Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 56, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 19, 1975 Page: 1 of 58
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Wednesday evening
March 19,1975
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Zahn for Congress?
Wendy says it’s
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Wendy Zahn
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House committee acts
to curb Rogers’ power
ment board.
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Allies abandon
backer
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sues city
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W. E. McCrary
Book dealer gets suspended term
Plea ends obscenity
case
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The llth-hour plea agreement was
(See DEALER—Page 2)
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Widower aid denial voided
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briefed In advance of the oper-
(See SUR-Page 2) .
ma, State Fair.
The lawsuit contends that the per*
operation was likely, but he declined
to provide details.
Other government officials said,
cious" and in violation of state con-
(8ee SUIT-Page 21
problems at a similar event in
Hutchinson, Kan.
By Don Brown
A celebrated 4-year-long court bat*
tie over the question of obscenity in
Oklahoma, which consumed some
150,000 in legal fees, ended today
with a solemn guilty plea by a Law-
ton book dealer.
W. E. McCrary, who says he is an
Rep. Lynn Thornhill, R-Wakita,
said, "I think we'll look stupid under
existing circumstances."
Davis said he didn't feel an office
of an elected official should be
placed under the merit system. "If
we elect them they ought to have
ordained Baptist minister and for-
mer evangelist, was accused of dis-
tributing obscene literature in Okla-
homa County more than four years
ago. He entered the guilty plea after
Dist. Atty. Curtis P. Harris agreed
to reduce the felony charge to a mis-
demeanor count.
some control over the direction the
office takes," he said.
The House bill removes the secre-
tary of state from the Oklahoma
Building Bonds Commission, state
emergency fund, and from the trus-
tees of the public employees retire-
disclosed only moments before Asso-
ciate Oklahoma County Dist. Judge
Asked why the lieutenant governor
should replace the secretary, Rep.
Hannah D. Atkins, D-Oklahoma City,
said, "We felt like we needed some-
one with a little broader scope to
(See ROGERS—Page 2)
The move follows the abandon-
ment Monday of the three western
provinces in the Central Highlands
— Kontum, Pleiku and Barlac. The
government said it could not hold
those provinces, which cover 11,000
square miles and have more than
half a million people, after North Vi-
etnamese forces cut all overland
supply routes.
ly has four infantry divisions and
two antiaircraft divisions in the re-
gion, its 30,000 troops outnumbering
Rep. Don Davis, D-Lawton, com-
mittee vice-chairman, argued that
the public will be convinced that the
The court held 8 to 0 that it is un-
constitutional sex discrimination to
limit such benefits to widows.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su-
preme Court today struck down a
SAIGON (AP) — South Vietnam is
abandoning a fourth province,
Quang Tri, to the fast encroaching
North Vietnamese and is considering
giving up Thua Thien, which in-
cludes the old imperial capital of
Hue, government officials disclosed
today.
About 100,000 panicky civilians
were reported fleeing southward to-
ward Da Nang from the cities of
Quang Tri and Hue. The area is on
the northern coast below the demili-
tarized zone, where heavy fighting
has been under way for two weeks.
Field reports from Hue said resi-,
dents were urged to leave, but mili-
tary units and male civil servants
Action Liae
Amusements
Bridge
Business News
Classified Section
Comics
Deaths
Our Times
Sports
TV Log
Vital Statistics
Women's News
58 PAGES
VOL. LXXXVI, NO. 23
281,098
Evening-Morning Dally
Paid Circulation
Average in February
Demerol.
She added, "The fight in me was
gone, every bit of it." She said in one
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Zahn said he has assured the
Maine residents who oppose develop-
ment in the area: "I’m not going to
do something here I wouldn't be
proud of in my own area."
The corporation is developing the
area into private residences.
In a separate concurring opinion,
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. said that
"when the mother is a principal
wage earner, the family may suffer
(See RULING—Page 2)
Great spring
Thursday should be equally
peachy, forecasters said. For that
matter, sunshine is expected to last
at least through the weekend.
Ready, set, go!
On her mark for her dally log and a second term as mayor is
Patience Latting, who continued her phenomenal political ca-
reer by winning a new term without a runoff In Tuesday's pri-
mary election. Despite organized opposition from hundreds of
Oklahoma City employees, the mayor won a 52.8 per cent major-
ity over three opponents. (Staff photo by George Tapscott)
Story Page 8; Box-by-box results Page 8.
Under the ruling, widowers will
become eligible for the same bene-
fits available to widows.
"It is no less important for a child
to be cared for by its sole surviving
parent when that parent is male
rather than female," Justice William
J. Brennan Jr. said for the court.
Issue of ill juror ‘pretty weak’
chambers of Chief U.S. Dist. Judge
Fred Daugherty Friday afternoon,
an hour before the verdict was an-
nounced, for questioning about her
of the other jurors had tried to health and to give permission for her
doctors to discuss her treatment.
During the city council meeting
Tuesday, concern was voiced that
the event would attract a vocal and
troublesome group of people who ap-
peared at a similar affair in Hutch-
inson, Kan., causing some com-
ing out the highly classified salvage plaints.
Shea alleged in the lawsuit that
the only reason the permit * was
turned down was because "at a simi-
however, the operation was designed lar event in Hutchinson, Kan., at a
By Jim Young
A legislative committee today vot-
ed to remove Secretary of State
John Rogers from all statutory
boards on which he serves and de-
cided to place all his employees un-
der the merit system.
• The action by the House Appropri-
ations Committee came less than
two weeks after Rogers served as
the chief witness in the attempted
bribery trial of David Hall that led
to the former governor's conviction.
In addition to reducing Rogers' au-
thority and removing employees
from his control, the House commit-
tee reduced Rogers' office staff from
19 to 16 employees.
"This keeps them from soliciting
campaign funds," chairman John
Miskelly Jr. said in supporting the •
merit system move.
"We did it to the corporation com-
mission and they've got a tougher
race than the secretary of state," he
said.
Having found out how to do it, the
Oklahoma sun shone with vigor to-
day, presiding over what the Nation-
al Weather Service smugly termed
"a great spring day."
Thermometers were heading into
the 70s. The high pressure mass cen-
tered over north central Texas also
The judge also asked the jurors kept the south winds at a lazy pace,
after their verdict had been an-
nounced if they concurred in the
guilty verdict and if not, to tell him
(See VERDICT—Page 2)
mit so he may stage the cycle event
scheduled for May 17 and 18.
The city council deadlocked 3-3
Tuesday on the request by Shea for
'/ the permit.
As a result of the tie vote, the city
council declined to approve the per-
mit.
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fourth province
were ordered to remain on duty. Or-
ders were sent to the government ra-
dio station in Hue to be prepared to
destroy all equipment should the sit-
uation become critical.
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Since the cease-fire agreement
was signed more than two years
ago, the Saigon government has lost
or abandoned 24 of its 244 district
capitals. Of the provinces, five out of
44 have fallen or been abandoned.
District capitals are the equivalent
of county seats, while provincial
capitals are the equivalent of state
capitals.
Western and Vietnamese analysts
said the decision to pull out of Quang
Tri was made for strategic reasons
__________________________o_ and approved by President Nguyen
Joe Cannon was to convene a jury Varyliiieu. North Vietnam reported-
this morning to begin trying the case
for the third time.
In addition, Police Chief I. G. Pur-
ser said several stabbings and citi-
zens' complaints of noise and harass-
ment from motorcyclists were re-
ported at the Hutchinson event.
The lawsuit was filed this morning
by Shea's attorney, Carroll E.
Gregg, and lists as defendants Saun-
ders, Mayor Patience Latting, city
council members and other city offi-
cials.
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By Mary Je Nelson
Ward 1 City Councilman Tony
Zahn is going to run for Congress,
his wife, Wendy, revealed during an
interview in Maine.
In return for McCrary's guilty South Vietnamese regulars two-to-
plea, Harris recommended and one-
CopyriflM, 1973, Th. Oklahoma PuMtNng Co.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency last sum-
mer recovered part of a Soviet nu-
clear submarine that sank in the Pa-
cific Ocean in 1968, administration
and congressional officials said to-
day.
Senate Majority Leader Mike
Mansfield said a congressional in-
vestigation into the wisdom of carry-
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ocean bottom, neither the codes nor
the missiles were recovered, offi-
cials said. (
Senior members of Congress with
responsibility for overseeing the CIA mit denial was "arbitrary and capri-
were briefed in advance of the oper- dzx" L. ~ ~
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"The basic concept is that a juror
can't impeach his own verdict."*
Mrs. Meyer, who became ill dur-
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Local: Fair and warmer
through Thursday. Low tonight
mid-40s. High Thursday upper
70s. (Details, Page 44.)
The organizer of a motorcycle rac-
ing event went to court today in an
attempt to reverse an Oklahoma
City Council denial of a permit to
stage the rally at the fairgrounds
grandstand and track.
Hugo Shea of Hugo's Harley-Dav-
idson, 407 N Rockwell, asked Oklaho-
ma County District Court to order
the city council to issue a rental per- vote came after city public House committee was acting to pun-
events Director Dan Saunders urged ish Rogers for his testimony against
the council to deny the permit, citing the former governor.
"I think you are taking some ac-
tion that is very important and it is
an after-glow of some very promi-
nent events," he said.
interview that the other jurors had
pressured her to change her vote,
but apparently contradicted herself
Gov David Hall Ing deliberations in the trial of Hall In another Interview when she said
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influence her
Mrs. Meyer had been hositalized
early Friday after complaining of
chest pains, but was later released
by her physician who said she was
suffering from arthritis and tension.
Mrs. Meyer was called into the
to recover communication codes and date unstated by defendants, the po-
atomic warhead missiles from the lice department there experienced
H-class sub, which was lost in 1968. crowd control problems."
Because about two-thirds of the Shea alleged that the city has is-
submarine broke off and sank-to the sued permits at the same track for
ocean bottom, neither the codes nor auto races during the year and for
motorcycle races during the Okiaho- denying Social Security
benefits to widowers with children in
thein care.
Zahn confirmed his Intentions to-
day, after a news clipping from
Maine filtered through.
Mrs. Zahn disclosed she hopes to
have a home in the mountains of re-
mote South Berwick and Kennebunk,
in York County.
"My husband plans on running for his San Francisco architect, dropped
Congress and having a retreat in in on the Maine newspaper.
By Jody Fossett
Mrs. Dell Meyer's statement that
drugs Influenced her guilty vote in
the trial of former C„. Fz
is a "pretty weak" argument for re-
oidahoma law professor said today, two day* but changed her vote be-
. . . cause she was ’'exhausted, sick.
"My basic reaction is that it is her tired gtin influence Of
verdict, period," said Dr. Robert -j •<
E.L. Richardson, who also is direc-
tor of the Oklahoma Center for
Criminal Justice.
CIA raises
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part of Red
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Maine would put us closer to Wash- Zahn has purchased controlling in-
ington," she told a reporter for the terest in American Agamenticus Re-
York County Coait Sur-Pr«8. ,ortJ. Inc and
Asked about Wendy's disclosure, than 2,000 acres of South Berwick
Zahn said: "Oh, Lord, yes." and York wilderness in an area
The councilman said his intentions known as the Agamenticus Region of
have been known for some time; southern Maine,
that he plans to run against John
Jarman, district 5 Congressman,
probably in 1976.
Mrs. Zahn's disclosure came when
the Zahns, his Maine attorney,
Frank Hancock, and Dan Coleman,
______ _ and W. W. "Doc" Taylor, has said
versing the verdict, a’ University of she held out against conviction for
cause she was "exhausted, sick.
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