Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 86, No. 191, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 1, 1975 Page: 3 of 52
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The board will sub-
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tions to the council for
approval before send-
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cials, the spokesman
said.
The members are to
be appointed at a coun-
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Recent measures have included
making identification "badges —
complete with photograph — for
non-uniformed employees and at
night roping off a stairway that
leads to second- and third-story of-
fices. Within the next month, a
heavy plastic window will be in-
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second-floor which separates records
clerks from the public.
"We haven't restricted people
about coming and going,” said Sgt.
Russell Rigsby, public information
officer, "but it's something that will
have to be done.’’
Rigsby said the building has been
the target of "two bomb threats in
the last week.” f
"They're blowing up stations
around the U.S.,” he added.
Security measures like those cited
have been in the mill for years,
Rigsby said, but have been viewed
with more urgency since the shoot-
ing attack on an officer two weeks
ago.
Police said a man, later identified
as 20-year-old Roy L. Campbell,
Chickasha, was evicted fropn the .sta-
tion for loitering. A short distance
away, he grabbed a revolver from
an officer's holster, fired four shots
at another policeman, then began
marching back to the station when a
third officer fired three bullets into
the gunman.
Campbell, who is recovering from
his wounds, has been charged with
four felony chargas, including two
counts of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill.
His intended victim, officer Ben
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NORMAN — The
City Council Tuesday
night rejected an ordi-
nance prohibiting sell-
ing on city streets and
sidewalks f e a r i n g it
would prohibit chil-
dren's lemonade stands
and sale of football sou-
venirs.
The ordinance was
drawn up as a result of
vendors setting up their
wares in front of local
businesses, but several
councilmen and citi-
• zens feared it might be >
'too far-reaching, a
council spokesman
said.
Under the ordinance,
the council would have
designated days on
. w hich downtown and
: Campus Corner busi-
ncsses could hold side-
walk sales.
• The council approved
formation of a nine-
member airport advf-
• sory board to make
recommendations con-
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ning commission rec-
ommendations in re-
jecting a request by Al-
bert Thorstenberg to
rezone property at 772
D e B a r r from high
density residential to
commercial designa-
tion.
By Mick Taylor
Prompted by the recent shooting
attack on policeman near head-
quarters and terrorist attacks on po-
lice elsewhere, Oklahoma City police
are stepping up measures to make
their station more secure from out-
siders.
Until recently, police admit, the*
building has been almost without se-
curity to protect police, civilian em-
ployees and even classified Informa-
tion files, from unwelcome intru-
ders particularly at night when of-
fice workers go home.
"We really didn't have any securi-
ty," said bureau of records com -
mander Capt. Bill Mize.
"If you walk into the telephone
company, you don't walk anywhere
you want to walk. If you go into ths
FBI office, you don't wander
around," he pointed out. "This is
It defines "commercial gambling"
to include bookmaking, lotteries, op-
erating gambling devices, or having
any interest in a gambling business.
Other sections outlaw permitting a
premises to be used for commercial
gambling; selling, manufacturing,
transferring or possessing any gam-
bling device; installing communica-
tions facilities in a place, which the
installer knows to be a gambling
place, or failing to remove them
when ordered to do so by a court;
dissemination of gambling informa-
tion, or conspiring to violate any sec-
tion of the act.
The law gained unanimous approv-
al of both houses of the Legislature
in June to climai a two-year battle.
Moves to enact the law were trig-
gered by' a 1971 federal court ruling
that previously existing Oklahoma
statutes did not outlaw betting on hu-
man sporting events, such as foot-
ball.
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Law enforcement authorities said
many bookmakers took advantage of
the loophole to operate in the state.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, which officially supported the
new state law, said it is needed to
help curb multi-million-dollar inter-
state gambling operations in Oklaho-
ma.
Authorities say enactment of the
new law has prompted many book-
makers to go out of business, or
move their headquarters outside
Oklahoma in anticipation of the stat-
ute coming to life today.
Maj. Bill Anderson, chief of detec-
tives, says an ordinance was used to
curb bookmaking in the city, despite
the problem with the state law.
"But a lot of people were operat-
ing just outside the city, and now
this new law will make it more diffi-
cult for them.
"And it helps bring the FBI into
the act, which is another deterrent."
Maximum penalty for bookmaking
under the city ordinance is $300 fine
and 90 days in jail, "so the stronger
penalties urujer the state law will be
very effepttve, I think," Maj. Ander-
son add£7
Will the new law bring a signifi-
cant reduction in gambling in the
city and in the state?
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Haatth Department, »71 NE 23.
Farm prices up
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Led by hefty gains
for cattle and hogs,
farm prices jumped 3
per cent last month,
reaching their highest
average in a year and
a half, says the Agri-
culture Department.
By Wain Miller
A new law aimed, at putting foot-
ball bookmakers out of business goes
into effect today, right in t>e middle
of their peak business season.
Officials of federal, state and mu-
nicipal law enforcement agencies
hail it as an act which will make it
easier to prosecute those involved in
"commercial gambling" activities in
the state, and as a deterrent to "or-
ganized crime."
And Oklahoma City Police Depart-
ment officials emphasize that the
new law does not liberalize law con-
cerning so-called "personal gam-
bling," such as bets or "Saturday
. night poker games" between friends.
4'A lot of people may be under the
wrong impression about this," says
police department legal adviser
Fred Anderson.
As the legislature considered the
bill last spring, there was much fan-
; fare over Jhe fact the new law
makes no mention of "private" gam-
. -bling, and some legislators made it a
point to emphasize that they were
not voting against "friendly bets be-
tween friends" as they enacted the
law.
However, in last-minute action,
the Oklahoma House deleted from
the new law a clause which would
have repealed the state's previous-
ly-existing gambling statutes.
< And these "old" laws remain on
the books, meaning any type of bet-
ting is illegal, except for an exemp-
tion provided for bingo games and
similar fund-raising activities by
nonprofit organizations such as
churches.
The old laws still outlaw lotteries
and raffles of any type, Anderson
adds.
"Unless the courts tell us other-
wise, we have no choice except to
enforce both old and new gambling
laws," he says.
He points out there are some vari-
ances between the old laws and the
new statute, "but it would be up to
the courts, not us, to determine
which should prevail."
The new law taking effect today is
aimed strictly at "commercial gam-
. bling" and provides much stiffer
penalties for those convicted of such
activities.
Imprisonment up to 10 years or
fines up to $25,000, or bojfc^ore pro-
vided for convictions under some
sections of the new statute.
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Following attack, police tighten headquarters securit
Bridges, was uninjured but the inci-
dent pointed out the vulnerability of
police inside the building which
Campbell had visited earlier.
"He had been in the station all aft-
ernoon," Rigsby said of Campbell,
adding that the attack could have
been more serious.
During the past two weeks, em-
ployees at the information desk near
the front entrance have been in-
structed to keep a closer eye on who
comes and goes from the station,
Rigsby said. Visitors after 5 p.m.
are now required to check in at the
desk before going on to detective
and patrol offices on the upper
floors, he said.
Assistant Chief Gerald Emmett
said use of the ID badges by many
of the station's 90 employees began
about three weeks ago and they will
eventually be worn by all the sta-
tion's non-uniformed employees.
Before the badges, police "just
couldn't tell" which persons were in
"restricted areas" with authoriza-
tion and which were snooping, one
high-ranking policeman said.
Emmett said other security pre-
cautions will be decided on in about
a week.
Already-existing measures include
closed circuit television cameras in
the jail elevator and the outside
breezeway near the elevator en-
trance which wer<Trtstalled about a
year ago. "If we see somebody com-
ing up carrying a rifle or something,
we can shut the elevator down and
ask him over the intercom what his
business is," explained Capt. Bill
Ballard, jail commander.
Also, back and side entrances to
the station are kept locked after reg-
ular business hours, police said.
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Children are more
likely to get encephali-
tis from childhood dis-
eases than from mos-
quito bites, a health of-
ficial said today in call-
ing for pre-schoolers to
receive immunization
shots this month.
Dr. Robert C. Bow-
ers, medical director of
the Oklahoma C i t y-
County Health Depart-
ment, said the State
Health Department has
reported five cases of
encephalitis following
mumps and one follow-
ing measles in Oklaho-
ma this year, but none
transmitted by mosqui-
to.
Dr. Bowers said par-
ents should have pre-
school children immu-
nized during October,
which has been desig-
n a t e d Immunization
Action Month.
Immunization shots
at no cost are available
through the health de-
partment for measles,
German measles, polio,
diphtheria, whooping
cough and tetanus at
the following locations
and times: •
Britton Church of Christ, 9501 N
Military. *-11 i.m„ Oct. 3; Wil-
mont Plac» Baptist Church. 245 SE
45, B-11 a m., Oct. ti Our Savior
Lutheran Church, 0501 NW 23. 0-11
a.m., Orf. 7; Choctaw Seventh Day
ABvtntist Church, 8:30-10a.rn., Oct.
2; Edmond Pint Bantlst Church.
1-3 p.m., Oct. 13; Huey Lona Cen-
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