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PAGE 1 IIKI'l -A-Sii[)ul|>a (Okla.) Daily Herald, Monday, Jan. 15, 21(01
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State group to support Ashcroft
State
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahomans plan to attend a rally
in Missouri to support former U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft, President-elect George
W, Bush’s nominee for attorney general.
Conservative Republican activist E.Z. Million will
lead a caravan to the event, which will be held at the
Green County Courthouse in Springfield, Mo..
Ashcroft's hometown. The caravan is sponsored by the
Oklahoma Conservative Committee.
Ashcroft has come under fire for his views, including his opposition of abor
lion, even in cases of rape and incest. His supporters defend him by saying he
will enforce the law regardless of his personal views.
Bush nominated Ashcroft for the job many thought would go to Gov. Prank
Keating.
One ol the rally speakers will be Susan Ducey, a Reform Party candidate for
Congress in Oklahoma's 4th District last year.
Train collision threatens lake
ft II.SA (AP) — Emergency crews helped prevent 5,000 gallons of spilled
diesel fuel from getting into Grand I .ake in Oklahoma.
The spill occurred at 11:10 p.m. Sunday when two Burlington Northern Santa
Fe trains collided five miles east of Seneca, Mo., on a Big Lost Creek overpass.
Both trains went into the creek, and one spilled its diesel cargo.
Big Lost Creek is a tributary of Grand Lake. Seneca is on the Missouri
Oklahoma border at U.S. 60.
‘They rode it out,” Gary Roark, the director of emergency management serv-
ices, said of the train engineers who met unexpectedly.
The collision occurred when a westbound train slowed down, but didn’t get
stopped in time as the eastbound train was pulling into a siding track, Roark
said.
One train tumbled off the north side, and the other went over the south side of
a railroad overpass into Big Lost Creek, he said.
Cleanup began shortly after midnight, as bulldozer and backhoe operators
traveled downstream about 2 1/2 miles to dam up the west end of the area.
The railroad hired a contractor using a vacuum truck to skim off the diesel
from the water.
Bridge declared safe until repairs
COLBF.RT (AP) A bridge that crosses the Red River in Bryan County can
stay open until repairs begin Jan. 29, a federal highway official said.
Inspectors considered closing the 1,200-foot long Carpenter’s Bluff bridge
for safety reasons after divers discovered a hole in one of the underwater con-
crete piers. The one-lane bridge connecting Oklahoma and Texas is used by
about 6(X) vehicles per day.
Area residents feared that closing the bridge would cut off a vital path for
Oklahomans who travel to Texas to work in the industrial areas of Denison and
Shemian. Some began taking up collections to save the bridge, built in 1905 for
a railroad crossing and later paved for vehicles.
A follow up inspection last week revealed the bridge should be safe enough
to leave open until repairs are finished, Calvin Karper, a bridge engineer for the
Federal Highway Administration, said Monday.
“I’ve asked them to monitor the pier between now and then,” Karper said.
"We’re trying to keep the bridge open, but we want to be very cautious about it,
too. Our main concern here is public safety.”
Repairs are to cost $30,(XX), paid by Oklahoma's Bryan County and Texas’
Grayson County.
Council votes to issue license tags
TAHLEQIJAH (AP) — The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council on Monday
voted unanimously to allow the tnbe to issue its own motor vehicle license tags,
revenues from which will benefit public schools within the tribe’s jurisdiction.
The tribe's 2(X),(XX) members will be able to purchase car tags at a cost of $75
for a vehicle one to four years old, and as low as $10 for vehicles more than 17
years old. Thirty-eight percent of tag revenues will be given to schools in the 14
counties under tribal territory.
‘That’s what makes this bill unique among tribal tag laws,” said David
Mullon, the tribe's associate general counsel. "No other tribe shares revenue
with local schools.”
The Creek Nation, the Sac and Fox Nation and other tribes in Oklahoma al-
ready sell car tags.
If possible, Mullon said, the tribe could enter into a compact with the state to
coordinate its motor vehicle licensing activities with those of the Oklahoma Tax
Commission. The tribe also is working with state officials toward an agreement
that would allow the tribal tags to be entered into a national database, officials
said.
Chief Chad Smith was authorized to negotiate the compact, which would
have to be approved by a tribal council resolution, with state officials.
By granting revenues to public schools, Mullon said, the tribe will be lessen-
ing the revenue impact on the state. Part of the money also is designated for
Sequoyah High School near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah.
Minister survives El Salvador quake
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Garvin County woman whose husband trav-
eled to El Salvador for missionary work received gixxJ news on Monday.
Officials from the group International Evangelistic Crusade told Jeanie Price
that her husband, the Rev. Jim Price, survived the 7.6 earthquake that hit the San
Salvador area on Saturday. Nearly 6(X) people have been reported killed in the
quake.
Price, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hennepin, left with the Dallas-
based non-denominational organization Jan. 4 and was scheduled to return
Tuesday.
After two days worrying about her husband, Mrs. Price was informed on
Monday that her husband had survived the quake and was on his way home.
After not hearing any word since Saturday's earthquake, officials with
International Evangelistic Crusade finally got through to the group in El
Salvador. Officials said they heard from everyone on the mission, that they were
safe and will be on airplanes heading back to the United States Tuesday.
Before the quake, Price was last heard from in the small town of Sonsonate,
about 30 miles west of San Salvador.
Hennepin is located near the Arbuckle Mountains in south-central Oklahoma.
Man killed by impact after fall
IAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old man who fell off a Carnival cruise ship
in Tampa Bay died from injuries caused by impact with the water, an autopsy re-
vealed.
Michael Hepner suffered blunt trauma to his
head and neck after he fell from a deck of the
Carnival Sensation, a spokeswoman for the
Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s
Office said Monday.
The spokeswoman, Amanda Whidden, said the death was ruled an accident.
Hepner had been on the cruise with his girlfriend, Rebecca Brown, who told
police Hepner had been drinking before the incident. A Carnival Cruise Line
spokeswoman said the ship’s drinking age is 21.
Whidden said a toxicology report on Hepner’s blood-alcohol level will not be
available for four to six weeks.
Investigators said Hepner climbed over a railing of the ship after he got into
an argument with Brown. He tried to pull himself back to the ship’s deck, but he
lost his grip and fell to the water.
A Coast Guard rescue helicopter found Hepner floating unconscious two
miles offshore around 4 a m. Sunday.
SCHOOL
nation
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dent and their parent sign a contract
with the school.
Students “commit to their success,”
said Dr. Mary Webb, Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction.
"They are here because they want to
be here," said Bart Bartlett with the
Bartlett Foundation. ‘These are not bad
kids,” he said. ‘They are students who
do not fit into traditional school set
tings."
"We have lots of good kills here,”
said Thompson.
She said there is a public misconcep-
tion of what alternative schools arc
about.
Bartlett students are active in the
community, mentoring students at
Garfield Early Childhood Center, visit
ASHCROFT
ing the elderly in area nursing homes
and cleaning up Davis Park, Thompson
said. They also worked to help clean up
flood damage in the neighborhood
around their school after the May 6
flixxf
She said that many of the students at
the school have to help support their
families.
“A lot of them would just drop out
(of school),” said Thompson, if there
were no alternative school.
Attendance is vital.
“I don’t care if we have to go to their
their house and drag them out of bed.
They're going to sch(X)l," she said.
When a student enrolls at the sch<x>l,
they lake a test to find out where the
gaps in their education are. Thompson
said one of the biggest weaknesses they
see is math.
The school has “at least an 80 per
cent-plus success rate," said Bartlett of
students.
About that many graduate or com
plete their GED after finishing with the
school. Students are allowed to gradu-
ate with their class at Sapulpa High
School, participate in prom and take
electives at the school.
Thompson said that if students come
to the alternative school and don't mesh
with them and want to stay, the schix>l
will work with them to help them earn
their GED, enroll in college or get a
full-time job.
Thompson also said that the support
ol the Bartlett Foundation does more
than just help get new equipment and
needed classrcxim space.
“It also provides the kids with the
feeling that there are people out there in
the community who feel that they are
worthwhile," she said. “ (bartlett
Foundation trustee) Mr (Harry)
Freeman truly cares about theses
kids, he wants them to have the oppor-
tunities when they leave.
"A lot of times, it takes just building
confidence (to help the students to suc-
ceed)," said Thompson
“I just think that they give an added
bonus to this program that these kids
would not be able to access (other-
wise),” she said. They made the differ
ence of whether this program was go-
ing to make it or not.”
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to be absent that kind of practice,"
Ashcroft said. “It’s wrong, inappropri
ate. It shouldn’t be done. ” He said Bush
“is sensitive to this problem.”
The Judiciary hearings will be
chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
since Democrats control the Senate un-
til Bush is sworn in on Saturday. But
even after Republicans take over the
chamber, which is split evenly between
Republicans and Democrats — Vice
President Dick Cheney can break a tie
— Ashcroft opponents see hope in the
numbers as they try to find moderate
Republicans to oppose the nominee.
Republicans know that senators usu-
ally confirm one of their own. Ashcroft
was defeated for re-election in
November by the late Gov. Mel
Carnahan, who won despite his death
in a plane crash. His widow, Jean, was
named to fill the seat and agreed to in-
troduce Ashcroft.
On the first day of hearings that
could last the rest of the week,
Democrats were expected to question
RABIES
Ashcroft about his opposition toconfir
mation of a black Missouri judge,
Ronnie White, to the federal bench; and
his opposition to a voluntary school de
segregation plan in St. Louis. White
was expected to testily at the hearing
this week.
He also faced questions about his
vetoes, as Missouri governor, of bills
that would have allowed independent
organizations such as the League of
Women Voters to register residents of
St. Louis.
Some of the loudest complaints
about Ashcroft surround his opposition
to abortion, even when a woman is
raped or a victim of incest. Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said recently
that Ashcroft “would make a woman a
criminal, even if she was raped or the
victim of incest."
Ashcroft’s wife, Janet Ashcroft, said
Tuesday on ABC’s "Good Morning
America” that she was attacked by a
rapist several years ago “and John’s re-
sponse to me was absolutely perfect.
which amazed me. ... His response to
my situation was exactly the way any
woman would want him to respond."
As the hearings progress, Ashcroft
also could be asked to discuss other ex-
plosive topics: his conservative view of
a judge’s role; selections of Supreme
Court nominees; his comments praising
Southern war heroes; and allegations
that he improperly used state govern
ment employees in his 1984 campaign
for governor of Missouri
Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker,
quoting Ashcroft, said any political
work in the campaign was not done on
government time.
On Monday, Charles Fivers, brother
of slain civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, sent letters of support for
Ashcroft to members of the judiciary
committee, saying allegations of racism
against him “are not supported by
facts.”
Evers, a former mayor of Fayette,
Miss., was a Mississippi delegate to the
2(XX) GOP convention.
Also on Monday, St. Ixtuis attorney
and Ashcroft friend Charles Polk de
fended the former senator in remarks to
reporters, saying Ashcroft would make
“a fine attorney general” for all
Americans, regardless of their race.
Polk, who is black, dismissed crit-
ics’ allegations that Ashcroft is a racist
“That’s a joke — it really is a joke and
it upsets me," Polk said.
Other Bush nominees facing hear-
ings this week include Colin Powell,
the selection for secretary of state; Paul
O’Neill, Treasury; Thompson, Health
and Human Services; Spencer
Abraham, Energy; Christie Whitman,
Environmental Protection Agency; Ann
Veneman, Agriculture; Mel Martinez,
Housing and Urban Development; and
Anthony Pnncipi, Veterans Affairs.
Continued from Page 1
food,” she said. ‘The snow and ice has
had all their winter food covered.”
Residents who locate what could be
a rabid animal are encouraged not to
touch the animal bare handed and to
not allow children or pets to handle or
chew on the animal, even if it is dead.
WEATHER
Continued from Page 1
in 10 years,” said Hudgins. "We have
one section that was about 60 feel long
and about 10 feet deep.
“It’s not anything that you can plan
for. You just have to go in and repair."
Because the roads cannot be re
paired before the bases dry, some have
been filled with gravel as a temporary
patch measure. When workers get the
opporunity, they will go back and fill
the patch with asphalt, Hudgins said.
Repairing roads is an expensive un-
dertaking.
“We figured what we lost about 12
miles, and the material cost at over
$260,000,” said Hudgins. ‘That’s about
four years' worth of progress down the
drain in about four weeks."
He is expecting the winter storm to
only make things worse roadwise.
“We're really just looking for this
storm to exacerbate some existing
problems, because there’s still a lot of
damage from the first storm that has
not manifested itself at this point,”
Hudgins said. “Another round of freeze
and thaw cycles and the problems will
break on through."
Hudgins is expecting more winter
weather before everything is said and
done.
"If it continues on the track that it
started in December, we’ve still got a
few weeks left to fight,” said Hudgins.
“I just imagine we’re not going to get
any help from the groundhog this year,
so we’re digging in and getting ready.”
“One thing about it," said Pope.
"The more of these we have, the less
we’re going to have to look forward
to.”
Officer loses three months'
pay for role in deadly raid
DENVER (AP) — A police officer
who signed an erroneous search war-
rant that led to a fatal no-knix;k raid at
the wrong address will lose three
months’ pay but will be allowed to re-
turn to the force.
The decision Monday by police of-
ficials prompted complaints from sup-
porters of the victim, Ismael Mena, a
Mexican immigrant killed in the Sept.
29, 1999, raid. Joseph Bini, 32, will re-
ceive nine months’ back pay stemming
from the 12-month suspension he has
already served, police officials said
Monday. They also said he will be giv-
en a different position on the force.
“This is the ultimate and apparently
the final slap in the face to the family
of Ismael Mena and to the communi-
ty," said LeRoy Lemos, head of an ac-
tivist group set up after the death.
Dead animals suspected of rabies
should be taken to a veterinary clinic
for testing, and animals who may have
come in contact with the rabid animal
should be quarantined until it can be
determined they have not been infect-
ed.
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