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Tuesday
August 12, 1986
Formal charges
on mom’s death
due^fednesday
By DEBORAH LARGE
Herald Staff Writer
Robert D. Henderson, who
allegedly confessed to police Friday
that he killed his mother, is expected
to be charged Wednesday with first
degree murder, according to assis-
tant district attorney, Millard
Pickering.
Monday afternoon, Special
District Judge April Sellers White
set bond for Henderson at 15,000.
Henderson still was in the sheriff's
custody today, according to the
Creek County jailer.
Henderson, 42, of Sapulpa alleged-
ly confessed Friday to police that he
murdered his mother, Ethel Hender-
son of Sapulpa, in February 1985.
A police affadavit said Henderson
said that he killed his mother
because she had signed over a fami-
ly ranch to his brother, Frank.
Henderson will appear before
White again in Creek County District
Court 9:30 am. Wednesday to
receive a formal charge. A charge of
first degree murder could carry the
death penalty, Pickering said.
According to a police affidavit
submitted at the bond hearing,
police received a call of a person
found dead at 507 W. Courtney on
Feb. 1,1985. Officers were met at the
(See CHARGES on Page 2)
City commissioners stand to pray before opening their first meeting in the chambers of the newly constructed Sapulpa City Hall at Dewey and
Walnut. (Herald photo by Dauane Raby Jr)
Not much new on
City opens first meeting in new city hall Sahoma Lake death
By DAUANE RABY JR.
Herald Staff Writer
The Sapulpa City Commission
entered a new era Monday,
meeting for the first time in the
chambers of Sapulpa's new city
hall at Dewey and Walnut.
Appropriately, primary pur-
pose of the special commission
meeting was to discuss final
details on the new city building.
“It’s just awesome,"
McMasters said, describing the
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environment in which she and her
fellow commissioners were
gathered.
“We want to extend an open
door to anyone who would like to
come and sit in comfort and
watch city government in these
pleasant surroundings," she said.
A public grand opening for the
city hall is planned for mid-
September, McMasters said.
The mayor said rite had met
with the committee responsible
for selecting artwork for the
building. The committee is trying
to develop a theme around which
to coordinate the decorations.
Railroads and the oil business are
two ideas McMasters mentioned. •
McMasters also said some
pieces of art have been donated
for the building.
The commissioners voted to
award a bid to Enlow Tractor in
the amount of $1,775 for a flail
mower. The machine will be used
to maintain the landscape outside
the building.
The purchase of an irrigation
system from Reid Irrigation for
$4,800 also was approved.
In another item of business, the
commissioners awarded a bid to
Micro-Link of Tulsa for a com-
puter to be used in the fire depart-
ment. The computer will coat
$1,394.
By The Herald Staff
The Tulsa medical examiner's of-
fice has declared that a gunshot
wound in the head is the cause of the
death of Rhonda Sue Hardway, 28, of
Tulsa, whose body was found
Thursday at Sahoma Lake.
A spokesman for the medical ex-
aminer’s office would not offer any
additional information on the case
today, including the time and date of
death.
The spokesman said any addi-
tional information will be turned
over to the district attorney’s office
and police department.
Hard way’s body was found by two
people fishing in the area Thursday.
Some of the woman's facial skin
and hair had been detached from her
head, which had received a gunshot
wound. The medical examiner's of-
fice said the mutilation probably
was inflicted by animals.
Sapulpa Police Detective Bruce
Duncan would not comment on the
investigation of the death.
“We've been working on that, and
I have no comment until we are
through with the investigation,'’ he
said.
Pro wrestlers Crosby’s fun is painting people walls Today
are coming to
Sapulpa soon
By DAUANE RABY JR.
Herald Staff Writer
Kimala clutches and below-the-
belt punches will come to Sapulpa
next week, when professional
wrestlers stage a benefit meet for
the O.B. Knight War Memorial
Museum.
The Veterans Memorial Associa-
tion is sponsoring a Universal
Wrestling Federation card at 8 p.m.
Aug. 20 at the Sapulpa High School
gym.
Proceeds from the event will go
toward construction of the proposed
O.B. Knight War Memorial
Museum, to be built at Green Hills
Memorial Gardens.
Said N.A. Smith, president of the
veterans association, “We’re plann-
ing on having a big crowd. There
seems to be a lot of wrestling fans in
thlsarea.”
The card will feature the Fan-
tastics, Eddie Gilbert, Sting, Ted
Dibiase, Kimala. Scandar Akbar,
Jaff Gaylord, Jack Victory, Chavo
Guerrero and Gutavo Mendoza.
Gilbert and Sting are the UWF tag
team champions, having won the ti-
tle recently from Booby Fulton and
Tommy Rogers, who are the Fan-
tastics.
Kimala, a 400-pound-plus grappler
managed by Akbar, will go against
Dibiase.
Tickets can be purchased at the
door or in advance. Advance ticket
locations include Harrison’s Shoe
Store, Sid’s Old Style Barbecue,
Williams Sewing Center and Carl’s
Coney Island.
Ticket prices are $10, $8, $7 and $5.
Counselor pleads
guilty to charge
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A
school counselor involved in a
federal drug investigation as a
result of her dealings with former
state Sen. Bernard McIntyre of
Tulsa has pleaded guilty to a single
drug count.
Edwyna Patricia Royal had been
sAeduled to go on trial Monday on
charges that she distributed cocaine
to McIntyre. But, in a plea bargain
with federal prosecutors, she plead-
ed guilty to a felony charge of using
• telephone to arrange a cocaine
transaction.
By MENDY MAYBERRY
Herald Living Editor
“Some people get in trouble for
painting on other people’s walls,’’
Sapulpan Russell Crosby pointed
out, “but this way, I get away with
it.”
Crosby paints detailed murals, in-
cluding the animated mural he is
working on in a Sunday School room
at Sapulpa Church of the Nazarene.
He has been working on the scene
about three months and expects it to
be completed by year’s end.
The sqene, which includes a varie-
ty of animals, scenery and a church,
decorates one wall of the 2- and 3-
year-olds’ classroom at the church.
The class is taught by Judy
McGowan.
McGowan decided several months
ago she would like to have a mural
painted on the classroom wall, but
wasn’t sure where to turn for help.
She learned of Crosby's skills
through a mutual friend and became
determined to have Crosby paint the
children’s mural.
Crosby, who is an accountant with
Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railroad,
Russell Crosby
works on the mural after work a few
hours a week.
The first mural he painted in
Sapulpa is at South Heights Elemen-
tary School, where he and his wife's
8-year-old daughter, Brean, is a stu-
dent.
Special people
Crosby said the school’s principal,
Jim DeLoache, asked him to paint
the scene, which includes cartoon
characters, a flight scene and some
Cabbage Patch dolls.
Crosby referred to Brean as his
assistant. The young artist began
micmicking her father’s
brushstrokes when he painted a
mural in her bedroom. Crosby left a
space for Brean to exercise her
creativity, thus allowing her to
finish up the mural herself.
The characters in Crosby’s mural
scenes are so realistic that
McGowan said their effect on
children is quite noticeable. She said
children who are a bit afraid on their
first day in the classroom seemed to
be calmed by the bright mural.
Crosby's work at the Nazarene
church is a labor of love. He is
donating his time and skills, only
asking the church to help with
materials.
State’s cash position better
off than same time last year
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - July’s revenues will be
enough for the state to pay its bills in August without
drawing as heavily as last year on the cash-flow reserve
fund, according to Gov. George Nigh.
Nigh’s office said Monday that the revenue forecast
for August is due in part to a reduced spending level in
July, the first month of the 1987 fiscal year.
Moat agencies began operating with reduced budgets
on July 1, after the Legislature cut appropriations
because of the state’s revenue shortfall.
Nigh’s office said tax collections for the first month of
the fiscal year increased slightly over a year ago, leav-
ing the state in a better cash position than it was at the
same time in 1965.
General revenue collections for July totaled $137.5
million, an increase of about 1 percent.
But Nigh’s office said the increase was caused by a
statutory bookkeeping change by which some previous
special funds now go to the general fund.
“It is welcome news that this year’s collections were
about even with those of a year ago in view of the sharp
decline in oil prices," Nigh said in a statement. “We
must continue to be aware that abnormally low prices
for oil and farm products will continue to dampen our
economy for some time. ”
Oil prices have fluctuated from about $10 to $14 a bar-
rel in recent weeks and have increased recently after an
earlier plunge.
“We are hopeful the recent increases in oil prices will
continue,” Nigh said. He said it will be several weeks
before any gain in oil revenue is reflected in revenue
figures.
The $137.5 million in revenue collections, plus $2.6
million in one-time funds, gave the stae $140.1 million
toward funding the August allocation of $147.5 million.
The $7.4 million difference will be made up from the
cash-flow reserve fund.
A year ago, the state general fund received $136.4
million in tax collections and $5 million in one-time
funds, or a total of $141.4 million.
But the monthly allocation figure a year ago was $163
million, forcing the state to dip into the reserve fund for
$21.6 million.
Spending cuts by the 1986 Legislature reduced this
year’s funding level.
In 1985, the state entered September with $83 million in
its cash-flow fund, compared with $88 million currently
in the fund.
The revenue report for July showed a net gain of $4.9
million in income taxes and a gain of $2.8 million in sales
taxes.
But those amounts were more than offset by a $13
million, or 47 percent plunge in gross production taxes
on oil and gas. Funding from other sources showed a
gain of $9 million, or 3 percent.
Tax receipts for the Department of Human Services
were down $1.9 million, or 5.6 percent for the month. The
reason was a 6.2 percent drop in the 2 cent sales tax that
is dedicated to the DHS.
“I feel we have a duty to do some
things,’’Crosby said.
He said the pleasure of knowing
others are enjoying his work is
worth more to him than any money
he might receive.
“It's nice to know something you
have fun doing gives pleasure to
others,’’ Crosby said.
Crosby’s talent isn’t limited to
animated characters. In fact, he
said he prefers to do portraits.
He first studied art at Nor-
theastern Oklahoma A & M College
at Miami after a tour with the Navy.
He planned to become a commercial
artist, but switched his vocation to
accounting and adopted art as his
hobby.
His work is influenced by works by
Thomas Hart Benton, who Crosby
referred to as an "American
originalist." He said Benton was one
of the most famous American
muralistsduring the 1930s.
Crosby is a native of Vinita, Okla.
He came to Sapulpa 13 years ago to
accept his job with the Tulsa-
Sapulpa Union Railroad.
He is a member of Sertoma and a
Baptist.
Boren still
confident in
PAC fight
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators
who want to curb the growing in-
fluence of special interest money in
congressional campaigns are confi-
dent they can win the Senate’s first
head-on vote on the issue in a
decade.
“I’m optimistic we'D have more
than 50 votes,” Sen. David Boren, D-
Okla , said Monday after the Senate
opened debate on his bipartisan
legislation to limit campaign con-
tributions by political action com-
mittees.
• The 100-member Senate was
scheduled to vote on the proposal to-
day.
Boren and 17 cosponsors were
fighting the congressional clock
because floor action on the PAG
limit bill — delayed since last
December — finally began with only
five weeks left in the scheduled 1986
session.
Even if the measure finally clears
the Senate, it also would have to be
approved by the House, where more
than 100 members are cosponsoring
a similar bill.
Incidentally
Birthday greetings to 16-year-old
Allison Salmon, 40-year-old Lean
Cheesman and Michael Anglin ...
Belated greetings to Cheryl Upton,
who celebrated Monday ... Four, 8-
week-old kittens — three white and
one black, are looking for new
homes at 224-7637 ... More kittens
are available at 224-1801 ... A Ger-
man shepherd that is good with
women is available at 321-3897 ... A
female dingo (a redish-brown, wild
dog from Australia) and three pup-
pies need new homes at 363-7634 ...
The Herald invites Christy Wall to
see “Running Scared” or “Top
Gun” tonight at Creek Hills Cinema
... The Herald also invites Randy
Tuttle to see “About Last Night” at
Tee Pee Drive-In Theatre.
Weather
Today: Breezy and warm with a 20
percent chance of afternoon
thunderstorms. High in the low to
mid-90s. South wind 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms. Low in the upper
60s. South wind 10to20mph.
Wednesday: Breezy and warm
with a 20 percent chance of
thunderstorms. High near 95. South
wind 15 to 25 mph.
Thursday through Saturday: A
slight chance of thunderstorms in
the northwest Thursday and
statewide Friday and Saturday.
Near normal temperatures with
highs from the upper 80s to mid-90s
and lows from the mid-60s to lower
70s.
Index
Classifieds.............8,9
Comics..................7
DearAbby...............9
Deaths.......... 2
Living...................3
L.M. Boyd...............9
Opinion..................4
Sports...................6
State News..............10
Television...............7
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