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Vol 84/No. 262.10 Pages
Sapulpa. Oklahoma
Show set to kick in second curbside recycling route
By MATTHEW B. BROADDLS said ^
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Wednesday
Scripture Thought:
Teach us to number our days, anght
that we may gam a heart ot wisdom.
—Psalm 90:12
New International Version
It’s your day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY to
Baylea Smith, 9; Tricia Pickering;
Gentry Long, 8; Tommy Mikles. 24;
Ben Anson, 10; and Brittany
Leathers. 12.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to
Latisha Stephens, 16
If you want to wlah aomaone a happy
birthday or annlvaraary, call 224-5185
by 9 a.m.
Incidentally
■ The state Vital Records Office
will remain open until 6:30 p.m. each
Thursday evening in August.
The office is located on the first
floor of the State Department of Health,
1000 N.E. 10th St.. Oklahoma City.
Visitor parking is available.
To obtain a copy of a birth certifi-
cate, applicants will need to provide a
date of birth, place of birth, parents'
names and furnish a photo ID. There is
a $5 search fee for each certified copy
of a birth certificate.
Persons may also obtain copies of
needed death certificates. Applicants
must provide the person's name, date
and place of death There is a $10
search fee for each certified copy of a
death certificate.
mentally conscious,” Beil said. •‘Everyone really
seems to enjoy the service."
Fees from the recycling project help to sup-
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News Briefs
Some prices too low
even for Wal-Mart
ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — Some-
times a price can be too low even
for Wal-Mart
Police arrested a man who was
caughi at a Wal-Mart Supercenter
allegedly slapping his own bar ■
codes on cans of baby formula.
lowering the price to $1.89 on cans
that go for between $10 and $20,
said Detective Stephen Charles.
A search warrant revealed
$15,000 worth of formula — an
estimated 1,000 cans — in a van
belonging to the suspect. Police
identified the man as Brahim
Abdel-Vctah
The cans in the van were in bags
from different stores, with receipts
from Indiana. Kentucky and Ohio,
according to a police report.
Wal-Mart employees notified
police when the man allegedly pur-
chased formula at a deep discount.
Abdel-Vctah, who was arrested
Sunday, was being held on a felony
theft charge in the Benton County
Jail on Tuesday awaiting a bond
hearing.
"This is one of the strangest
things I’ve dealt with," Charles
said.
Ohio bank presiden
foils robbery attempt in
WORTHINGTON. Ohio (AP) —
Bank president Robert Patrella did-
n't bank on police during an
attempted robbery. He foiled it by
himself
The head of the Guernsey Bank
in this Columbus suburb stopped a
robbery Monday by hitting the sus-
pect with a chair, then chasing the
man out the door.
“My employees think it was a
pretty stupid thing to do, and
maybe in the final analysis it was.
But this guy’s in jail .. and I am
very happy about that,” Patrella
said.
Patrella said he came out of his
office when he heard a teller
scream.
“I grabbed this chair and
smashed it into him. and he and I
and the chair went out the door.”
Patrella said.
The suspect ran across the park-
ing lot into a getaway car, but
Patrella managed to get (Ik car's
license plate.
Officers arrested the suspect and
the car's driver about an hour later
at a nearby apartment building,
said Worthington police Capt. M.E.
Mauger.
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New non-profit group
readies for 5th benefit
By LOKKIE J. QUINNELLY
Herald Managing Editor
A group of Sapulpans who joined
forces five years ago to raise funds for
assistance for HIV/AIDS victims have
incorporated into a non-profit organiza-
tion
SAVE — Sapulpa AIDS Volunteer
Events — will be the sponsor for this
year's RAIN — Regional AIDS Inter-
faith Network — benefit in Sapulpa.
The 5th annual dinner and auction is
planned for 6:30 p.m. Sept. I at the
home of Yvonne and Tom Allen
“This new organization will enable
Sapulpans to not only contribute their
money to RAIN, but also to Tulsa
CARES and the St. Joseph House,"
Mrs Allen said.
In the past, 100 percent of the pro-
ceeds raised through the Sapulpa bene
fit were contributed to RAIN, a figure
that now approaches $100,000. RAIN
team volunteers from Sapulpa. howev-
er, have become acquainted with Tulsa
CARES — Center for AIDS Resources
and Education — and the St Joseph
House, a home for people who have no
family or friends to help them through
the dymg process, sponsored by the
Roman Catholic Church.
, "SAVE is a group of the same peo-
ple who have been having a dinner and
auction dunng Labor Day weekend for
the past few years." Mrs. Allen said.
For tickets
Tickets lor the 5th Annual Dinner
and Auction, sponsored by SAVE,
slated for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1, are $25
per person. Tickets include a meal,
entertainment and the auction.
For information, call Yvonne Allen
at 224-0354.
"This will just allow for them to donate
to St Joseph house and Tulsa CARES
as well and receive the tax credit
SAVE is a 501 (c) 3 organization.
Contributions to the organization —
including tickets for the dinner and auc-
tion and items donated for the auction
— are tax deductible.
Food, labor and auction items for
the annual fund-raiser are donated. Mrs
Allen said. All proceeds go to the char-
ities.
The first four dinner/auction events
raised approximately $75,000.
RAIN is a non-profit organization
with a two-fold purpose: to provide
education, information and seminars on
HIV and AIDS to hum-based commu-
nities, schools and the public in general
and to provide direct care and direct
services to people living with HIV and
See ■ SAVE BENEFIT. Page 10
Tourism wants
Cooling off
Cousins Kayla Beard and David Barlow cod off in Keystone Lake during a
family reunion. Temperatures in Green Country are expected to drop toniaht as
a cod front moves in with storms from Kansas.
Four schools facing possible loss of accreditation
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The ed schools lose state funding anH uu»i. r^r^n ______i u... c___..
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
state Board of Education has cited four
schools for not meeting state standards,
throwing their accreditation statuses
into jeopardy.
The board on Tuesday granted
“accredited with probation” to Boynton
Elementary in Muskogee County;
Pleasant Grove Elementary in Seminole
County, Madison Middle School in
Tulsa and Monroe Middle School in
Tulsa.
Without improvement, the next step
for these schools would be a loss of
accreditation, officials said. Unaccredit-
Body of second
fisherman found
at Keystone Lake
MANN FORD (AP) — Farley Bro-
wn saw panic on the faces of three men
and a boy whose boat capsized after
being swept into the swirling waters of
the Keystone Lake dam.
They started throwing lifejackets to
each other," said Brown, who was fish-
ing downstream from the dam Monday
afternoon when the accident happened
"I was worried about them. I didn’t
think any of them would make it."
The 9-year-old boy and a 21-year-
old man survived the accident without
injury. But on Tuesday, searchers
recovered the body of one of two other
men who drowned.
The body of Sieve Moody. 28, a
Tulsa car salesman, was found down-
stream from the dam about 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Oklahoma Lake Patrol Lt.
Jim West said.
Authorities had recovered the body
of James Wheery. 37, of Oklahoma
City shortly after the 2 p.m. Monday
boating accident
The four were on an aluminum fish-
ing boat in a "safe zone” just below the
Keystone Dam when they pulled up
anchor and were swept into the cuirent
of the floodgates, he said They were
unable to start their engine, and the
boat capsized.
Brown said he called 911 on his cel-
lular telephone to report the accident.
Wheery's young son swam ashore.
The 21-year-old, whose identity was
not released, was carried under the
cd schools lose state funding and usual- ready have received help from state
ly are closed, state schools Supenntcn- education officials, particularly if the
dent Saml> Garrett said. problem is low test scores. Travis said
Students at the schools have had poor Schools arc placed on the "high-chal-
test scores, which also recently landed lenge” list after three consecutive years
them on the state s "high-challenge” of poor scores. Schools also can be
Officials at the schools could not be
immediately reached for comment.
"When a school is put on probation,
they’re in a pretty bad situation," said
Bob Travis, a regional accreditation
officer for the state Education Depart-
ment.
Most schools in that category al-
22 schools in 17 districts and one pri-
vate school were "accredited with
warning''
Nearly all of those schools were
placed on the low-performing list
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placed on probation for repeating defi- some districts also were cited for
cicncies and consistently or deliberately employing teachers who lacked proper
violating regulations Districts with a credentials or endorsements, failing to
school on probation also are put on pro- submit state-mandated reports or not
conducting required fire chills.
More than 500 public school dis- Schools in 42 districts were "accred-
tncts, private schools and vocational-
technical schools received accreditation
with no deficiencies, Garrett said, but Se® ® SCHOOLS, Page 10
LONE WOLF(AP) — State Tourism
Director Jane Jayroe is asking the coo-
tractor on the long overdue Quartz
Mountain Lodge for a completion date
and says the state will keep asking far •
date until it gets an answer.
The project is 10 months overdue.
The latest deadline was Aug. 1. “But
we do not believe that’s possible any-
more," Jayroe said.
The annual state Arts Institute has
been canceled again as have other
bookings for the lodge at the Quartz
Mountain State Park in southwestern
Oklahoma. The old lodge was
destroyed by fire in 1995.
Dennis Carroll, chief operating offi-
cer of DiCarlo Construction Group in
Kansas City, Mo., and president of
Di Carlo South in Houston, said there
has been too much focus on time pre-
dictions on the project. “I think that
what we have to do is focus on over-
coming things that have occurred and
obviously have a project done right.”
he said.
Jayroe said the company is in the
default phase of the contract and could
be penalized for each day it works past
the agreed deadline The fees could
range from $262 to $855 a day and as
high as $1,045 a day during the height
of the tourism season. The figure will
be determined when the project is com-
plete.
Carrol! said his company is being
blamed and targeted for the serious
delay. “And we think some of it is
unfair and unfounded," he said
Jayroe said the original contract
details and architectural designs were
clear. She said changes have been made
but not in major ways.
Carroll said some details weren’t
clarified in the contract drawings. “I
have had to have over 300 clarifica-
tions of design related issues." he said.
He said some of the long delays and
impacts on the project resulted from the
design issues.
“I think it was extremely specific,"
See ■ LODGE, Page 10
Sprucing up
industrial areas
Hershell Williams hoes the ground
around Ihe flowers he planted around
the Up With Trees sign in front of Farm-
ers Feed Store on Main Street In Sapul-
pa. Williams has planted 10 different
varieties of flowers and several rose
bushes along the roadway.
Htntt Photo by S I WAlMOf
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Half of GOP delegates say abortion-rights veep OK
WASHINGTON I API Mulf lK» to ikfa >L. a .am ... ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Half the delegates to the
Republican National Convention are giving George
W. Bush their blessing to tap an abortion-rights sup-
porter as his running mate, according to interviews by
The Associated Press.
The AP questionnaire found that 49 percent of the
GOP delegates said they could support such a vice
presidential nominee who backs legalized abortion.
One out of every five delegates, or 22 percent, said
they could not back such a candidate for Bush, who
opposes the procedure. About 15 percent said they did
not know, and nearly as many delegates did not
respond to the question.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who supports abor-
tion rights, was the top vice presidential pick among
Republican delegates, while former presidential can-
didate Elizabeth Dole, who opposes abortion, trailed
him by a handful of votes Ohio Rep John Kasich.
retired Gen. Colin Powell and former Bush opponent
Sen. John McCain rounded out the top five.
,, Atkins. a Republican delegate from Rock
Hill. S.C.. said he would tike to see Oklahoma Gov.
Frank Keating as the next vice president, in part
because of his anti-abortion stance. But, Atkins said he
would support whomever Bush picks as his running
mate— even if that person backs the right to have an
abortion.
I GOP DELEGATES, Page 10
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