Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 76, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1989 Page: 1 of 12
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Sapulpa Daily
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Vol. 75—No.14—12 Pages
A Park Newspaper
Member of The Auociated Press
Sapulpa, Okla. 74066
224-51S5
Friday
September 29, 1989
Today
Incidentally
Birthday greetings to Lynn
Irby, Viola Shelton, George
Welns, Elizabeth Herrington
and Bob Ruhl... Tori Brown,
Curtiss Carter, Joy Kordis and
Dauane Raby Sr. will celebrate
Saturday... A dog and two cats
will be given away at 227-3360.
Weather ,,
Tonight: Cool and cloudy with a
low near 48.
Saturday: Cool in the morning,
warming by afternoon. High near
82 and a low around 50.
Sunday through Tuesday:
Continued cool and cloudy.
Statewide: Possible scattered rain
showers in isolated areas.
Index
Astro-graph..........................9
Bridge.................................11
Celebrity Cipher...................9
Classifieds....................10-11
Comics.................................9
Crossword Puzzle.................9
Dear Abby..........................11
Deaths..................................2
Lifestyles..............................3
L.M. Boyd............................4
Names in the News.............11
Opinion................................4
Public Records.....................2
Religion............................5-6
Social Calendar....................3
Sports...............................7-8
flocks...................................2
Today in History..................4
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Suicide death
By the Herald StalT
The death of a 42-year-old
Kellyville man Thursday has been
ruled a suicide, according to Creek
County Deputy Ron Powers.
He said Larry Wayne Earl, 42,
Kellyville, was found about 6:30
p.m. Thursday in a rural area south
of Heybum Lake shot once with a
12-guage shotgun.
Powers said officers had been
looking for Earl since family
members reported he had not
shown up for work Thursday and
had missed an appointment Thurs-
day morning.
Building permits
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By the Herald Staff
Sapulpa building permits soared to
$435,500 in September — an increase
of $428,500 over the same period last
year.
Sapulpa Building Inspector Ken
Hamilton said he isn’t sure what
caused the increase. Of the eight,
seven permits were for residential
construction, and Hamilton speculated
the decline in interest rates could have
stimulated the projects.
Five of the permits were for new
residences, two were for additions to
existing residences. The other was for
the demolition of a vacant residence,
according to Hamilton.
Hamilton said this is the first time in
his five years as building inspector that
so many permits have been issued in
September.
During September 1988, only three
residential permits and one commer-
cial permit were issued for a total of
$7,000 worth of construction.
Permits issued this month included:
—$95,000 to Beal Company for
construction of a 2,529-square-fool
home at 7515 Briarridge Lane.
—$95,000 toD+D Custom Homes for
a 2,364-square-foot residence at 1021
Rain tree Circle.
—$62,000 to D+D Custom Homes for
a 1,920-square-fool residence at 2905
S. Main.
—$90,000 to D+D Custom Homes for
a 2,300-square-foot residence at 1619
Kingsway.
—$85,000 to Hersh Inc to build a
2,000-square-fool residence at 1210
Luker Lane.
—$1,500 to Larry Carlock for a
276-square-foot addition to a resi-
dence at 818 N. Ross.
—$2,000 to Jim Bracken for a
208-square-foot addition to a resi-
dence at 703 S. Bixby.
—$5,000 for the demolition of a house
at 17 N. Walnut.
Robbery suspect
enters guilty plea
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Remedy for radios
City seeks way to replace police radio system
. _ _ • • * „ni/l iU» rant
Gypsy rated
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
The state Board of Education has
released a list of 32 Oklahoma
schools that consistently do poorly
on standardized tests. The list
includes only one Creek County
school — Gypsy Elementary.
The schools located in 15 coun-
ties include 24 elementaries, two
middle schools and six high
schools. Oklahoma County has 10
elementaries and one high school
on the list. Tulsa County has two
middle schools and one high
school.
Students at the schools have
scored in the bottom 25 percent of
Oklahoma students and below the
national average on the Metropoli-
tan Achievement Tests during the
past three years.
Under a recently passed state
law, the state board has until Nov.
1 to make recommendations to the
Legislature on how to improve
student performance in the at-risk
schools.
Recommendations could
include special funding or handing
over operation of the schools to
the state Department of Education.
Economic gains
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government’s chief economic
forecasting gauge rose 0.3 percent
in August, its second consecutive
advance, indicating continued
growth in the months ahead, the
Commerce Department reported
today.
The increase in the Index of
Leading Indicators, designed to
foretell economic activity six to
nine months into the future,
followed a 0.1 percent gain in
July. It declined 0.1 percent in
June.
Today’s index reinforced recent
government and private industry
reports indicating that the nation’s
longest peacetime economic
expansion will reach its seventh
birthday in December.
By DEBORAH LARGE
Herald Senior Newswrlter
City officials are planning to pick
up where the Sept. 19 city bond issue
left off.
City Manager Roger Miner said the
main goal is to improve the police
department’s radio system.
Voters defeated the portion of the
bond issue that would purchase a radio
system for the police department and
construct additional space at the
facility.
Voters also rejected building a
sports complex at Wickham Road,
installing irrigation at the golf course
and renovating the senior citizens
center.
Miner said city officials are concen-
trating on improving police radio
communications. He said it is espe-
cially important since voters approved
getting a radio system for the fire
department.
The city is currently looking at two
options for a police radio system.
Miner said the first option is a lease
purchase agreement for a
800-megahertz system, the same
system asked on the bond issue.
Chief of Police Ron Sole said the
lease-purchase plan would be the most
logical way to get a new radio system.
If the city can afford a lease-
purchase, payments would be made to
the company providing the radios,
Sole said.
The cost of a new system in March
was $183,000, but Sole said the figure
probably will be slightly higher now.
“We really don’t know if it will be
more or less than what was asked of
voters. It may be in the $200,000
range, but we just can’t tell,” Sole said.
“We should get more information on
the figures next week and review it
with the radio committee.”
Members of the radio committee are
Miner, Sole, commissioners JaElla
Vanatta, Chris Carlton and Patrolman
Steve Tolliver.
Miner said the second option is
updating the police department’s
present system.
Sole said updating the present
system would not be a great
improvement.
“The biggest problem I see is that it
would be putting a lot of money into an
obsolete system,” Sole said. “We can’t
even trade it in.”
Sole said emergency services
nationwide are doing away with the
police band frequency and going to the
higher 800-megahertz (mgh) band.
He said a new system would make
all emergency services throughout the
area, state and country uniform.
The Sand Springs City Council
recently approved $201,180 to buy a
800-mcgahertz radio system for its fire
and police departments.
The new system will become part of
a regional effort to create a communi-
cation system with law and fire offi-
cials in the Tulsa area.
By the Herald StafT
A woman charged with taking prop-
erty from a Sapulpa residence pleaded
guilty Thursday to grand larceny and
knowingly concealing stolen property
in Creek County District Court.
Anna May Sevall was sentenced to
four years on each charge to run
concurrently.
Prior to her guilty plea, testimony
was heard by a jury Wednesday
afternoon.
According to reports, Sevall went to
her former Sapulpa residence on June
21, 1988, where Dena Moore was
living with h^ children,
Sevall said she went to the residence
to retrieve items she left when she
moved out a few weeks earlier. When
she could not find the items, she began
taking things from the residence that
belonged to Moore. Sevall said she
planned to keep them until her proper-
ty was returned.
Police later discovered Moore’s
property in Sevan’s vehicle that was
parked at a local pawn shop.
Moore testified that Sevall was
angry when she arrived. Moore said
she told Sevall that she knew nothing
about the missing property when
Sevall arrived at her house.
Capital gains OK’d
Army mortar claims two lives
a day after Fort Sill tragedy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight
over President Bush’s cut in the capital
gains tax moves quickly to the Senate
and into electoral politics following
the president’s hard-fought victory in
the House.
A high-profile Democratic effort to
derail the tax break, which party lead-
ers called a giveaway to the rich, was
beaten 239-190 on Thursday. The
Democratic alternative contained a tax
increase on the wealthy, and 64 Demo-
crats defected to the president’s side.
Senate Finance Committee Chair-
man Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said
Bush’s House victory “wasn’t unex-
pected” but that he would try to buck
Bush with an alternative of his own
when his committee meets next week.
Bentsen, a longtime supporter of
special tax treatment for capital gains
earnings, says the nation can't afford
to give away too many new tax breaks
with federal deficits running at $130
billion a year.
However, others in the Senate were
certain to push for the capital gains cut.
The Bentsen plan would restore
universally deductible Individual
Retirement Accounts, an idea the
House Democrats’ proposal also
embraced. But his plan doesn't
include their proposal to raise income
taxes on the wealthy, who now pay a
lower marginal rate than the upper
middle class.
Setting a lower tax rate for capital
gains, which Bush promised in his
presidential campaign, would reverse
what was considered a major achieve-
ment of the 1986 tax overhaul
supported by President Reagan —
taxing earned and unearned income at
the same rate.
The Bush plan approved Thursday
as part of a huge, 2,000-pagc budget
bill would reduce the maximum tax
rate on capital gains from 33 percent to
19.6 percent for the next 27 months.
After that, the rale would rise to 28
percent, but taxes would not be paid on
earnings attributable to inflation.
FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) —
The Army suspended the firing of
mortars at Fort Stewart while it deter-
mines what caused the explosion that
killed two soldiers handling one of the
weapons.
Officials from the Army Safety
Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., were
investigating Thursday’s accident in
Georgia and another accident the day
before at Fort Sill, Okla., where an
errant artillery shell killed three
soldiers and wounded 24.
There was no relationship between
the accidents, which involved diffe-
rent types of weapons, said Lt. Colonel
Herbert Blanks, public affairs officer
for the safety center.
The 4.2-inch mortar that exploded
could have been faulty, or one of the
victims might have made an error
setting the timing fuse on the device.
said Maj. Donald W. Keeling, a Fort
Stewart spokesman.
A mortar is a short-barreled cannon
that can be fired from a position on the
ground or from fittings aboard a vehi-
cle Its shell contains shrapnel.
During training exercises, Keeling
said, mortar tubes are loaded by two-
person teams.
One team member sights the
weapon and the other loads the explo-
sive propellant and drops the round
into the muzzle. The propellant is
designed to detonate when the shell
hits the bottom of the mortar tube.
It was not known at what point the
shell exploded in Thursday’s accident.
At Fort Sill, a four-man team of
investigators picked their way through
the accident scene, pulling shrapnel
from trees and nearby buildings and
poking at a 2-foot wide, 1-foot deep
crater left by the stray shell.
Three types of howitzers —
105mm, 155mm and 8-inch guns —
were being used in target practice at
Fort Sill on Wednesday. Investigators
must determine which gun the shell
came from, and whether the firing
error was human or mechanical, said
Brig. Gen. Lou Hennies, director of
Army safety for the Army Safety
Center.
Post officials said the explosion
occurred 700 to 1,000 meters beyond
the target site. The shell landed about
10 yards from where a group of trai-
nees had lined in formation, preparing
to move to their next exercise.
The army identified those killed by
the blast as Pvt 1 Jimmy N. McCain,
21, of Troy, Ala.; Pvt. 1 Edward L.
Zastrow, 18, of Lester Prairie, Minn.,
and Spec. Thomas P. Boyle, 25. of
Ventura, Calif.
In education funding
State board seeks raise
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Elementary and secondary schools
would receive a funding increase of
$120 million next year, including $46
million for pay raises for teachers and
support personnel, under a proposal by
the state Board of Education.
The board also asked Thursday for
$61.7 million in capital improvement
funds during the next two years to
build and renovate classrooms.
“This is really a minimal increase,
and in no way indicates the true needs
of our schools,” said board member
Forest Reece Jr. of Tulsa.
State Superintendent Gerald Hoelt-
zel said the funding proposal for the
1990-1991 academic year would
“move Oklahoma teacher salaries
toward a competitive level" and
“allow school districts to buy neces-
sary amounts of textbooks and
supplies.”
If approved by the Legislature, the
budget plan would boost state aid for
common education to nearly $ 1 billion
in 1990. Thursday’s request proposes
an increase in state elementary and
secondary funding from $866 million
to $986 million.
Under the proposal, the minimum
salary for a beginning teacher would
be raised from the current $15,060 to
$19,060 a year. In addition, all state
minimum-salary schedules for teach-
ers would be increased by $4,000.
Hoeltzcl cautioned that not all ol the
state’s 36,000 public school teachers
would receive $4,000 pay increases
because many teachers already are
paid above state minimums.
Amtrack train, fire truck collide, two die
CATLETT, Va. (AP) — Work
crews today were clearing the wreck-
age of an Amtrak passenger train that
slammed into a fire truck at a rural
crossing, killing two firefighters and
injuring about 150 passengers.
“I felt us go across one track, and
the next thing 1 know, I woke up and I
was in the hospital,” said Frankie
Herndon, one of five firefighters
aboard the truck.
Herndon, who was treated at a
hospital for minor injuries and
released, said be did not see or hear the
train before Thursday night’s colli-
sion, which smashed the truck into
several pieces as it crossed the tracks
on a private road.
Two other firefighters and two train
passengers were in critical condition
early today.
Both engines and 11 cars of the
Crescent, bound from New York to
Atlanta and New Orleans, derailed
when the collision occurred about 7:40
p.m. in this northern Virginia town
about 40 miles southwest of Washing-
ton, D.G, said Amtrak spokesman
John Jacobsen in Washington.
All of the cars remained upright,
although three ended up at right angles
to the track and one was leaning on its
side.
The train was carrying 379 passen-
gers and a crew of 20, he said. Five
cars of the 16-car train remained on the
track, said Pal Jeffrey, another Amtrak
spokesman.
Rescue personnel formed a human
chain to guide the passengers through
brush away from the train.
Juliet Blair, an American Universi-
ty student from Ossining, N.Y., said
help arrived within minutes and
rescuers used ladders to help people
climb down. “We were really lucky,"
she said.
National Transportation Safety
Board spokesman Allan Pollock said
the board sent an investigative team to
the scene of the accident, accompanied
by NTSB board member Lee
Dickinson.
The Catlett Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment truck was responding to a call
and had turned onto a private road off
Virginia 28, which parallels the track,
when the accident occurred, authori-
ties said. .
The truck was responding to a car
fire call, WUSA-TV reported. No
warning lights were at the crossing and
none were necessary because it was a
private drive. WUSA reported, citing
state police.
An unidentifed resident told
WQRA Radio his son saw the acci-
dent. He said it would have been diffi-
cult for the Duck driver not to have
seen the Dain because the train had its
light on, visibility was good and the
crossing is on a flat, sDaighl stretch of
back.
The truck was shattered by the
impact. The biggest piece was flat-
tened across the front of the locomo-
tive and the only clue it had been a fire
truck was its color: red.
State police spokeswoman Lucy
Caldwell said firefighters Mark Mill-
er, 23, and Man Smith, 22, both of
Catlett, died at the scene.
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