Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 82, No. 289, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 22, 1972 Page: 1 of 18
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VOL. LXXXII, NO. 289
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Tons of Packaging Material Ruined
Blaze Destroys Contents of Warehouse
department offi-
Five Youths Lose Lives
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13 Vehicles in Weatherford Fog Collisions
Cars Pile Up
Trooper Hurt
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British Common Market Entry to Hurt
$1 Billion U.S. Trade Loss Feared
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“He yelled for those in his
car to look back and see if
it missed the second car.
“When they turned
around to look, they saw
the collision.
"Rev. and Mrs. Richey
and their other two chil-
dren were in a third car
just behind the second. It
all happened right before
their eyes," he said.
Mr. Sullivent said the
church group was return-
ing from a youth rally at
the Church of God of the
billion.
Britain, Ireland, Norway and Denmark
signed treaties today to enter the Market, an
action the United States has favored.
STATE TRAFFIC TOLL
1972 to date: 35
1971 to date: 40
*71 deaths under 21: IS
However, negotiations on expanding the
Market began when the U.S. balance of trade
was favorable. Now the United States is buy-
ing much more abroad than It sells, so the big
loss will hurt much more.
Contoifi Copyright, 1»72, The Oklohomo Publishing Co., JOO N Broadway, Box 2511S, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73125
18 PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1972
TV Log
Vital Statistics
Women’s News
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warehouse, but dense
smoke still lingering in the
windowless building ham-
pered efforts to determine
what was used to set the
fire.
Assistant Fire Chief Bill
Liebegott said calls for ad-
ditional men and machin-
ery boosted the response
to the equivalent of a two-
Amusements
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Classified Section
Comics
Obituaries
Religion News
Sports
EAST ST. LOUB, Hl.
(AP)—Twe chemical teak
ears exploded at « refl
yard near downtown today,
5 shattering wlndowi orer a
m wide area. Auttearttton mH
% 92 persons were hart, Mtot
5 by flying glans. No tataD-
* ties were reported.
All five young victims
were pronounced dead of
massive Injuries when
they reached Jane Phillips
Hospital in Bartlesville.
The Gray girls were sis-
(See CRASH—Page 2)
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^venlng-Mdrnihg Dail
Paid Circulation
Average In December
What’s Inside
By Mike Shannon
Fire destroyed the con-
tents of a- southwest Okla-
homa City warehouse ear-
ly this morning, sending
blinding clouds of smoke
throughout the industrial
area.
- Fire Marshal Buddy
Koch called the blaze "def-
initely arson."
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Heavy fog and a thin
glaze of ice on bridges in
western and southwestern
Oklahoma triggered a 13-
car pileup on 1-40 east of
Weatherford and numer-
ous other accidents today.
A Highway Patrol troop-
er who was out of his unit
investigating the big pile-
up was seriously injured
when struck by another
car as it overturned when
brakes were applied on the
slick pavement.
The thick fog and light
mist also hung over parts
of central and northern Ok-
lahoma but no icing was
reported and no major out-
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clear the wrecks.
At least a dozen other
accidents, none with seri-
ous injury, were reported
in ’ the Ciinton, Cor-
dell, Hobart, Elk City and
(See TROOPER—Page 2)
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per cent a year for five years. The effect on
U.S.-British trade will thus not be felt at once.
Actually, the greatest impact on American
trade will not be in sales to Britain but in sales
to the other three countries joining today still partment crews worked to
other countries—Sweden, Switzerland, Austria
and Finland—who will not enter formally but
will be making duty-free arrangements with
the Common Market.
Duty-free agreements with these four
countries could cost the United States as much
gradual, with present duties being reduced 20 as $300 million a year in sales.
Local: Decreasing cloud-
iness and warmer through
Sunday with light variable
winds. Overnight low low-
er 30’s; highs Sunday near
65. (Details, Page B.)
HOURLY TIMPIRATUMS
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break of road crashes oc-
curred, the patrol report-
ed.
The weather forecasters
continued to insist that the
fog, which has been
around several days would
clear and warmer temper-
Apostolic Faith in Arkan-
sas City, Kan., when the
collision occurred. They
had gone from their homes
to the rally earlier Friday
afternoon and almost had
completed their return trip
when death struck.
at the ice-slick overpass
pileup three miles east of
Weatherford.
Goodman was given
emergency treatment at
the Weatherford hospital
and then transferred to
McBride Hospital in Okla-
homa City.
Officers from the Weath-
erford Police Department
said Goodman went to the
scene originally to investi-
gate a one-car accident.
His patrol car, which was
parked on a shoulder of
1-40, was struck by another
car and then 13 more cars
piled up in a chain rear-
end collision mass.
While Goodman was at-
tempting to untangle the
pileup, the other car ran
up on the crash and over-
turned, striking him as it
rolled over.
No one was seriously in-
jured in any of the other
cars, police said. The
westbound lanes of 1-40
were blocked for more
than an hour, however, as
every available wrecker
and State Highway De-
By Shorty Shelburne
COPAN - Five Wash-
ington County youths, four
of them returning from a
church youth rally, were
killed early today in a
two-car smashup on U.S.
75 a mile north of Copan.
The parents of one of the
young girls who was killed
and several members of
their church group riding
in two other cars watched
in horror as the five-fatal-
ity crash occurred.
; The car in which the
four youths died was the
middle vehicle in a three-
car caravan of leaders and
youths from the Happy
Hill Church near Ramona.
' A car driven by a Dewey
youth narrowly missed the
warehouse.
Firemen responding to
the 3:39 a.m. alarm,
pounded by a nearby serv-
ice station operator who
saw smoke billowing from
the front door, were forced
to saw holes in the sheet
metal roof to vent the
smoke.
Liebegott said firefight-
ers entered the building
through a side door of the
300-foot-long warehouse,
running hoses up to within
about 75 feet of the front
door.
He said his men played
water on intact bundles,
containing the blaze to the
front third of the building.
Koch said a second fire
was set at the rear of the
warehouse, but it only
burned the wrapping from
one 15-foot-high stack of
boxes.
Liebegott said the fire
was under control by
about 5:20 a.m., although
small pockets of flames
continued beneath col-
lapsed bundles until after
dawn.
He said firemen planned
to use a front-end loader to
drag the charred and sog-
gy bundles out of the build-
ing.
Meantime, police inves-
tigators probed another
part of the U-shaped busi-
ness where firemen found
two vending machines bur-
glarized.
Koch said the machines,
in a leg of the U parallel-
ing the burned warehouse,
were apparently burglar-
ized by someone who then
made his way along a con-
necting hallway into the
area where the fires were
set.
Investigators said they
had not been able to deter-
mine how the intruder
tered the building.
Officials said about 50
alarm situation, but he ex-
plained the second alarm
was never made “because
it wasn't that much of an
emergency. It was just a
matter of wearing out the
men."
He said firefighters
wearing breathing devices
were hampered by the
dense smoke inside the
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En Route to Safety
Airport employees, aided by firemen, scamper
down aerial ladder from roof m fire destroys the huge
Manila International Airport terminal buHdiag early
today. Seven person# died in the btase which canned
$38 million In property damage. (AP Wirephoto)
Officials of Rpck City
Packaging, Inc., SW 29
and Portland, were con-
ducting an inventory of the
burned contents at mid-
mo r n i n g, but had not
made any estimate of the
damage. The warehouse
contained tons of paper
boxes.
Fire
Families in the Starview
Heights Addition of Mid-
■ west City said they were
\ draining hot water tanks
and using service station
1 restrooms today after the
firefighters used U pieces area’s water system failed
of equipment to eTctinguish Friday night.
The area is served by
Metropolitan Water Co.,
which maintains a well
and a storage tank just
east of the 1700 block
Douglas Blvd, to supply
the homes in the area.
The exact extent of the
outage could not be deter-
mined, but the Metrpolltan
Water Co. answering serv-
ice operator said, “I don’t
know how many homes
are without service, but
we’ve had j i 11 i o n s of
calls."
Several customers in the
area estimated that as
many as 80 homes might
be without service.
Officials at the water
- company maintain unlist-
ed phone numbers and did
not return calls left with
their answering service.
Gail Ferree of 1706 N
Douglas said he called the
water company about 8:30
p.m. Friday when his wa-
ter initially stopped.
"I have called them sev-
eral times since then and
all I get for an answer is
that they are working on
1 it."
Ferree said both he and
his wife were sick and
1 were badly in need of wa-
ter.
Another S t a r v 1 e w
Heights homeowner, Elton
Wester of 1712 N Douglas,
claimed the water compa-
ny crews apparently were
not worried about fixing
the malfunction.
Wester's home sits just
west of the water company
well.
"Once in a while a water
company guy comes out in
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By John Gillie
a pickup, looks at the well
and moves on.”
“We're just having to do
without water,” he said.
"I’m not in bad shape
because I don’t have any
little kids or sick people
here, but I imagine there's
a lot of families out here
who are in real trouble."1
Asked if the water com-
pany was working on the
(See WATER—Page 21
cials said the concrete
block and sheet metal
warehouse was not dam-
aged severely, although all
of the bundles of collapsed
boxes probably were ru-
ined eittier by fire or wa-
ter.
Koch said the fire was
set in a shipping office in
the northeast comer of the
BRUSSELS (AP) —
Prime Minister Edward
Heath of Britain today
signed the treaty to make
Britain a member of the
European Common Mar-
ket. He urged a new,
greater united Europe that
would have better rela-
tions with the Soviet Union
and its allies.
Heath signed along with
the prime ministers of Ire-
land, Norway and Den-
mark who also seek to be-
come full members of the
trading bloc Jan. 1. The
present members are
France, West Germany, It-
aly, the Netherlands, Lux-
embourg and Belgium.
“We in Britain," Heath
said, “have every reason
to wish for better relations
with the states of Eastern
Europe. And we do sin-
cerely want them.
“Our new partners on
the continent have shown
that their feelings are the
same. Henceforth our ef-
forts can be united.”
Heath's short speech did
not mention the United
States. He referred once to
links with the Common-
wealth, which he said
would help Britain “con-
tribute to the universal na-
ture of Europe’s responsi-
bility."
The ceremony at the Eg-
mont Palace marked a cli-
max in Britain’s effort of
more than a decade to join
the Common Market.
Heath said clear think-
ing would be needed to
recognize that each mem-
ber remains proudly at-
tached to its national iden-
tity. At the same time, he
went on, all have come to
recognize their common
European heritage.
When the candidates be-
come full members Jan. 1,
1973, the expanded 10-na-
tion market will have a
population of 257.242,000—
greater than that of the So-
(See ENGLAND—Page 2)
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atures were to spread
across the state by Sun-
day.
Trooper Dick Goodman,
Weatherford, suffered a
fracture of his leg between
the knee and hip when
struck by the hurtling car
NEW YORK (AP)—Britain's entry into
the Common Market may have a more serious
impact on the United States than first expect-
ed.
Original estimates that the British action
would mean a $100 million a year loss in foreign The Common Market formed In 1958, in-
trade by the United States have been revised eludes most of the industrial nations of Western
and it now appears the loss will be nearly $1 Europe. Their goods can move from one to an-
bilhon. - other without paying duties. U.S. goods will
have to pay the regular tariffs.
The British moves into the Market will be
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lead car in the caravan
and then smashed into the
second car, the witnesses
said. The Dewey youth,
who also was killed, was
alone in his car.
A one-car crash also in-
volving four young people,
claimed the life of a young
Sasakwa man in another
wreck just two hours later
3*/2 miles west of Sasakwa
on S.H. 56 in Seminole
County.
Dead are:
- GARY DEAN CLARK,
18, Dewey.
’ RANDOLPH J.
SELL, 18, Ochelota.
NANCY GRAY, 16, Ra-
mona.
DIANE RIC H E Y, 16,
Ramona.
DOROTHY GRAY, 18,
Ramona.
MONTE GENE WELCH,
21, Sasakwa.
The Rev. Charles Ri-
chey, pastor of the Happy
Hill Church, his wife and
their two other children
were among those who
witnessed the five-fatality
tragedy in which their
daughter, Diane, was one
of the victims.
’•'The other car (driven
by Clark) just came
across the centerline and
missed the first car in the
caravan and then smashed
into the second one," the
Rev. J. L. Sullivent, Tulsa,
general superintendent for
the Church of God of the
Apostolic Faith, said from
the Richey home in Ra-
mona today.
"The other car crowded
the first car off the road.
Andy Gott, one of our
church members was driv-
ing it," Mr. Sullivent said.
ADAK ISLAND, Alaska
(AP) — The first of two
Soviet herring boats seized
in U.S. water® Monday ar-
rived here under UJS.
Coast Guard escort early
today. The second ship is
due later today.
Some 100 newsmen and
assorted military person-
nel were on hand as the
processing ship Lamut ar-
rived at the Navy dock.
Russian crewmen lined the
rails of the vessel, which
bore a yellow hammer and
sickle on a red band
around the smokestack.
The crew members were
quiet but grinned at televi-
sion crews.
Fifteen minutes later the
Coast Guard icebreaker
Storis arrived, bearing a
handmade canvas sign
across the bridge with the
ship's name in Russian
characters.
Six hours behind was the
trawler Koly van under
watch of the cutter Bal-
sam.
The two ships were
seized Monday near St.
Matthew Island about 200
mil* west of the Alaska
mainland. Authorities said
the ships were apprehend-
ed for illegal fishery sup-
port activity — transfer-
ring supplies or fish —
>lightly more than two
miles inside the UJS. 13-
mile limit.
BULLETIN
the flames. First firemen
on the scene were replaced
by another shift about 6:30
a.m. ‘
Liebegott said a con-
crete wall prevented
flames from entering an-
other warehouse to the
east of the burning struc-
ture, although firefighters
stood by Inside that build-
ing to keep the flames
from spreading.
Smoke from the fire
drifted with a southerly
wind and was noticeable
as far as a mile away at
times.
Police blockaded SW 29
for about six blocks in
front of the warehouse to
protect fire hoses.
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