Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 9, 1976 Page: 1 of 24
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Rigsby Mid Kitchen had entered
the house about 11:45 p.m. through a
window, after cutting off the lights
at an outdoor switchbox.
Roy Cheatwood. 58, arrived home
from work about 12:20 a.m., to find
his son, Charles, standing outside in
bafflement. Charles had intended to
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By Walter R. Mears
MIAMI (AP) — Ronald Reagan
will need more than moral victories,
and soon, if he is going to wrest the
Republican presidential nomination
from President Ford.
Florida is, or at least was, a likely
place for the conservative challeng-
1,001 in the first 45 minutes of to-
day's trading. But at 1 p.m. the Dow
average was down to 999.06. a gain
of 10.33 points.
Kitchen's former wife, 29; her fa-
ther and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Cheatwood, 58; Cindy Cheatwood,
18; Tommy Cheatwood. 22; Cindy's
boyfriend, Bobby Bibbs, 20, and the
Kitchen children, Chris, 10, Rodney.
5, Spring, 3, and Joseph, 2.
Police said throughout the threat-
filled ordeal, while police tried to
reason with Kitchen by telephone,
the only motive he expressed was a
desire to see his children.________
Even as he walked from the house.
Kitchen carried little Spring and one
of the other small youngsters, while
Mrs. Kitchen walked behind him
with the gun he had yielded to her
Reagan has lowered the euphoric
landslide terget once set by his state
campaign manager and now says
that while he hopes to win, a close
second would be good enough.
Ford says he expects to win.
“I don't think that in a dose horse
race it could be a loser for a chal-
lenger,** Reagan said. It is the same
argument he used in New Hamp-
shire where he lost narrowly two
Tuesdays ago: that no one should ex-
pect a challenger to quickly defeat
an Incumbent president who enjoys
the political prestige and power of
the White House.
One flaw in that argument is the
(See PRIMARY—Page 2)
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Cecil Ray Phipps, 48. new car
sales manager fo- Freo Jones Ford,
was wounded in the shoulder by a
bullet that smashed through the
kitchen window of his home at 6700
N Woodward.
Light breezes wafted over Oklaho-
ma today, as clouds began breaking
with departure of the low pressure
area that had granted the thirsty
state two rainy days.
The mercury perked near 60 this
afternoon. A sunny surge Into the 70s
is expected Wednesday, and the out-
look Thursday through Saturday is
partly cloudy and mild, forecasters
An Oklahoma City auto sales exec-
utive was wounded in his home and
three motorists escaped serious inju-
ry about midnight Monday, in what
police termed related cases of ran-
dom sniping.
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Couch of Edmond flatly denied that
he had ever made personal over-
tures toward the woman, but he
could not explain how she obtained
the license despite failing the test.
Parris said today he did not know
that the woman pleaded guilty in De-
cember, 1972, to a charge of indecent
exposure and perjury and received a
four-year suspended sentence In
connection with her dancing at an
Oklahoma City club.
Known then as Laura Bel) Pool,
she gained some notoriety by claim -
Dow tops 1,000, falls back
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
figure out what to do with all of this
information we are getting, which
shows there is a great big mess over
there," Parris Mid.
Committee members Monday
heard reluctant testimony from
Laura Bell Daniel that the new pres-
ident of the barber board had tele-
phoned her several times.
She Mid that although she did not
"go out with him," she obtained a
barber license despite flunking a
barber license test.
Barber board president
Charles to come in through the back had Spring in his lap all the time. All
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By Wain Miller
Inspired partially by testimony of
a former go-go dancer who once re-
ceived a four year suspended sen-
r tence for indecent exposure and per-
jury, a legislative committee today
decided to look further into "a great
big mess" at the State Barber Board.
"We also may expand our investi-
■gation into the cosmetology board,"
said Rep. Bob Parris. D-Sallisaw,
chairman of the House Professions
and Occupations Committee.
The committee met for an hour be-
hind closed doors today “to try to
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"When I got home, he sent my
daughter out and she told me what
was happening. Then, 1 sent Charles
to get the police," Cheatwood Mid
He said he went inside in an effort
to talk to Kitchen, but found himself
herded to the bathroom and ordered
to stay there with most of the hos-
tages except lor the stricken Tom-
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Clouds relaxing
Kitchen finally had yielded to per-
suasions of a friend police managed
to locate, identified as a former co-
worker, Jay Ledford, 55. of 26 SE 43.
Except for the police spotlight, the
scene was plunged in darkness. Po-
lice information officer Russell Rigs-
by said Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Co. had turned off street lights at po-
lice request, so Kitchen would be un-
able to see tactical squad members
ringing the house. ______________
The heavily-armed, seven-man
team had stood by during a long se-
ries of frustrating phone calls. Po-
lice said teargas was ruled out be-
cause Tommy Cheatwood is a bed-
ing she was wearing a fur-lined G-
String.
At her trial she insisted that she
did not expose herself and that what
the complaining police officer ac-
tually saw was a home-made, mink
lined G-string.
Her experience as a dancer was
not mentioned during the committee
meeting Monday, Parris said.
"But the fact remains that al-
though the records show she did not
(.See PROBE—Page 2)
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A "vengeful" divorced father held
his former wife, their four children
and five other persons hostage for
more than four hours early today, in
a tense drama more suspenseful
than any television fiction.
The siege at the Roy Cheatwood
home, 2614 SE 38. ended about 4
a.m., when Ronnie Lynn Kitchen, 35.
surrendered in the glare of police
spotlights. He had held the house-
hold at bay with a .22 caliber pistol
since 11:45 p.m.
The hostages, shaken but unhurt,
were identified as:
human head, on a table in an inten-
sive care unit — 1CU.
Then, using a brainwave recording
machine, he attached 23 electrodes
in the Jello, in conventional brain
positions. In wiggly lines, the ma-
chine recorded varying evidence of
electrical "life" in the Jello, says
Medical Tribune, a publication (or
Most of the cases have surfaced
the past two weeks and some doctors
reported seeing as many as 60 such
patients a week.
All reporting doctors, or nurses in
their offices, said the load of flu
cases is about twice what they nor-
mally would expect.
And the Oklahoma City-County
Health Department disclosed more
than 520 Influenza cases were report-
market swept ahead today, carrying stocks had been up 11 points to about
the Dow Jones industrial average * " ‘ ~ *" **
past the 1,000 level for the first time
in more than three years before pull-
ing back.
er to start showing the political mus-
cle it will take to deny the incum-
bent Ford a chance to run for the
White House in his own right
And that is a key to judging the
GOP returns in today's presidential
primary. If Reagan loses, his claims
of satisfaction will have a hollow
ring.
doctors.
Upton Mid "it's extremely difficult
to get a flat EEG electroence-
phalogram even in the presence of
brain death," because of things like
tongue movements, sweat, microre-
flexes, I.V. drips, respirators, people
walking around in the ICU, paging
systems, various monitors.
Phipps remained under treatment
today in Deaconess Hospital.
. Minutes earlier and five blocks
away, a bullet had shattered a win-
dow in a car occupied by three peo-
ple. Detective Sgt. Larry Upchurch
said it is believed the same assail-
ants were involved in both incidents.
"I'd My it's random. We don't
have anything else to go on," Up-
church said. "Neither of the victims
knew who shot at them or why any-
one would be shooting at them."
Detectives Tom Kline and Larry
Deeds said the auto attack apparent-
ly happened first, although it was
not reported until shortly after the
shots eruped at the Phipps home at
12:20 a.m.
The detectives Mid the three mo-
torists told them gunfire from a
(See SHOOTING—Page 2)
By Mary Jo Nelson
By a single vote. Oklahoma City
Council members today defeated a
determined effort by Councilman
Jerry Gilbert to force negotiations
with the three municipal employees'
unions open to public scrutiny.
Mayor Patience Latting, who sev-
eral weeks ago made a dramatic
speech calling for open negotiations,
helped defeat the proposal today
joining the majority in a 5-4 vote.
After debating the matter lor
more than two hours in two separate
sessions, the council voted to delay a
final decision on whether the nego-
tiations shall be open to the public
and press. Instead, they approved a
motion to proceed with initial negoti-
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FRANKFURT, West Germany
(AP) — A gunman seeking freedom
for an accused bank robber seized
two hostages in a Frankfurt court-
house today and demanded $3.2 mil-
lion and pasMge on a jetliner to
Cuba, police reported.
The gunman also demanded a heli-
copter or automobile with bullet-
proof windows to ferry him and the
robber suspect to Frankfurt airport,
nine miles from the downtown court-
house, which was sealed off by heav-
ily armed police.
The hostages were believed to be a
court employe and a member of the
jury trying Gerhard Linden for an
$800,000 bank vehicle holdup in
Frankfurt two years ago.
Linden remained in custody alter
the early afternoon asMult because
a guard managed to force him into a
side room off the courtroom, police
Mid at a news conference.
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Local: Fair to partly cloudy
through Wednesday. Overnight
lows mfd-30*; highs Wednesday
near 70. Northerly winds light and
variable tonight. (Details. Page
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Cheatwood said Kitchen mean-
whth* was holding hts wile. Mrs.
Cheatwood and Spring. "He was
holding a gun to my wife's head and
Hostages unharmed after long ordeal
ridden multiple sclerosis patient
and Mrs. Cheatwood suffer*, high
blood pressure.
By Ervin Watson
The Oklahoma City area apparent-
ly is in the midst of a flu epidemic, a
survey of family physicians and hos-
pital emergency rooms showed to-
day.
All doctors surveyed reported an
upsurge in the number of upper re-
spiratory illnesses and at least two
termed the outbreak "epidemic" In
proportions.
ed in the county last week.
Dr. Robert C. Bowers, county
medical director, Mid 271 cases had
been logged the week before. The
weekly average at this season is
about 75, he Mid.
Specific bugs have not been isolat-
ed, but serological tests at the State
Health Department have implicated
(See FLU—Page 2)
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ating sessions exactly as they have
in past years, in secret.
Gilbert, Ward 6, refused to be si-
lenced on his proposal to conduct all
labor negotiations in open meetings,
with each meeting to be publicly an-
nounced at least 24 hours in ad-
vance.
Opposed by two of the unions' top
spokesmen and other council mem-
bers, Gilbert insisted:
"1 know holding the negotiation* in
secret don't work. I would like to see
if conducting them in the open
would."
This was a reference to a three-
day police strike last October.
The council debated furiously at
(See CITY—Page 2)
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Police officer Terry Turner checks bullet hole In window and shade at
home of wounded auto firm exeeflthe CeciFM^ Phipps.
Kitchen told
The father
. . . biob gives off electrical brain waves
NEW YORK (AP) — A blob of Jel-
lo. giving off electrical signals of
"life," underscores the problem of
proving that a human brain is dead,
says a Canadian neurologist.
Dr. Adrian R. M. Upton of Mc-
JHaster University in Hamilton
li)a<,'cd a mold of lime Jello, supplied
byTis wife, on a plastic likeness of a
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