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■ AIR BAGS
Couple found shot on county road
hp.n! *, LAVASSKK ('V>) ~ A C,HJP|C recovered from gunshot wounds after
g orced to stnp and then almost run over by their own car. authorities said.
__ _ "/,ll|arr> Sheppard and Gwendolynn Flute picked up an
JPParem hitchhiker in Muskogee who then pulled out a
tj 1411,15 '11,1 af*d ordered the couple to drive to Wagoner County
in eastern Oklahoma. Sheriff Rudy Bnggs said.
. a country mad near Tullahassee. the man made Shep-
panl and Flute gel nut oft the car and take off their clothes. He tried to run them
over and then fired shots as the couple fled.
Sheppard. 36. was shot in the shoulder and the leg. He was treated and
re eased from a hospital Thursday afternoon. Flute. 32. was listed in critical con-
dition after being shot in the hack. Bnggs said
A motorist found the naked couple walking down 51 Highway B about 5 a m
Inursday. The car was later found near a housing unit in Muskogee
No one was immediately arrested.
Man acquitted of rape
TULSA (API — A Tulsa County jury deliberated four hours before acquit
tinga man who was charged with raping a mentally disabled teen ager.
The jury Thursday cleared Robbie Leon Lee. 24. of first-degree rape, rape by
instrumentation and forcible oral sodomy, all felonies.
Lee was charged with raping a 16-year-old girl on May 3. 1999 at the Tulsa
apartment complex where she lived and where he had been hired as a mainte-
nance worker
District Judge Jesse Hams ordered Ire released after about 10 1/2 months in
City of Moore to get new hospital
MOORE (AP) Plans are in the works to build a 42-bed hospital in Mix.re
I , i Mly0[G,e.?n f*1' unve,lcd an architect's drawing Hiurvlav of the hospi
.’1l7lft'h *!n ,ndude emergency and diagnostic services, a women’s center
irthing suites, three surgical units and 33 inpatient rooms.
About 20 physicians from Moore. Norman and south Oklahoma City have
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The hospital is expected to employ 300 to 350 staff members Completion is
expected sometime late next summer.
Construction is expected to begin in three or four months
. Moore has been without a hospital since 1993
[ Sentencing set in pyramid scheme
S IILWELL <AP( — Sentencing is scheduled July 19 for live Adair County
residents who pleaded no contest to felony charges stemming from an alleged
pyramid scheme
Those who pleaded Thursday are Ronald Abels. Jeny Carte. William Uwis
and Barbara Rose, all of Westville. and Walts Police Commissioner Gary Ward
rain, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trtx>per.
Lach defendant faces up to 10 years in prison and a $IO,<xio fine on each of
two counts: promoting a pyramid scheme and conspiracy to promote a pyramid
Hie 1998 indictment involved an organization known as People Helping
People or I nends Helping Friends.
( Many participants borrowed money or mortgaged property to buy in. author-
IVo dead in shooting at store
ADA (AP) — The owner of an Ada surplus store was being held today in
thurvlav s shooting deaths of two store managers.
■ Ronnie 1. W hitehead, 42. of Ada was arrested a short distance aw jy after the
3:15 p.m shooting, police Maj Rick Carson said
The victims were identified as J R Atwood, 55. and his wife, Betty Atwood
Officers responding to a call at the Crazy Comer Surplus store found the bod
res of the Atwoods inside Ifiere were about 10 other people in the store at (he
time of the shtxxing, Carson said
Assistant District Attorney Chris Ross said at least seven people witnessed
the shooting.
W itnesses said the sfxxiter walked into the store and confronted the Atwixxls
about money he thought had been embezzled
Words were exchanged and J R Atwood and Whitehead started fighting, wit-
| nesses said
J R Atwtxxl was shot three times, including once in die head His wife was
shot in the left arm and twice in the chest
Police found Whitehead hiding in a woman’s storage shed. A .38-caliber
handgun was recovered
Dan Atwood described his uncle. J R Atwtxxi. as a nice guy.
The family is all shocked right now. very much so," he said.
One killed, six hurt in bus crash
VF.RDEN (AP) Die driver of a car was killed and six students on a school
riT SU ,ere<J min°r mJunes ln a ,raffic accident at a foggy rural Grady County
Hie Oklahoma Highway Patrol identified the man killed in the Thursday
morning accident as Jerry Dwayne Smith. 19. of Verden The injured students,
aged eight to 17, were treated and released at Grady Memorial Hospital. They
complained of neck, back and arm injuries.
Dx: patrol said Smith died when the car he was driving failed to slop at a stop
sign and was struck in the side by the school bus just before 8 a m
Lleven students were on the bus, said Verden Superintendent Leonard Garri-
son. The school bus driver, who was not injured, was wearing a seat belt.
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abouts are unknown.
Phe Howdy in dispute is stored in a
hank sate deposit box in the meantime,
but the Rose family won’t say where.
Museum attorney Stuart Rosen
warned that the Rose family is planning
to sell the doll, which has been
appraised al $50,000. At the Detroit
museum, which contains more than 850
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characters from Doodyville, U S A.
were a regular pan of the lives of mil-
lions of baby boomers
Buffalo Bob would shout, "Say,
kids, whal time is itT’ and the Peanut
Gallery the kiddie studio audience
— would scream: “It’s Howdy Doody
Rufus Rose and his wife, Margaret.
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JTXJ*"*Y •«* N“C f? W «■* «- «e S. bequeathed ,»
.7 ?M“,“ ,lf 1* W0 to the SmitlKofiian Insiuutiun
show. Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy, Rose died in 1975.
■ECONOMY
by air bags in low-speed crashes were
killed by cut-rate air bags that manu-
facturers installed years ago to save
money," safety group Public Citizen
said in a statement criticizing the rule
Technology has existed for years to
ensure that air bags do not injure
smaller-statured people in low-speed
crashes, but few manufacturers used
if.”
Auto officials dispute that it is a
matter of cost, saying customers
demand safer products
During a phase-in period between
Sept I, 2003, and Aug. 31, 2006,
vehicles will be required to meet
slow the speeding economy.
Die 340,000 jobs added to business
payrolls in Apnl was stronger than the
3I5,(XM) jobs many analysts expected.
The hiring of 73.000 temporary cen-
sus workers was a big factor in boosting
payrolls, government analysts said
Excluding the census hiring, employ-
ment winild have grown by a more
nxxlest 267.(XX), those analysis said
Many economists also believed that
the late Easter holiday was a factor in
fxxistmg job growth by pushing some
hiring, mostly retail, into Apnl.
In March, a whopping 458.(XX)jobs
were created — more than the govern-
ment previously estimated — helped
along by a longer than normal survey
peruxl that allowed more jobs to be
counted and a big burst in hiring for the
census.
Average hourly earnings in Apnl
rose tw ice as fast as many analysis were
predicting. Average hourly earning
went up by 0.4 percent to $13.64. Many
analysts were forecasting a 0.2 percent
rise In Match, wages grew by 0.3 per-
cent. slightly less than the government
reported one month ago.
W hile strong job and wage growth is
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good for workers, economists and
members of the Federal Reserve worry
that the combination might worsen
inflation. Their shared concern:
employers scrambling to find scarce
workers, recruit them with big boosts in
wages and benefits, increased costs that
could be passed along to consumers as
higher prices.
On Thursday, the government
reported that unit labor costs, a sign of
inflation pressures, rose a bigger-than-
expected 1.8 percent in the first three
months of this year, while workers' pro-
ductivity slowed.
And. a survey by the Federal
Reserve released Wednesday said
employers, trying to attract scarce
workers in March and early Apnl, were
under increasing pressure to raise
wages, even though consumer prices,
for the most part, were well-behaved.
In Apnl. the service sector, the dri-
ving force of job creation in the United
States, led the way in job growth as
38(),(XX) workers were hired.
Retailers added 119.000 jobs with
most of the gain in hiring at bars and
restaurants. Employment also rose sub-
stantially at food stores.
Business services added 121.fX)jobs
with employment al hotels and other
lodging places growing considerably
for the second straight month.
Even manufacturing, which lost
around 248,000 jobs last year, crewed
jobs in Apnl. adding II.(XX) workers
requirements for reducing air bag
risks, either by automatically turning
oft ft** a'f bag in the presence of
young children or deploying the air
bag in a manner much less likely to
cause serious or fatal injury, officials
said.
During a second phase-in from
Sept 1. 2007, to Aug 31, 2010, the
maximum test speed for belted aver-
age-size dummies will increase front
30 mph to 35 mph
Transportation officials say the rule
could change after a peru xl of public
comment and reaction to the slower-
speed test.
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quired to pay an additional $4 per day
to underwrite the cost of meals. Stu-
dents who qualify for the Federal Free
or Reduced Schixil Nutrition Program
attended extended-day kindergarten
free.
Pitts and a study committee of
teachers and administrators met with
elementary teachers in the district. Par-
ent surveys also were mailed or sent
home with students to help administra-
tors determine how many students
would participate in all day kinder-
garten.
Several teachers and parents in the
district have expressed real interest in
such a program, Pitts said
Working parents were especially
interested, he said.
Marilyn Musgrove, a teacher at
Woodlawn Elementary, said by length-
ening the amount of time teachers
spend with kindergarten students, there
will be more time to engage the stu-
dents in educational activities.
"With only a few hours in the morn-
ing or aftenuxin, we spend most of our
time asking the students to hurry here
and there," Musgrove said.
Oakridge principal Barbara Martin,
who has worked the last couple of years
studying the pros and cons of all-day
kindergarten, provided a list of what
the district would need to provide the
program.
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