Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 257, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 12, 1981 Page: 15 of 46
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Court test likely
A court battle appears to lie ahead over property
tax ratios. The state Board of Equalization approved
the property tax valuations of 76 of the 77 counties
although studies show that dozens of counties are out
of compliance J>ased on previous standards... A7.
League Champs
The Sapulpa basketball teams ended their season
on a winning note. Both varsity and junior varsity
teams won their final games Thursday... as
Children enjoy sports
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School children are taking a breather from
academics and enjoying summertime sports from
fishing and rodeo to old-fashioned fun in a tire swing
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Heps spar for votes
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U.S. Representatives Mike Synar and Jim Jones
still spar for democratic votes while the future of a
compromise congressional redistricting plan is un-
,. certain. ... A5. ft
Sapulpa and vicinity — Clear to partly cloudy
with hot afternoons through Sunday. Extended
outlook calls for continued hot afternoon, with
temperatures reaching into the low 100s.
Overnight lows will be in the upper 70s. Sunday
highs will be near 100.
Jack McKenzie named
as Sapulpa police chief
By JAMES LAUGMLIN
Herald City Editor
A twenty year veteran of the
Oklahoma Highway Patrol, who has
been active In Sapulpa for the past 13
years, has been named as the
replacement for retiring Sapulpa
Police Chief Howard K. Jones.
Jack McKenzie, 56, will take over the
duties of police chief on August 1. He
will begin working with Chief Jones on
July 15 to prepare for the transition of
leadership.
McKenzie has had a long career In
law enforcement, which began when he
joined the Ponca City Police Depart-
ment in 1946. He attained the rank of
captain with that department before
joining the Oklahoma Highway Patrol
in 1946.
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Jack McKenzie
District 24, which includes Creek and
After completing 20 years of services Okfuskee counties,
with the OHP, McKenzie accepted a In 1974, McKenzie was named the
position with the Creek County District director of the Juvenile Division of the
Attorney’s office as an investigator for Creek County District Court under
Judge Streeter Speakman.
McKenzie left the law enforcement
field in 1978 when he took over the
duties of director for Sapulpa’s Com-
munity Education program.
He stepped down from the education
post when he attempted to win a seat as
Creek County Commissioner for
District One. He was defeated in that
bid by now-Commissioner Dan
Whitehouse.
In making the selection, City
Manager Dale Block said that
McKenzie offered “a balance we were
striving for to continue quality
leadership in the police department.
“Like many Sapulpans, I have a
great deal of respect for Jack as an
individual, and for his integrity,” Block
said. “I can’t minimize that quality in
any official. As public servants go, I
think he will be outstanding.”
McKenzie was unavailable for
comment as of press time today.
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ESLTL’S, Ph“° * E" Walke’'
First phase of HUD grant
is approved,
By JAMES LAUGHLIN
Herald City Editor
The first phase of a three-year
rehabilitation program ■im»d at the
northeast comer of Sapulpa has been
approved by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development,
according to a HUD spokesman.
The city will receive 9500,000 to
conduct rehabilitation projects on
homes, streets and sewers during the
first year of the program. The HUD
grant package should total $2 million
for the three-year life of the program.
The area targeted for the
rehabilitation is bound
Perkins, on
north by Hill and on the west by
Mission.
The current HUD program is similar
to a program that has just been com-
pleted in the northwest quadrent of the
city. More than $1.5 million in HUD
funds were invested in improvements
to the Tiger Neighborhood project.
The city plans to begin accepting
applications from those interested in
Recollections
the housing rehabilitation project
within the next week to 10 days, ac-
cording to City Manager Dale Block.
During the next three years, the city
hopes to fund the rehabilitation of
between 100 and 135 homes in the target
area.
To be eligible to be included in the
program, city residents must live in the
target area and be in the low to
moderate income bracket.
For more information on the housing
rehabilitation grants, contact the
Sapulpa city offices.
Despite the fact that Sapulpa has
would not impact too severely on HUD
programs.
“I don’t think anybody has a handle
on what will happen, but community
development programs are almost a
prototype of what the President thinks
of as proper,” Block said. “I think it
will be treated possibly a little better
than other programs. It does seem to
meet a lot of the quidelines the
President is interested in.”
The continued support from HUD
programs has had a signifient impact
on the city of Sapulpa in the past five
years, Block indicated.
performance meets HUD approval and side °* * “Hhon that have gone toward
that funds for the program remain lrnproving the housing stock of the
available. dty-
Sapulpa officials, who are beginning He noted those funds had also he®0
their sixth year of funding from HUD Spent on imProvin8 streets, storm and
are confident that program per- ^^ sewers and water Unes.
formance will be acceptable. 11 s d,“‘cdt to know how we would
Block also expressed hope that the have handled these needs without our
Reagan administration budget cuts continued partnership with the federal
government,” Block said.
Commissioner
Long-time city resident a^TtTpTmi
has seen ‘everything’ guilty to fraud
Jones Market
is burglarized
one more time
For the second time in four weeks,
Jones Super Market on W. Dewey was
burglarized between closing time
Friday night and the time of reopening
early Saturday morning, according to a
police report.
The break-in was discovered at 8 a.m.
Saturday by the store’s butcher, Chet
Haley. The store was burglarized
during the same period of time in the
initial incident on June 16-17.
Unidentified burglars entered the
business through the roof on both oc-
casions.
City police officer Jeff Gilliland said
it appeared that the burglars tried
unsuccessfully to leave through the easl
door before finally breaking the locks
on the west door to escape with the
stolen change and merchandise.
The inventory of stolen items had not
been completed at press time Saturday,
but some of the items identified as
missing were: a black and white por-
table television set valued at $400,
approximately 170 cartons of cigarettes
valued at approximately $1,045.50, one
radio with an estimated value of $50, $75
in change from the registers, and two
hinges worth about $18.
The damage to the roof was
estimated at $200, the doors suffered
approximately $150 damage, and the
broken locks were valued at $40, ac-
cording to the report.
In the June burglary, thieves
reportedly took approximately $200 in
change from one of the registers, about
300 pounds of top choice meat, and 171
cartons of cigarettes.
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A YOUNG GI.F.NPOOI. BOY is intent on the parade that highlighted the
Black Gold Days festivities in Glenpool Saturday
“When you’ve been in business 55
years and your 85 years old it’s time to
slow down."
That’s the way life is now for Lon T.
Jackson. Slowed down.
Jackson, who is the head of Lon T.
Jackson Insurance, Real Estate and
Loans, has seen many things over the
years in Sapulpa. Everything from “the
oil boom to a baseball strike.”
Jackson came to Sapulpa in 1917 and
64 years later things are still looking up.
“I’ve seen just about everything," he
states. Everything from slow, easy
peaceful times to skyrocketing in-
flation. And Jackson has an opinion on
it.
“When 1 came here I started out at
$85 a month,” he starts. "Now that was
a month, not a week, but a month. And
now I have to pay $2,000 bills. It’s
ridiculous at the expenses that I have
now."
But don't get the man wrong. He isn’t
complaining, he’s just telling it the way
it is.
Jackson was born in RusselviUe,
Tennessee, a small fanning community
that “is east of Morristown, which is
east of Knoxville.”
Jackson developed his strong
business since at an early age as he
helped his mother and father work in
the family’s general store.
“There was no package stuff,”
Jackson states. “Everything was loose.
If someone wanted crackers you had to
take each one out and weigh them.
There wasn’t any of this package or can
stuff.’’
And cash wasn’t too plentiful then
either. The family store was run on a
barter system.
Then at the age of 21 it was time for
something different and Jackson
headed for Sapulpa.
"There was a saying back then and it
was ‘go west young man,”’ says
Jackson. "Well, this is as far as I got.”
Jackson came to Sapulpa because an
old hometown friend asked him to come
“out west."
When Jackson first arrived in
Sapulpa he saw a great oil boom town
and other unique sights.
“It was pretty active. The oil
business was booming and there were
lots of Indians. The street was full of
them.” When Jackson hit town the
eastern section of the state was still
primarily Indian land, although Indian
territory and Oklahoma territory had
combined to make the state of
Oklahoma.
And now he remembers how times
have changed. “We have lots of things
now that we didn’t have back when I
first came here. And of course we had
things back then that we don’t have
now.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) — A county
commissioner who resigned and turned
over $15,000 to his county also has
agreed to plead guilty to a federal
charge in the massive probe into county
government corruption, his attorney
said.
Cimarron County Commissioner Bill
Murdock of Felt resigned earlier this
week, effective Aug. 1, and gave the
county treasurer a $15,000 check
representing money he said he obtained
while in office.
His attorney, James Linn of
Oklahoma City, said Friday Murdock
has agreed to testify for federal
authorities and plead guilty to a charge
of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and
tax evasion.
The agreement is the standard plea
arrangement federal agents offered to
people implicated in the probe.
Murdock declined comment.
Linn said Murdock worked out the
agreement two months ago with federal
authorities. Linn said his client regrets
his actions and wanted to do anything
necessary to straighten out the matter.
The lengthy federal investigation
probed allegations of kickbacks county
commissioners received from
materials suppliers. Federal agents
also uncovered commissioners and
suppliers who would concoct phony
purchase orders, pay for non-existent
supplies with county funds and split the
proceeds.
Officials warning Poles
not to expect too much
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - A Polish
official warned Saturday that although
the extraordinary Communist Party
Congress convening Tuesday is ex-
pected to approve landmark reforms
spurring the liberalization of Poland,
Poles must not hope for miracles.
“The expectations of the people are
greater than what the congress can
accomplish,” Jerzy Majka, delegate to
the congress, told a news conference.
“People think that shleves will be
filled right after the congress is over,"
he said, referring to the cronic food
shortages that have led to spreading
labor protests and warning strikes over
the past several days.
“We think it is impossible, because
miracles will not happen. We can only
produce a program that will guarantee
improvement of the situation and stop
its deterioration,” Majka said.
Frustration at the lack of foodstuffs
led to a “hunger march" and a series of
other protests during the past week.
More protests are set for next week.
In other labor and political disputes,
workers this week grounded the state
airlines and paralyzed docks along the
Baltic Coast. Going against labor
leader Lech Walesa's advice, the
Independent Solidarity labor coalition
nas also threatened strikes to protest
the arrest of three anticommunist
dissidents.
“We feel the arrests, plus the
government’s appointment of a general
to run the airline, are provocations,” a
Solidarity official said
Walesa and others have warned the
protests come at an especially bad time
for Poland, when its leadership is
trying to prove to the Soviet Union that
it has things under control.
The party congress opening Tuesday
is regarded as especially crucial
because it is expected to test Moscow’s
patience even further by approving far-
reaching reforms and giving the go-
ahead to prosecute former Prime
Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz and other
high-ranking officials for abuse of
power, corruption and political
mistakes.
The congress is scheduled to end
Friday but Majka indicated it might
run longer. 'The congress will go on
until it is over,” he said.
It will approve a new party statute
and a program containing reforms such
as limiting officials to two terms in
office and proceedures to put future
governments to the test of confidence
votes.
It also will issue a document on
iolands economic crisis, suggesting
ways out of it, and “will approve an
appeal to the nation in which the party
will say just what are its targets and its
strivings," Majka said.
Incidentally
Happy birthday to Glenda Raines
who celebrated her birthday Saturday
... The G.E.D. class at Vo-Tech has
room for more students. The class
meets Wednesday and Friday mor-
nings from 9 a m. to 12 noon ...' Happy
birthday to Debra Carlton ... Three
black and white house broken kittens
are for giveaway at 245-1973 or 245-1460
... Happy Birthday to Terrie Bowman
who celebrated Saturday ... The people
at 321-5303 have kittens for giveaway
Happy birthday to Rev. John Lyle at
the Wesley Methodist Church ... Happy
birthday to Joy Hammock who is 14
years old The Herald invites Jack
McIntosh, 1815 S. Oklahoma St. to see
The Fox and the Hound at ti e Creek
Hills Twin.
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