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Wednesday evening
December 18, 1974
Contents Copyright, 1974, The Oklahoma Publishing Co.
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Stubborn
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By Shorty Shelburne
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Temperature
drop forecast
Brinegar
quits post
in cabinet
They, as well as the other cabinet
members, were holdovers from the
Richard M. Nixon administration.
This season two attractive young
HEW employees, Julie Frasner and
Linda Hudock, volunteered to help.
Roberta shelled $56.30 out of his own
pocket for the costumes they select-
ed: miniskirt-length red suits with
white trim and red leotards to
match.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary
of Transportation Claude S. Brine-
gar today announced he will resign
effective Feb. 1,1975.
No mention was made of a succes-
sor.
fenae spending was also reported.
While the harvest was the second
largest in Soviet history after the
record 1973 yield of 222.5 million
tons, the Soviets again entered the
firm in so many words that Be-
zich had been given uncondi-
tional amnesty as he said.
The officials did confirm that
he was free and they placed no
requirements on him for report-
ing regularly to them on his ac-
tivities.
Wilbur Gardner, a staff train-
ing coordinator at the El Reno
reformatory, confirmed today
"Whatever arrangements
were made at the treatment
center in Chicago, we wouldn't
know about," Gardner said.
There also was a $50 million defi-
cit in foreign investment in the Unit-
ed States, down from a $1.7 billion
surplus in the second quarter.
The Commerce Department said
this change was due largely to a big
payment made to a foreign petrole-
um affiliate of domestic oil compa-
nies. There was speculation this pay-
ment was made to the Arabian
American Oil Co. (Aramco), a Saudi
Arabian affiliate of several major oil:
companies which is due to be taken
over soon by the Saudi government.
The balance of payments reported
today is for the category of current
account and long-term capital, also
known as the basic balance. This is
considered the most important of
several balance of payments catego-
ries.
The quarterly deficit on record
was $3.9 billion in the first quarter of
1972, Commerce Department figures
showed.
food, clothing and toys has increased
15 per cent and that with lagging
contributions it amounts to 20 per
cent less purchasing power.
Major Salmon said toy distribution
will begin today.
By Vivian Vahlberg
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Senate to-
day confirmed the nomination of H.
Dale Cook to be U.S. district judge
for Oklahoma, replacing retiring
Judge Luther T. Bohanon.
Cook will be sworn in after he re-
turns this weekend from Washing-
ton, where he has served for three
and a half years as director of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U”
ed States had a deficit in its balance
of payments with other nations of
$3.6 billion in the third quarter of the
year, the second biggest three-month
deficit on record, the Commerce De-
partment reported today.
The high cost of foreign oil has
been a major factor in the nation's
worsening payments position this
year. The payments deficit for the
first nine months of 1974 totaled $4.3
billion, compared with a total deficit
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HEW has a large contingent of
hard-core feminists, and the wrath
of liberated womanhood soon de-
scended on Roberts. There were at
least 15 complaints from the depart-
ment's 130,000 employees.
"They felt I was using scantily
clad women to entice men to contrib-
ute," Roberts said.
The departments' Federal Wom-
en's Program demanded that the
girls cover up, because miniskirt
suits degraded all female workers
and reduced their status to the level
of "chicks."
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Payments deficit
The Commerce Department also
said U.S. direct investments abroad
increased $400 million in the third
quarter to total $2 billion.
The nation's balance on goods and
services traded with other nations
was in balance by $300 million, up
$100 million from the second quar-
ter.
weatheR
State: Widely scattered showers
in east tonight. Clearing Thursday
and cooler. Lows tonight upper
teens to low 30s. Highs Thursday
in 40s. (Details, Page 41.)
that Bezich had left there about
Dec. 9 or 10.
"We released him to the fed-
e r a 1 Community Treatment
Center in Chicago and he went
from there to his parents,"
Gardner said.
He said he had no plans for a new
job at this point but would make a
decision after the first of the year.
Brinegar was a senior vice president
of Union Oil Co. before taking the
transportation post.
President Ford praised Brinegar's
service as secretary and credited
Brinegar with the articulation of a
national transportation policy, the
first such policy ever developed.
Ford said the passage of the Re-
gional Rail Reorganization Act and
the Mass Transportation Assistance
Act were the legislative highlights of
Brinegar's term as secretary.
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"Our problem is that donations are
down while requests for help are
up," he said.
"If we provide the same services
(See KETTLE—Page 2)
Brinegar said his tenure as secre-
tary had been "exciting and educa-
tional" but said he felt "now is the
time for me to return to the private
sector.
A meeting of interested HEW em-
(See RUCKUS—Page 2)
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De-
and
dis-
crimination is a daily concern, some
of his sentence, said he was ap-
proached by an associate war-
den at El Reno Dec. 9, and re-
ceived verbal assurance from
the official that his release had
no strings attached.
The Chicago draft resister
was the only one of 84 Ameri-
cans in prison fer draft resist-
ance who refused jo accept
President Ford's "conditional
clemency plan" last September.
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The "gentlemen's agreement"
that he was free with no strings
attached would make him the
only one of the draft resisters to
come out with what is, in effect,
unconditional amnesty.
Despite what Bezich was
quoted as saying in Chicago,
where he and some other draft
resisters attended a meeting
Tuesday, federal officials at El
Reno and Chicago did not con-
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Russell M. Roberta and controversial Santa helpers Julie
Frasner, left, and Linda Hudock. (AP Wirephoto)
Santys scanties
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Brinegar was the second member
of Ford’s cabinet to resign. Atty.
Gen. William Saxbe stepped down
last week to become ambassador to
India.
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Gardner said he was not
aware of any conversation Be-
zich might have had with an El
Reno reformatory official be-
fore he left.
"I will try to check on it,"
Gardner said.
In Chicago, Robert F. Thomp-
son, an official at the new feder-
al Metropolitan Corrections
See RELEASE—Page 2)
WASHINGTON (AP)-In the
partment of Health, Education
Welfare, where race and sex
staffers spied "sexploitation" when
two o| Santa's helpers showed up
this year strolling the corridors in
scanty costumes.
A meeting was called to hear out
the offended staffers Tuesday. Santa
himself was put on trial, as one par-
ticipant put it.
The verdict after a tumultuous
hour-long session was not guilty.
The Santa was Russell M. Rob-
erts HEW's freedom of information
officer. For the last seven years
Roberts has donated his time to di-
rect the charitable HEW Christmas
EL RENO — Steven Bezich,
25, who had been serving a
three-year sentence in the El
Reno Federal Reformatory for
draft resistance, was back
home in Chicago today and said
he received an unconditional re-
lease under a
agreement."
ton target A slight reduction in de- sians wanted.
On hand for the session was the
complete Politburo membership ex-
cept for Yuri Andropov, chief of the
secret police. Party chief Leonid I.
Brezhnev, who will be 68 on Thurs-
Lagging contributions in the Salva-
tion Army's annual kettle campaign,
coupled with inflation, could force
cutbacks in holiday food baskets for
the needy, officials said today.
"We are running about five per
cent behind this same time a year
ago," said Major Orville Salmon, di-
vision commander for the Salvation
Army in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
”We feel quite fortunate that we
are not having the problem that ex-
ists in Chicago and Detroit areas
for all of 1973 of $1 billion.
The third quarter deficit of $3.6
billion compared with a deficit of
$2.5 billion in the second quarter.
There was a $1.8 billion surplus in
the first quarter.
A major factor in the worsening
payments picture in the third quar-
ter was an increase of $1 billion in
long-term private capital outflows,
which doubled the second quarter to-
tal.
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El Reno inmate tells of ^gentlemen’s agreement’
"But," he added, "the fact that
contributions here are running five
per cent behind last year poses a
problem for us.
"We will have to start trimming
somewhere and since toys already
are purchased that leaves food cut-
backs as our only choice if contribu-
tions do not pick up."
He said the cost of items such as
and not start off with a prejudicial
attitude and apply the law as it is
supposed to be applied in all cases.
Cook had hoped to start for Okla-
homa today, but the moving compa-
ny was delayel and will not pick up
his furniture until tomorrow. He said
he expects to be back in Oklahoma
Saturday or Sunday, but no arrange-
ments have yet been made for his
swearing in.
He has rented an apartment in
Tulsa for six months and will look
for a house when he gets back. He
will sell his home in Oklahoma Qty.
Cook will be judge for the north-
ern, western and eastern districts of
Oklahoma, but has said he expects
to spend most of his time in Tulsa
because of a large backlog of cases
there.
"I've been a practicing lawyer for
a long time, so I think I know what
to do as a judge," Cook said. Asked
if he hoped to emulate any particu-
lar judge. Cook said there were sev-
(See JUDGE—Page 2)
police state?
NEW YORK (AP)—An American
partment's corridors, he helps col- missionary banished from South Ko-
lect some $1,800 a year and mounds rea after serving there for 20 years
of toys, clothing and canned food for says he fears that the same fate
needy families in Washington's may befall other missionaries there.
The Rev. George E. Ogle told a
news conference at the Inter-church
Center Tuesday that South Korean
President Chung Hee Park has
turned the country into a violent
"police state."
"Park is especially fearful of the
Christians in Korea for they repre-
sent a large community which he
has not been able to dominate," the
United Methodist minister from Pit-
cairn, Pa., said.
Federal judge confirmed
Bureau of Hearings and Appeals of
the Social Security Administration.
Cook, whose family stayed in
Oklahoma City during his Washing-
ton assignment, said he was "re-
lieved to be leaving this area to get
back home. I'm really looking for-
ward to getting back to Oklahoma."
Cook said as a judge, "The impor-
tant thing is to keep an open mind
to be jolly!
Traditional Christmas trees have been erected in most offices
of the police headquarters building, but officers of the commu-
nity relations division have something different.
Gracing the desk of Officer Bill Branum is a dead-looking,
leafless branch stuck in a paper cup with one bullet suspended
from a twig by a thread.
A visitor to the office, against all better judgment, is bound to
ask what that's supposed to be.
And the answer — obviously, they say — is a cartridge in a
bare tree.
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A cold front moving across the
state today was expected to bring
cloudy skies and lower temperatures
tonight and Thursday.
Forecasters were calling for varia-
ble cloudiness today, but skies were
to clear by Thursday. Although a
high in the mid-50s was expected to-
day, temperatures will probably dip
by 10 degrees on Thursday.
The low tonight was expected to be
in the mid-20s.
The cold front moving rapidly MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Un-
across the state produced only a ion today unveiled modest economic
slight chance of some scattered light plans for next year, the final year of
rain in eastern areas of the state to-
night. No moisture was expected in
the Oklahoma City area.
The wind in the Oklahoma City
area was southerly this morning _ _ ||___
with gusts from 14 to 24 miles per Baibakov also revealed that this The U.S. government canceled the
hour. It was to shift to northerly this year's grain harvest was 195.5 mil- sale and then agreed to provida
afternoon and diminish tonight. lion tons, down from a 205.6 million- about two-thirds of what the Rus-
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Food program in
Kettle campaign lagging
where contributions are down about
50 per cent.
a five-year plan that will fall short of
original targets in many important
sectors.
In a speech to the Supreme Soviet, tight international grain market this day, chatted with Premier Alexei N.
State Planning Chairman Nikolai
Baibakov also revealed that this
looked well, despite reports from the )ar judge, Cook said there
(See SOVIET—Page 2)
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