Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 210, Ed. 2 Wednesday, October 23, 1974 Page: 1 of 19
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Wednesday evening
October 23, 1974
Contonh Copyri^t, W4, Th. Oklahoma Mrfhhiog Co.
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Vital Statistics
Women's News
The admission was drawn out in
cross-examination by defense lawyer
John J. Wilson in an apparent effort
to discredit Dean's character before
the eyes of the jury.
In two days of cross-examination,
Wilson has yet to attack the sub-
stance of Dean's narration of how he
participated for nine months in cov-
ering up the Watergate scandals.
Defense lawyers acknowledge pri-
vately that six White House tapes
heard by the jury so far make it dif-
ficult to dent the testimony given by
Dean during five days on the witness
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Thursday. Low tonight 50s. High
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Medley said the bridge was con-
structed by the State Highway De-
partment, then was turned over to
the city, "and we have to do the
maintenance," although the express-
way is U.S. 66, a major state high-
way.
widely used because of its useful-
ness in a variety of infections, is re-
ported in short supply both in Okla-
homa City and elsewhere.
Shortages of quinidine, a heart
drug, and heparin, an anticoagulant,
were reported by some Oklahoma
City hospital pharmacists and some
reported borrowing from other hos-
pitals to meet needs. .
"The shortages are not yet critical
Dean: "Yes, sir,"
Dean's blonde wife, Maureen,
was present in the courtroom as he
described the use of the funds.
The former White House counsel
acknowledged that although he
placed a $4,850 check written to cash
in his office safe with the balance of
the funds, there was not an adequate
balance in his checking account to
cover tha^pmount.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, right, talks with newsmen
at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., prior to his departure for the So-
viet Union. Nancy Kissinger stands nearby, listening to her hus-
band. (AP Wirephoto) Story on Page 5.
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nate Aristotle Onassis.
The jailed men, all former army •
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Upper level of this tri-level Lincoln Blvd, bridge is
Medley also disputed the claim of
Gov. David Hall's highway commis-
sion that the city would not be out
any money if the NW 10 bridge is re-
placed by the highway department.
"People have been led to believe
that because the governor named
that one of the 10 most dangerous
spots, it will be replaced at no cost
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■ them I am not a fortune hunter" —
B and that Miss Fitler said at her
■ home near Philadelphia:
B* "I have no intention of changing
H my mind. The more they press me,
B the more determined I am to marry
B Mr. Wilson."
■ The newspaper said Miss Filler's
■ lawyers "were expected to make one
H more attempt today to get the couple
B to call if off."
■ "I think it is^because I am a min-
Bg er's son that they feel I am not fitted
9 to marry Miss Fitler." said Wilson,
j ,t handM.mr 25l-ve;u old who is visit ■
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|K Miss Fitler today.
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■f Wilson said the difference in their
11 ages is irrelevant because their rela-
| tionship is based on companionship.
I "Is she 77?" he asked. "I'd never
El have thought she was as much as
I that and, of course, being a gentle-
k. man, I never asked."
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The train dragged the crumpled
bus several hundred feet down the
track, police said.
When the train came to a halt, the
caboose was derailed and fell on
top of the overturned bus.
The Polk County
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collapse, city
bearing devices called "rockers,"
which have the function of allowing
the bridge to expand and contract
with heat and cold.
choirboy announced through a news-
paper in Llay that he was going to
marry the aunt of Vice President-
designate Nelson A. Rockefeller's
second wife, the former Margaretta
"Happy" Fitler.
Miss Fitler and Mrs. Rockefeller
are joint heiresses to the Fitler for-
tune, at one time valued at more
than $8 million.
Reports on Miss Filler's age have
varied from 61 upwards. Two mem-
bers of her staff at her home in an
exclusive Philadelphia suburb said
she is in her 80s.
"I would never have dreamed she
was much over 60," said Wilson, who
met Miss Fitler while he was work-
ing as a butler at the exclusive
Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.
"I learned to respect her intelli-
(See HEIRESS—Page 2)
stand under prosecution questioning.
Dean testified in detail before the
Senate Watergate Committee about
his personal use of money from the
White House fund. Its significance in
the trial is how it affects the jury's
opinion of his character and honesty.
Under cross-examination today,
Dean testified that $15,200 in cash
was delivered to his office by White
House aide Gordon Strachan.
Dean told the jury, "there were
many $100 bills, $50 bills and small-
er bills."
Dean said that on Oct. 12,1972, the
eve of his honeymoon, he took out
$4,850, part of which was spent on
the trip and part of which was used
for miscellaneous expenditures over
the next six months.
Wilson repeatedly questioned Dean
about the propriety of using the
funds without advising anyone at the
White House.
"For a period of six months you
used money that didn't belong to
ported that the bus driver, Billy Kel- y°“- didn't yoi?" Wilson asked.
left, had been killed. But police later
said he was hospitalized in critical
condition.
By Ervin Watson
Oklahoma City area hospitals and
pharmacists are feeling the pinch of
drug shortages but the situation has
not yet reached the critical propor-
tions reported in some parts of the
nation.
Chicago area pharmacists have
termed the shortage the worst in al-
most a half century.
Ampicillin, an injectable antibiotic
Medley said the rocker plates
"long out" as the bridge expands in
length with the sun's heat, and have
not reacted when the bridge con-
tracts again.
"This has happened so many times
the rockers are 30 degrees out of
plumb. Just a tiny bit more and the
whole sub-structure will drop to the
ground," he said.
Any collapse would be almost cer-
tain to cause a similar collapse of
the second level bridge, and Medley
said the structure will have to be
closed if the city cannot come up
with money for repairs.
The engineer estimates repairs
could cost as much as $100,000. He
said other portions of the tri-level
The government announced Tues-
day that Papadopoulos has been un-
der house arrest for the last three
weeks "for making conspiratorial
moves." There have been persistent
reports that leaders of the ousted
military regime were plotting to
make a comeback.
neer, said the bridge is
very serious hazard. "
"I would say it is critical. If noth-
ing is done, it will collapse within six
months," Medley declared.
Medley made the statements about
the bridge condition in a meeting of
the citizens' bond watchdog commit-
tee, and elaborated on them later.
Medley said the NW 10 street
bridge over the North Canadian Riv-
er also is hazardous, but not nearly
so much as the Lincoln bridge.
He said the problem is caused by
By Mary Jo Nelson
The upper level of a tri-level
bridge at Northeast Expressway and
Lincoln Blvd, is about to collapse
and will have to be closed within 90
days unless repaired, an Oklahoma
City engineer disclosed today.
Merrel Medley, public works engi-
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structure also need repairs, but only
the upper is "critical."
"We're not going to let It collapse.
But we will have to close it within 90
days," he said.
Since his overthrow by another
military junta a year ago, Papado-
poulos had been living quietly in the
seaside villa 50 miles from Athens
that he rented from shipping mag- t
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ble for them to escape from Greece
while the leaders of the military dic-
tatorship are being investigated.
The government warned that it is
prepared to counter "with determi-
nation any suspicious movements of
those responsible for seven years of
dictatorship."
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A spokesman for Southern Rail-
way in Washington said the trai ’
was moving about eight miles per
hour.
The accident occurred between the
towns of Rockmart and Aragon,
about 35 miles j^rthwest of Atlanta.
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LONDON (AP) - The London
Evening News reported today that
lawyers for Happy Rockefeller's
aunt Rachel Fitler had offered
Welsh barman Michael Wilson
$48,000 not to marry the millionair-
ess nearly 50 years his senior.
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Dean said, however, that he had
other personal funds, including a
stock brokerage account totalling
$80,000 at one point, which he was
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former
White House counsel John W. Dean
III testified at the Watergate cover-
up trial today that in 1972 and 1973
he made personal use of $4,850 with-
drawn from a $350,000 secret White
House fund.
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Mild, if not pretty, weather cov-
ered Oklahoma again today, and
forecasters said more or less the
same situation could linger through
Sunday.
A low pressure trough west of the
state and a flow of moist southerly
air combined to produce clouds,
scattered light showers and temper-
atures in the soothing 70s.
Showers had pattered here and
there across western and northern
areas all night, yielding generally
less than half-inch amounts. Odds
>re 20 per cent for more moisture
there through Thursday.
ATHENS (AP)—Former dictator
George Papadopoulos and four of his
closest associates have been arrest-
ed and exiled to a remote part of
Greece on charges of plotting to re-
gain power, the government an-
nounced today.
The announcement said those ar-
rested with Papadopoulos were his
former deputy premiers, Stylianos
Patakos and Nicholas Makarezos;
one of the hard-line ministers in his
regime. loannis Ladas, and the for-
mer chief of the central intelligence
agency, Michael Roufogalis.
Authoritative sources said the five
men were taken to the small island
of Kea, about 60 miles southeast of
Athens.
The government's announcement
said Papadopoulos and the other
four "undertook conspiratorial activ-
ity, creating anxiety and the condi-
tions conducive to the disturbance of
public peace and order, at a time
when the people are being sum-
moned to exercise their sovereign
rights for the completion of demo-
cratic legality."
This was a reference to the parlia-
mentary elections — Greece's first
in more than 10 years — that the re-
form regime of Premier Constantine
Caramanlis has scheduled for Nov.
17.
The announcement also indicated
that more charges will probably be
filed against the five men. It said
their confinement made it impossi-
7 killed on school bus
ROCKMART, Ga. (AP) — A work been called to the scene of a derail-
train backed into a loaded school bus ment during the night and was back-
at a railroad crossing today, killing ing UP alon8 the tracks when it hit
at least seven children, authorities thebus<
reported.
Police said there were about 30
children, mostly 10 to 14 years old,
aboard the bus. Beside the dead,
most of the others on the bus were
injured, some seriously.
Witnesses said the repair train had
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drugs
but we are concerned that the prob-
lem could become critical if it
should continue," said Dr. Arthur
Elliott, past president of the Oklaho-
ma County Medical Society.
He said heparin was in very short
supply for about one week this sum-
mer but that the situation appears to
have eased in recent weeks. j
Tate Taylor, executive secretary
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