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Sapulpa Daily
OKLA*HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORICAL BUILDING
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73105
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SUNDAY 650—DAILY 350
Vol. 74—No. 298—8 Pages
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73105 0£
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Monday
August 28, 1989
A Park Newspaper
Member of The Aeeeeieded Free*
Sapulpa, Okla. 74066
2244185
Today
Incidentally
Birthday greetings today go to
Shirlee Davis and 7-year-old
Jerry Alexander ... A full-blood,
male Cocker Spaniel needs a new
home. Call 224-0233.
Index
Along the Arkansas..............4
Ag Notes..............................3
Astro-graph..........................6
Bridge..........................
Business......................
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.........5
Celebrity Cypher.........
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Classifieds...................
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Comics........................
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Crossword Puzzle........
.........6
Dear Abby...................
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Deaths.........................
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Library Comer............
.........3
Lifestyles.....................
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L.M. Boyd...................
.........8
Names in the News......
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Public Records............
.........2
Social Calendar...........
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Sports..........................
......4,5
Stocks..........................
.........2
Fumes overcome
two employees
By the Herald Staff
Several persons were evacuated
from a local nursing home today after
two persons were injured by costic
fumes, according to Sapulpa Assistant
Fire Marshal Tooy Bielk.
He said two employees at Ranch
Terrace Nursing Home Inc., 1310 E.
Cleveland, were injured from fumes
created after employees apparently
poured a drain cleaner into a clogged
drain pipe.
The two employees were taken to
Bartlett Memorial Medical Center for
evaluation, Belk said. No nursing
home residents sustained injuries from
the incident.
The names and conditions of the
two employees were not available as
of presstime.
Belk said one wing of the home was
evacuated as a safety precaution and
vents were brought into the area to
remove the fumes.
Approximately 20 residents at the
home waited on the porch of the build-
ing and under trees while the building
was aired out.
Tote-No-Wa earns
chamber $10,000
Today in History..................2
Teacher is finalist
By the Herald Staff
Central Vo-Tech instructor
Lcilie Dilbeck recently was named
one of the six finalists in the Okla-
homa Council on Economic
Education’s 1989 "S’s for Oklaho-
ma Teachers” awards program.
Dilbeck was selected as a finalist
because of her project entry
submitted to the OCEE. The OCEE
was designed to assist instructors in
educating youth with economic
concepts. Members receive OCEE
newsletters along with economic
education materials and other
assistance from the executive
office.
Teachers who entered the
contest were required to submit a
project or course outline dealing
with principles and concepts of
economics.
Dilbeck’s project was an Inter-
national and Domestic Trade
Development Forum which was
held last November. The project
started out as a small class project
and soon progressed into a forum
that was open to the public.
Students planned and prepared
for the forum from start to finish
and the result was a great success
with many participants.
Dilbeck recently received a
letter of congratulations from the
OCEE and an invitation to attend
the annual meeting of OCEE in
November where the awards will
be officially announced and
presented.
Knight improved
By the Herald Staff
A Sapulpa man was listed in fair
condition at Hillcrest Medical
Center, Tulsa, today after a Thurs-
day motorcycle accident in Tulsa.
Christopher W. Knight, 21,
Sapulpa, is being treated fora frac-
tured jawbone, fractured cheek-
bone, a broken nose and facial
lacerations.
The cause of the accident has not
been established.
In a separate accident, two
16-year-old girls were treated and
released from St. John Medical
Center, Tulsa, after they were
involved in a local traffic accident
Friday.
Courtney R. Harper, 16, 2424
W. 43th Court, and Jamie L. Creek,
16, Tulsa, were treated and
released, according to a hospital
spokesman.
Both girls were passengers in a
vehicle driven by Christopher M.
Bradley, 17, 723 W. Mary Lynn.
According to police records,
Bradley was involved in an acci-
dent at the intersection of Hickory
and Orleans at 11:12 p.m. Friday
with David M. Loghry, 37,
Glenpool.
The accident occurred when
Bradley attempted to turn off Hick-
ory onto Orleans when the vehicles
collided.
Bradley was cited for following
too cloeely and Loghry was cited
for expired insurance verification.
Many calls
This advertisement netted many
calls snd helped rant the home:
3 BEDROOMS; Upstairs,
3 1/2 Baths, fireplace,
al electric, access to 6
acres and swimming pool;
In 700 block Watt Teel.
$500.00 month, plus
deposit
Far similar results, contsct the
Sapulpa Daily Herald Classified
Advertising Department at
224-3185. f
By DEBORAH LARGE
Herald Senior News writer
Going, going, gone!
The annual Tote-No-Wa auction
benefitling the Sapulpa Area Chamber
of Commerce ended Saturday night
with participants walking away with
lots of prizes and services.
Mo Harrison, director of the cham-
ber, said this year’s event was a big
success for the chamber. The auction
raised approximately $10,000, includ-
ing cash contributions.
Harrison previously set the 1989
Tote-No-Wa goal at $10,000.
Money raised from the annual
auction goes into the chamber’s oper-
ating budget to help run the office and
promote the Sapulpa area business and
industry. Approximately 10 percent of
the chamber’s operating expenses are
funded through money raised at the
annual event.
One highlight of Saturday’s event
was the drawing for a natural, blue fox
jacket valued at $2,300. Tickets were
sold for the drawing several days
before the auction. The winning ticket
selected Saturday belonged to Ethel
Wright of Sapulpa.
The jacket was donated by Interna-
tional Furs by Laura and Torchy’s
Country Plaza.
Also at the auction this year was an
item that garnered several bids.
A special “Lover’s Retreat”,
donated by Barbara Berry, included
the use of her cabin in Green Falls,
Colo., for one week.
This item got the highest bid of any
on the auction block, with a winning
bid of $370 made by Jill Smith of
Sapulpa.
Helping to make the event a success
was the Tote-No-Wa committee.
Committee members included Ruby
Kirk, Julie Warden, Arm Price, Liz
McMillon, Vicci Allen, Sarah
Cunningham, Jane Seaba, June
Gallagher, Jan Latham, Virginia
Latham, Rose Coiner, Sally Rainwa-
ter, Linda Cottrell, Mary Jo Stans bury,
Carol McMasters, Norma Peyton,
Glenda Bridges, Judy Hudgins, Dian-
ne Berry and Chairmen Dena
Summers.
Also, Harrison thanked all the
contributors who donated items or
services to make the auction happen.
The following is a list of individuals
and businesses who donated items to
be auctioned off at the event:
Dr. Charles Gebetsberger, Auto
Transmission Specialists, Petroleum
Contractors, Ranch Terrace Nursing
Home, BryafttIndustrial Construction,
Prose or, Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Rail-
road, Bill Bell Shelter Insurance,
Southwestern Bell, AAA Oil
(See Auction on Page 2)
Police need info on
missing equipment
Crime Watch
A service of Sapulpa Police Department and Sapulpa Daily Herald
Editor’s note: The following is a
joint effort of the Sapulpa Daily
Herald and the Sapulpa Police Depart-
ment to publicize unsolved crimes in
the Sapulpa area. A different crime
will appear each week.
By DOUG M. PASCO
Herald Staff Writer
Sapulpa police officers are search-
ing for information in the recent theft
of a machine from a local business.
According to police records, a cher-
ry picker was reported missing from
the parking lot of Bob Winkle Used
Cars, 8309 New Sapulpa Road, at 8:30
a.m. Aug. 14.
Sapulpa Police Det. Mike Romine
said officers discovered two sets of
foot prints near the area where the
machine originally was parked.
Romine said one suspect wore a size
eight shoe and the other suspect wore a
Sapulpa Assistant Fire Marshal Gail Langston, left,
Sapulpa Hazardous Materials Officer Mark Trotter,
center, and Sapulpa Firefighter Training Officer Jackie
Camer inspect the scene at Ranch Terrace Nursing Inc.,
1310 E. Cleveland, where costic fumes injured two
employees. About 20 residents at the home were
evacuated onto the front lawn of the home. (Herald photo
by Doug M. Pasco)
Bank files suit against Inhofe
By the Herald Staff and
The Associated Press
TULSA - Western National Bank of
Tulsa has filed a lawsuit against U.S.
Rep. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, for
more than $230,000 on a 1983 promis-
sory note, but the Oklahoma Republi-
can says the lawsuit wasn’t necessary.
Inhofe, whose district covers much
of Tulsa and parts of Creek County,
including Sapulpa, said the note is
fully secured by property worth twice
the value of the loan.
“I told the bank it wasn’t necessary
to foreclose because I would give them
a deed in lieu of foreclosure,” Inhofe
said.
Western National filed a lawsuit
Friday in Tulsa District Court, claim-
ing the note is in default because
Inhofe has refused demands for
payment.
Inhofe executed a promissory note
to the bank for $400,000 in October,
1983, according to the lawsuit. He
owed $232,623. as of Aug. 21, plus
$114 a day in interest since that day,
the lawsuit claims.
“I talked to someone at the bank at
3:30 pm. Friday and they told me
nothing would happen for five or six
more days,” Inhofe said Saturday. “I
don’t understand their motivation to
go against their word.”
Inhofe has been the center of finan-
cial problems and litigation several
times in the past. He sued his brother in
May, 1988, claiming misrepresenta-
tion of the value of insurance stock in a
1979 transaction.
Perry “Bud” Inhofe denied the
claim and counter sued his brother
several days later, claiming the
congressman owed him money on a
$200,000 loan.
In February, two nieces — the
daughters of Bud Inhofe — sued the
congressman, claiming he defaulted
on bonk notes they own.
In June, a lawsuit by stockholders in
Jim Inhofe’s failed Quaker Life Insur-
ance Co. alleged the company was
mismanaged and stockholders were
deceived. Inhofe has denied any
wrongdoing in that case.
Campaign for Switzer halted
size 10 shoe.
The machine was valued at approxi-
mately $630, according to police
records.
Anyone who may have seen two
people in the parking lot of the busi-
ness on the evening before the equip-
ment was reported missing or on
morning of the theft should contact the
police department.
The Sapulpa Police Department is
offering a reward for information lead-
ing to the arrest of the suspect or
suspects in this crime.
The reward offered for this and
future unsolved crimes will vary
depending on the crime and
information.
If you have information about this
crime contact the Sapulpa Police
Department's detective division at
224-3862. All information given to the
police can remain confidential.
TULSA (AP) — A Tulsa woman,
unsuccessful in a variety of political
campaigns, has dropped efforts to
promote former Oklahoma football
coach Barry Switzer for a seat in the
U.S. Senate because of a published
report that he is interested in running
for lieutenant governor.
Virginia Jetmer, who lauded Swit-
zer when she started her unsolicited
drive, said the former coach has
demonstrated a “distinct lack of
moxie when it comes to politics.”
Tulsa World sports columnist Bill
Connors reported in Sunday’s editions
that Switzer wasn’t interested in a
Senate seat, but “was receptive when
a group of Oklahoma Democrats
spoke to him about the possibility of
running for lieutenant governor.”
The column said backers of Switzer
will conduct polls in the coming
months regarding Switzer’s voting
appeal, and that he will wait for the
results of polls before determining
how serious he will be about entering
the race.
Efforts by The Associated Press to
reech Switzer by phone Sunday were
unsuccessful.
On a television program in Tulsa
last week, Switzer said he was “enter-
taining the possibility” of entering
politics, but “I haven’t really thought
that much about it.”
He said on the program that if he
became convinced he could help the
state by running for a state office, “I
would probably be interested.”
Ms. Jenner had said “Neither the
Big Red from the North nor the Big
Red from Moscow” frightened
Switzer.
But on Sunday she changed her
tune.
“Like Jerry Ford, he must have
played
his heir
one too many downs without
lis helmet,” she said in a statement.
She said “not only is Barry Switzer
a jock, he’s a dumb jock who wants to
become the Oklahoma Democrats’
Dan Quayle. ...”
Ms. Jenner and Kyle Goddard, her
husband and political counselor, have
launched a variety of unsuccessful
political campaigns in recent years.
They have been longtime critics of
Sen. David Boren, D-Okla.
Ms. Jenner said she had generated
“real enthusiasm” for Switzer’s
Senate candidacy during recent visits
in Craig and Rogers counties.
“But Switzer has been seduced by
some of Senator Boren’s buddies to
run for an errand-boy job as lieutenant
governor,” her statement said.
“The only saving grace is that as
lieutenant governor, Switzer can
spend full time recruiting business.' ’
Colombian banks destroyed
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ten
banks were blown up by bombs in the
cocaine manufacturing center of
Medellin, and local reports said the
justice minister who was leading a
crackdown on drug lords has fled to
the United Slates in fear of her life.
News reports also said Sunday that
an appeals court revoked an arrest
order accusing a top drug kingpin of
ordering two assassinations.
The bombs that went off throughout
Colombia’s second-largest city early
Sunday caused extensive damage to
10 branches of Banco Cafetero, Banco
de Colombia and Banco del Estado,
authorities said.
A police spokesman said a young
man was killed, apparently while
planting one of the bombs.
The spokesman said police patrols
in Medellin, 213 miles north of Bogo-
ta, were being tightened to prevent
new attacks. He said extra units had
been stationed throughout Medellin to
protea private and public buildings.
The city is hometown for the
Medellin Cartel, the world’s biggest
drug organization and reportedly
responsible for 80 percent of the
cocaine sent by air, sea and land to the
United States.
President Virgilio Barco meanwhile
‘ ‘denied reports related to the resigna-
tion of the justice minister,” Monica
de Grieff, but he failed to clarify
whether the minister had actually
resigned, according to a communique
late Sunday.
The presidential communique
followed a weekend of speculation
over the alleged desertion of Mrs. de
Grieff at a time when the government
is conducting an unprecedented
campaign against the drug lords.
Newspapers, radio networks and
television stations repeatedly reported
Sunday that Mrs. de Grieff had resig-
nation after less than two months in
charge.
(See Colombia on Page 2)
Administrator enjoys work
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By DOUG M. PASCO
Herald Staff Writer
Leaving the action crew of the
Sapulpa Fire Department and joining
the department's administrative crew
wu one of the toughest decisions
Assistant Fire Chief Jackie Camer has
had to make.
The 13 years he spent on the action
crew at the department were very
exciting.
“I liked the excitement of the job,
running down the street in full fire-
fighting gear, driving the trucks to the
fire nd just the intense moments of
the job,” Camer said. “It gets into your
blood, and you never get over it.”
In June, Camer started training the
officers to respond to the calls he has
been going on since May 1976 when
he joined the department.
“I really miss the firefighting
portion of thejob, but I see my job now
to be a vital position in the growth of
the fire department,” Career said.
As a boy, Camer never thought
about becoming a firefighter and only
thought about joining the department
after a local firefighter, Raymond
Cooper, suggested he apply for a job
“When I first applied, I was only 19
yean old, and they required that an
applicant be at least 21 years old, so I
left,” Camer said.
He had pretty much dismissed the
idea of joining the department and was
working in Tulsa when then Fire Chief
Danny Whilchouse offered him a posi-
tion in the department in May, 1976.
Camer said he accepted the position
without any hesitation and said he has
never been unhappy about his
decision.
“It is the moat unique place a person
can ever work since you live with your
co-workers and it also is the beat place
to work because of the people,” Camer
said.
Camer was promoted to driver in
November, 1978; shift instructor in
July, 1983; captain in April, 1983; and
assistant chief and training officer in
June, 1989.
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