMSA, said the city will pay a one- _
time fee of $90,000 for services provkfcd A. alula a
Bixby residents will be offered a chance to sign up for an annual fee to cover 1 E
Williamson said two new ambulances will be used to service the southeast
Tuba County community.
American Medical International, owner of CommunityWide, notified Bixby
officials July 23 that they would not renew a service contract with the city and
would discontinue service Aug. 23.
Charges considered in fraud trial
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors will begin considering charges today of fraud
against Homcstakc Production Co., accused in a lS-ycar legal battle of misrepre-
senting its financial condition and the value of drilling programs to wealthy
investors.
Closing arguments ended Wednesday as both sides rested their cases before
visiting U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, chief judge of the Los Angeles federal
courts. Real is expected to give jurors instructions today.
Homestakc officials arc accused of using proceeds from unit sales each year to
cover revenue payments to investors in previous programs. Prosecutors claim the
alleged scheme collapsed, farcing Homestakc into bankruptcy in 1973 after an
investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Internal Revenue
Service.
Homestakc has contended the investors were sophisticated, knowledgeable
people who were aware of the risk involved in the venture. Attorneys for the
company argued Homestakc provide appropriate disclosures on the investments.
State in running for museum
TULSA, Okla. (AP)—Oklahoma is among at least four states competing for a
proposed $130 million military museum complex being built to commemorate
wars fought by the United States.
A decision on the site is not expected until later this year, said John Radell,
head of the Institute fur the Study of American Wars in Wilmington, Del. The
private organization is promoting the complex, which will be funded by corpo-
rate and private donations.
The development was reported in today's editions of the Tulsa World.
A 300-acre area near Okmulgee is being proposed for the museum, Okmulgee
Chamber of Conuncrce President Roy Ehly said.
Suit claims Tulsa mall
discriminates blacks
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collided with Petroc's car going east on Hobson. Dodson
wu cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic, accord-
ing to police. (Herald photo by Dandle Keho).
POLICE REPORTS
Grand larceny—
William S. Giacumo, 721 W.
Roosevelt, told police Wednesday a
piece to his salclilc rccicvcr, valued at
$130, wu stolen.
Larceny reported—
Robert C. Robertson, 503 Pioneer
Rd., told police Wednesday his gym
bag containing a pair of pants, shirt,
billfold and driver's license was stolen
while he was at the high school track.
Value of the contents stolen was $190.
Assault reported—
James Elton Bowles, 500 block of
W. Thompson, told police Wednesday
tic was usaullcd at the intersection of
Hickory and the railroad tracks.
SHERIFF'S REPORTS
Vehicle theft—
Laura Aim Davis, Stroud, told
deputies Tuesday her 1988 GMC 4X4
Jeep was stolen. Value of the vehicle
wu $19,000.
Vehicle burglarized—
Joe E. Stickler, 825 Mesa Circle,
told deputies Tuesday his car was
broken into and a CB, two radios and
speakers were taken.
FIRE REPORTS
Car fire—
Firefighters resj)onded at 3:05 p.m.
Wednesday to a car fire south of West-
land Rd. on Taft.
Bill Parker reported that his Volvo
backfired and caused $1,000 damage
to the car.
Car fire—
Dennis Culver called firefighters at
8:37 p.m. Wednesday to put out a car
fire at 1402 E. Hill. Vehicle damage
wu placed at $200.
Dump fire—
Firefighters responded at 9:07 p.in.
Wednesday to pul out a fire at an old
trash dump '/4-milc north of SH117 on
SH 33 west
Trips allowed for employees
TULSA. Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa
woman claims in a $7.3 million
lawsuit that security guards in a local
mall~ discriminate against black
youtlis, insulting them and refusing
them admittance.
Jayne Reed filed the suit Wedncs-
d. y in U.S. District Court, alleging
that a security guard at the Williams
Center Forum in downtown Tulsa
ordered three black girls to leave the
mall on Jan. 16 for no apparent reason.
One of the girls wu Ms. Reed's
13-year-old daughter.
Ms. Reed claims in the suit that at
least 30 other black youths were
forced from the mall that day. She said
the girls were insulted by the guard
before being allowed to re-enter the
malL
But officials of the company that
owns the mall said security guards
were enforcing an old policy of
banning unsupervised youths from the
multi-level shopping complex. That
policy wu dropped in late January
after the alleged incident Ms. Reed
refers to in die suit.
“We were indiscriminately making
all kids get out of the mall who weren’t
with adults. That was wrong,” said
Malt Davis, Tulsa retail manager for
mall owner Trammell Crow Co. The
company took over the complex in
January.
Ms. Reed and her daughter both are
socking $3.75 million
By JOAN MOWER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney
General Richard L Thornburgh will
only permit Justice Department
employees to take trips directly related
to their jobs, a policy that could have
barred some officials from traveling to
Japan with Edwin Moose 111 this week,
a top aide says.
The aide, speaking Wednesday on
condition he not be identified, said
Thornburgh raised questions about the
Tokyo trip taken by six officials, but
decided against canceling any part of it
to spare the Japanese hosts any
embarrassment.
“There were international consid-
erations to let it go ahead," the aide
said, noting the event had been sche-
duled long in advance. “It involved a
foreign government and certain
commitments had been made."
The six department officials joined
Mccse, the former attorney general, at
a four-day legal symposium in Tokyo
that ends today. All are Reagan admi-
nistration appointees at risk of losing
their jobs next year.
Thornburgh's aide said the former
Pennsylvania governor hu been
reviewing the department's travel
policies since he was sworn m to
succeed Mccsc on Aug. 12.
“Based on his experiences in
Pennsylvania, he will only permit
travel when it pertains exactly to your
job,” the aide said. He said this policy
would rule out traveling on “pcoplc-
lo-pcople type” exchanges that arc not
directly job-related.
“Going on this kind of trip was
originally raised in Pciuisylvania,”
the aide said. “The decision in
Pennsylvania was not to go on these
kinds of trips.”
The Japan delegation wu headed
by Joseph A. Morris, director of the
office of liaison services. Morris has
announced his resignation to join the
Mid-America Legal Foundation in
Chicago on Sept. 18.
Others on the trip were Richard
Abell, assistant attorney general at‘(he
office of justice programs; Charles F.
Rule, usistant attorney general of the
antitrust division; Patrick Kortcn,
director of the office of public affairs;
Robert Bonner, U.S. attorney in Los
Angeles, and Cheryl Nolan, Morris’
subordinate.
Thornburgh declined his invitation
to attend the ‘‘U.S.-Japan Bilateral
Session: A New Era in Legal and
Economic Relations.”
The program included seminars
such as “Creating a Crime-Free Soci-
ety,” and “Japan-U.S. Relations:
Sharing a Common Goal.” There
were also addresses by Japanese and
Americans and field trips to prisons,
Japanese companies and government
offices.
Mccsc, now a fellow at the conser-
vative Heritage Foundation, a think-
tank, gave a speech entitled, “We the
People: The Foundation for
U.S.-Japan Relations.”
Morris, in a memo to his colleagues,
said one theme of the conference wu
“the interest in the U.S. in learning
ways to become a less litigious
society.”
The Justice Department paid the
expenses of the six U.S. officials, but
did not pick up the lab for Mccsc or his
wife, Ursula.
Nonnan Swanson, a spokesman for
Pcoplc-io-Pcoplc International, the
Kansu City-based sponsor of the
conference, told The New York Times
the group would cover the Mccscs’
travel expenses.
But William Barraclough, the head
of Pcoplc-io-Pcoplc, a non-profit
group, said he did not know if his
group had paid the Mccscs' way.
Gas,
More blacks in poverty
Mayor ousted by jury
for his ‘voodoo’ pranks
FLORALA, Ala. (AP) — Florala’s
85-year-old mayor wu "hurt very
much’’ by a jury's swift decision to
remove him from office for pardoning
drunken drivers and embarrassing the
town with “voodoo” pranks, his
lawyer says.
Former Mayor H.T. Mathis ran out
of the Covington County Courthouse
without commenting on the jury’s
impeachment verdict Wednesday,
reached after one hour of deliberations
following a three-day trial.
City Councilman Jack Inabinetl
immediately usumed mayoral duties,
and said he was conferring with the
state attorney general's office about
selecting Mathis’ pcnnanctu
successor.
Mathis, a first-term mayor, got
national publicity for sprinkling
“voodoo powder” around City Hall
and later holding a midnight news
conference to proclaim “National
Voodoo Week.”
He wu accused of turning Florals
into a national laughingstock because
of the voodoo pranks and undermining
the town's legal process by pardoning
convicted drunken drivers, many of
them more than once.
James Prcslwood, Mathis' attorney,
said he would seek a new trial for the
mayor, who testified in circuit court
that he pardoned dozens of convicted
offenders because he’s “soft
hearted.”
“He wu hurl very much by the
verdict,” Preslwood said.
But City Gcrk Betty Hooten, who
testified for the prosecution, said the
town of 5,000 near the Florida border
wu now ready to pull together and get
the “bad publicity” behind them.
The jury ruled that Mathis should be
removed from office on grounds of
incompetence and neglect of duty.
Circuit Judge William Baldwin said
Mathis wu immediately ousted from
office with the verdict.
Construction spending up
due to government building
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is time to be forward-looking and
institute initiatives which will ensure
the long-term stability and security of
our nation’s energy supplies.”
The GAO report noted that if the
Persian Gulf were closed to shipping,
consumers would lose 7 million
barrels of oil a day and only about 4.6
to 5.1 million barrels a day could be
offset by utilizing excess production,
pipelines and fuel switching.
Synar said the shortfall in the
United States initially could be offset
by withdrawals from the U.S. Strateg-
ic Petroleum Reserve. He said
Congress hu increased fill rates for
the reserve over objections from
Reagan.
Synar said although transportation
accounts for 66 percent of the nation's
daily oil demand, the Department of
Transportation hu called for abolition
of fuel economy guidelines and hu
weakened the standards automakers
arc required to meet
The GAO report recommended
development of alternative fuels and
more efficient fuel use for transporta-
tion, continued development of the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve stock-
pile, improvements in the nation’s
emergency response plans and crea-
tion of a more stable economic and
regulatory atmosphere.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly
one-tliird of all black Americans live
in poverty, according to new govern-
ment statistics showing a significant
increase in the number of poor blacks
last year.
Poverty among black Americans
climbed 2 percentage points to 33.1
percent last year, according to the
Census Bureau's annual study of
income and poverty released on
Wednesday.
That means that there were an esti-
mated 9,683,000 poor blacks u of
1987, 700,000 more than a year
earlier.
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwatcr said the increase in black
poverty "obviously is disappoint-
ing,” but maintained that the report
had good news overall, reporting
rising incomes for most Americans.
Benjamin Hooks, head of the
National Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, said he was
not surprised at the findings on black
Americans.
“We have been saying that this is
happening, the poverty rale among
blacks is sliding upward and family
income is sliding down,” Hooks said
Robert Grccnstcin of the private
Center for Budget and Policy Priori-
ties termed the figures “most disturb-
ing ... The economic recovery is leav-
ing many poor Americans behind.”
The news wu even worse for black
children, noted Grccnstcin, whose
STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST
NOON CLOSINGS
WASHINGTON (AP)—Construc-
tion spending jumped 1.2 percent in
July as strength in government build-
ing projects and offices and apart-
ments offset declines in single-family
bousing, factories and shopping
centers, the government said today.
The Commerce Department said
building activity rose to a seasonally
adjusted annual rale of $401.0 billion
in July, following a revised 1.5 percent
decline in June. The June figure had
been preliminarily estimated at a 0.1
percent gain.
The July infPM^* was the strongest
rise since March, when construction
shot up 2-8 percent.
The strength came in a 3.8 percent
increase in government construction
projects, which rose to an annual rale
of $81.2 billion and included a 118
percent jump in highway construction.
Construction of office buildings in
July wu up 19 percent to $28.8
billion. Activity in that sector hu risen
or held steady in every month since
February.
Fsctory construction, which had
enjoyed strong gains in March, April
and May u manufacturers increased
capacity to meet a boom in export
sales, fell 0.7 percent to $13.8 billion
in July.
Residential construction overall
was up 0.5 percent to an annual rate of
$188.3 billion in July, following three
monthly declines.
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Jim Kirkpatrick. Mgr.
organization studies the effects of
government programs on the poor.
The poverty rate for black children
aged 18 and under was 45.6 percent
last year, up from 43 percent in 1986,
the Census report showed.
Nearly half, 49.1 percent, of blacks
under age 3 lived fcwlow the poverty
level in 1987, the study found.
"These new data confirm that the
1980s have been a terrible decade for
the poor in America, despite overall
progress in unemployment and the
economy,” said Robert J. Fcrsh,
executive director of the Food
Research and Action Center, a non-
profit organization seeking to alleviate
hunger and poverty.
Stuart Butler of the conservative
Heritage Foundation said the census
figures count only cash and not such
benefits as food stamps, subsidized
housing and medical care available to
low income persons.
He said such benefits cost billions
of dollars annually and if counted as
income would make a significant dent
in the poverty statistics.
For Americans overall, the census
study said, the poverty rate was down
slightly even though the actual number
of poor people increased. That
divergence occurred because the
population overall increased faster
than the number of poor.
The number of persons in poverty
touted 32.5 million in 1987, slightly
higher than the 32.4 million reported
for 1986.
JANICE WATASHE\
Death-
Stephens
Services for Mr. Claud "Jack’*
Stephens Sr., will be 2 p.m. Saturday
at the Church of God, 722 N. Hodge,
with the Rev. Sam Gobcr officiating.
Burial and commits! riles will be at
South Heights Cemetery under the
direction of Owen Funeral Home.
Casket bearers will be Newt J.
Stephens Jr., Jimmy Dean Stephens,
Liny T. Stephens, Mirl Ray Kellogg
and Richard Johnson. Honorary bearer
will be Newt J. Stephens Sr.
Mr. Stephens, a long time Sapulpa
resident, diod Tuesday in Chickasha,
Okla.
The family will headquarter the
home of Jim Weaver, 606 S. Cedar.
S&L’s
rescued
in state
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
regulators are continuing a rapid pace
of savings and loan rescues by pledg-
ing $1.9 billion to restore 14 failing
institutions in Oklahoma to solvency.
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Chairman M. Danny Wall said
Wednesday his agency would merge
the 14 SALs into six larger institutions
and begin efforts to sell them to private
buyers with a meeting today with
Oklahoma investors.
Through the sales, the agency hopes
to get back some of its assistance,
which includes $1.2 billion in 10-year
promissory notes and $700 million in
guarantees against future losses.
In just two weeks, the agency has
pledged nearly $ 10 billion to rescue, in
addition to the Oklahoma institutions,
21 in Texas, five in Minncsou and one
each in Iowa, Idaho, California and
Tennessee.
Wall indicated the fast pace will
continue over the next month.
"We will be very active,” he said.
He declined to provide details, but
the agency’s spokesman, Karl Hoyle,
said pending transactions in Texas and
other states would involve billions of
dollars more. The problem is greatest
in the Southwest, which has been hard
hit by problems in the oil industry.
In pan, the agency, which got a new
board and an infusion of cash last
summer, is merely ‘ ‘hilling its stride,”
Wall said, but he acknowledged that
the board felt pressured to act quickly
by a pending change in the way the
federal budget deficit is calculated.
Although the bank board receives
its money through an assessment on
the industry and not from the taxpay-
ers, its spending counts toward the
deficit
Effective at the sun of the 1989
fiscal year on Oct. 1, government
accountants will count the bank
board's promissory notes as immedi-
ate spending. Thus, any notes issued
before Oct. 1 greatly case the admi-
nistration's budget-balancing burden.
The bank board was facing a dead-
line today to wrap up negotiations with
the Robert M. Bass Group of Fort
Worth, Texas, which is seeking feder-
al assistance to acquire American
Savings and Loan Association of
Stockton, Calif., one of the nation’s
largest SALs.
The board began negotiating with
the Bass Group exclusively on April
21 and twice has extended the dead-
line. Wall promised an announccmciu
on American today but would not say
whether the board had struck a deal or
was planning to continue negotiations.
Industry sources have said between
$1.5 billion and $2 billion in federal
money likely will be required for that
rescue, which would make it the
largest bailout of a single SAL.
Including the Oklahoma package,
regulators have closed or merged 94
S&Ls so far this year, compared with
48 for all of last year.
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