Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 293, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 28, 1975 Page: 1 of 26
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January 28,1975
Contents Copyright, 1975, The Oklahoma Publishing G
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Civil Defense ration rancid
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JURY INDICTS PRISON GUARDS
from gassing
Charges ste
Stock mart
Lawmaker tries
Love
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By Wain Miller
Gov. David Boren says he remains ond day in a row to wrestle with the
Increasingly optimistic about pas*
sage of his tax trimming program,
"very, very
By Vlviaa Vahlberg and Shorty Shel-
burne
The romance brought the Navy of- \
fleer's expulsion from Russia and
eight years of Siberian imprison-
ment for his lover.
By Ron Wolfe
Rancid cracker, anyone?
We have plenty to go around — 600
tons of them in Oklahoma City. And
they are just as wholesome now as
they would have been 12 years ago,
when they were stocked into the
bomb shelters, except for that one
little drawback:
Mitchell said crackers are stored
in or near some 260 bomb shelters
throughout Oklahoma City — includ-
(See CRACKERS—Page 2)
A third count charged Cacy with
striking and assaulting inmates Jo-
seph Buckaloo and David M. Collins
on May 21 while they were confined
in the maximu-segregation building
of the penitentiary. A fourth count
charged Cohen, Nail, and former
guards Kelly Standridge and James
W. Young, both of McAlester, aided
and abetted by Cacy, with gassing
inmates on the third tier of the west
cellhouse on May 22.
These two counts carry a maxi-
mum penalty of one year in prison
and a $1,000 fine for each count «
tax question.
House Speaker Bill Willis purpose-
ly did not put the issue to a vote
Monday, instead scheduling the sec-
ond caucus, at which figures from
the tax commission were to be dis-
cussed concerning the effect on av-
ious compromise possibilities.
"If the reduction program meant a
big savings to the average citizen,
there's not a on* of us who would r*-
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Now, the 77-year-old retired rear
admiral, Jackson R. Tate, says sto-
ries of his romance may hurt his
daughter he has never met.
VE Day when you lay in my arms
and Victoria was conceived and we
decided if it was a boy it would be
Victor and if a girl Victoria for the
great victory the world had
achieved."
NEW YORK (AP) - Stock prices
continued to rise slightly in extreme-
ly heavy trading today, spurred by
falling interest rates and a glittering
performance by International Busi-
ness Machines Corp., a Big Board
favorite.
Final homo
LOTCST STOCKS
with Russian actress Zoya Fyodoro-
va, now 63.
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Before Tate learned that Zoya was
pregnant, he was declared persona
non grata and given 72 hours to
(See ROMANCE—Page 2)
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Victoria, 29, is the daughter of a
Soviet film star and a U.S. Navy at-
tache.
Cook sentenced Hall to five years
in prison but he suspended three
years and ordered him to prison for
two. Hall has been free pending an
appeal.
"I told her that a meeting would
not be proper and that I have al-
ready passed on this matter," Cook
said. "There won't be any private
meetings on this case.
"I don't want to infer that the call
weatheR
Local: Variable cloudiness and
continued cool through Wednes-
day. Probability of precipitation
40 per cent tonight. Low tonight
mid-308. High Wednesday upper
40s. (Details, Page 17.)
The Dow Jones average of 30 in-
dustrials rose 1.72 to 694.38 at 1 p.m.
and advances broadened their lead
over declines to a 5-1 margin on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Extraordinarily heavy trading ran
as much as seven minutes ahead of
the exchange's high-speed ticker
tape. More than 17 million shares
changed hands in the first two hours
of trading.
"The heavy activity draws buyers
into the market. People are now
more afraid of missing a market
than they are of a long recession,"
said Robert Stovall of Reynolds Se-
curities, a leading Wall Street bro-
kerage firm.
IBM, which resumed trading to-
day, posted a monumental $25,125 a
share rise to $188 a share from Fri-
day's close. The stock was halted
after the close.
Investors bought 85,000 shares of
IBM as soon as it opened today.
"It was all very quick, you know,"
Tate said. "Zoya and I met at a par-
ty given by Molotov. Several months
later Stalin didn't like it, didn't like
me and didn't like us keeping close
company.
"He threw me out of Russia and
Boren optimistic
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Our Times
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Vital Statistics
Women's New*
A fifth count charged Cohen with
making false statements to a federal
grand jury on Jan. 16, when he alleg-
edly falsely testified that Oklahoma
Highway Patrol Trooper Bennie Du-
rant participated in the decision to
use gas against the prisoners on
May 20, the indictment said.
This count carries a maximum
penalty of five years imprisonment
and a $10,000 fine.
The indictment charges that eight
of the guards "conspired to injure,
oppress, threaten and intimidate
various inmates at the Oklahoma
They stink.
This would be the average nose's
first impression, beecause these
crackers smell walloping rancid — a
condition the dictionary finds to be
"rank" and "unpleasant."
"Whew!" says it best
Yet, in a bomb shelter, how much
would a person care for the smell of
a cracker? And these are not soup
crackers, remember, but survival
crackers — hard, golden-yellow
squares that would be served by the
Civil Defense to keep a body alive.
Rancid or not, they will keep peo-
ple going, the Civil Defense reports.
No claims are being made about
their keeping people fat and content-
ed.
State Penitentiary at McAlester, all
citizens of the United States, in the
free exercise and enjoyment" of
their constitutional rights to be free
from cruel and unusual punishment.
"It was part of the plan and pur-
pose of the conspiracy that the con-
spirators would use chemical gass-
ing weapons, including 'pepper fog'
machines, 37-mm gas guns, 12-gauge
gas guns, 25-mm gas guns, gas can-
isters and other gassing weapons to
the grand jury unknown, to gas in-
mates who were then locked in soli-
tary cells of the maximum-segrega-
tion building.
"The above described conspiracy
resulted in the death of inmate Rob-
ert Forsythe," the indictment
charged.
On the charge that Cohen mad* a'
(8ee GUARDS—Page 2)
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was an attempt to pressure me,"
Cook added.
Mrs. Swinton, whose District 84
includes the Bethany area, said to-
day she made the call as friend of
Ray's (Hall), not as a legislator."
"I didn't think of being a state rep-
resentative when I called," she said.
"I was a friend of Ray Hall. Maybe I
was wrong."
Mrs. Swinton said she contacted
Cook "on behalf of some friends of
mine who thought we should speak
to the judge about the case."
"I asked the judge if we would be
able to speak with him about the
case and our knowledge of Ray Hall
and how this will affect him and the
By Don Brown
Dist. Judge David Cook said today
he was contacted Monday by a state
representative who, Cook said, want-
ed to discuss a possible reconsidera-
tion of a two-year prison sentence
handed former license tag sub-agent
Orvis Ray Hall.
Cook said he received a telephone
call Monday afternoon from Rep.
Judy Swinton, of Oklahoma City,
who requested a meeting with the
judge to discuss the Hall case.
Hall pleaded guilty late last year
to embezzling some $187,000 from
the Bethany Tag Agency which he
headed.
sequel
ORANGE PARK, Fla. (AP)-The
career of Russian actress Victoria
Fyodorova is reported in Jeopardy
over the revival of a tragic World
War II love story.
MUSKOGEE - A federal grand
jury in Muskogee today indicted
three present and seven former
Oklahoma State Penitentiary guards
on civil rights charges involving the
gassing of inmates at the McAlester
prison last May 20.
Three present and five former
guards were charged with conspir-
ing to violate the constitutional
rights of inmates to be free from
cruel and unusual punishment, dur-
ing the prison disturbance last May.
The indictment stated that the con-
spiracy included the use of chemical
gas weapons against the inmates
who were locked in solitary cells and
resulted in the death of Robert For-
sythe. Three other inmates were
hospitalized.
Two other former guards were
charged with participating in the
gassing of inmates.
The five-count indictment was re-
turned in U.S. District Court in Mus-
kogee today.
Indicted on the conspiracy count,
which carries a maximum sentence
upon conviction of life imprison-
ment, were penitentiary guard Lt.
Billy Jack Cohen, Hartshorne; Lt.
Jerry G. Holt, Quinton; and Charles
R. Kilburn, McAlester; and former
guards James R. Berryman, Mc-
Alester; John P. Brady, Eufaula;
Soviet actress Victoria Fyodorova wants to visit the father she
has never seen despite the threat to her career.
One day's menu in a bomb shelter equals this — crackers
and candy — and water.
"There are those who would say,
get rid of this stuff," noted Clyde
Mitchell, city Civil Defense director.
"But when you're the one making
the decision, you wonder — is it wise
to junk all these supplies, or ship
them out, when actually we might
need them right here at home?"
So the crackers stay, most of
them.
sent her to Siberia. She was there
for eight years before Stalin died
and they released her."
Tate had to leave the Soviet Union
in 1945. He said he never saw Zoya
again. Tate said he did not learn
about his daughter until 1973 when
an interpreter helped the old lovers
correspond.
Tate, who has lived in a retire-
ment home here for the past decade
and is a recent open heart surgery
patient, said that when he and the
blonde Zoya met she was then 34,
had been a cinema star for 10 years
and was at the height of her career.
"I loved you then and I still love
you and cherish the memories of the
short year we had together," Tate
wrote in one letter to Zoya.
Tate said the last time he and
Zoya met was Victory-in-Europe
Day in May 1945, the night Victoria
was conceived.
Of that meeting, he wrote, "I will
never forget that wonderful night of frankly banking on
strong" public pressure.
The governor made it plain he still
wants a $20.3 million slash in income ______ ___ ________
taxes plus more than $2 million in pra-p Oklahoma pocketbooks of var-
estate tax relief, but said he is will-
ing to talk "reasonable compro-
mise."
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Tate said Victoria applied for a
visa after he invited her to visit him
but that it has been ignored by Sovi-
et officials.
"I don’t know why the whole world
is interested in something that's 30
years old," said Tate while sitting
across from his wife of 11 years, Ha-
zel. "It's a true story, a true love
story."
Tate was responding to a story in
the Los Angeles Times of the affair
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Meanwhile, the most powerful
House Democrats prepared to cau-
cus behind closed
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Homer Cacy Jr., McAlester; Eddie
W. Franklin, Kinta; and Anthony R.
Nail, McAlester.
Berryman, Cacy, Cohen, Franklin,
Holt, Kilburn and Nail were charged
with a second count of willfully de-
priving inmates of their constitution-
al rights to be free from cruel and
unusual punishment. They were
charged with using chemical gas
weapons on May 20 to assault For-
sythe and other inmates, resulting in
Forsythe's death.
This count also carries a maxi-
mum penalty of life imprisonment.
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