Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 9, 1976 Page: 4 of 24
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who was grilled by attorneys over
the company's practices of giving
free services and lower rates to big
customers.
Gary Gardenhire, attorney for the
National Electrical Contractor's As-
sociation. pointed out that $350,000
was spent by OGAE to connect
Crossroads Mall to service lines.
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are coming!
Hearings on a rate hike request by
Oklahoma Gas A Electric Co. re-
sumed today with more attacks from
opponents that OGAE shows favorit-
ism to preferred clients at the ex-
pense of residential customers.
Today's session at the Corporation
Commission began with cross-exam-
ination of OGAE official Leon Smith
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battle with fellow
judges who have ob-
jected to his sometimes
unorthodox demeanor.
It is expected that an
application to suspend
Graham from office
will be filed with the
state Court on the Judi-
ciary.
Last week it was re-
vealed that state Su-
preme Court Justice
Ben T. Williams has
recommended a peti-
tion to oust Graham be
prepared immediately.
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TOKYO (AP) — The
Japanese government
said today it will ap-
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for the Palestine Uber-
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A bill to terminate
mineral interests that
lay dormant for 20
years with title es-
cheating to the state
was i.. . .
the state Senate Judici-
ary Committee.
The committee took
action on the bill cli-
maxing lengthy study
that continued through
the legislative interim.
The bill, SB 285. pro-
vides that lack of activ-
ity involving severed
mineral interests over a
20-year period shall
make the interests sub-
ject to escheating to
the state and owners
will have two years in
which to protect their
interests.
asked to spend $12.8 million apiece
for the Oklahoma City and Tulsa
prisons."
Why fight a losing battle on the
prison bill?
"We just want to set the stage for
public discussion of this so when it
gets to the senate, maybe it will help
the cause over there." Floyd says,
noting that the prison bill is expect-
ed to run into more opposition in the
senate than in the house.
Lower farmer
costs ahead?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The major
items farmers must buy to produce
the nation's food and fiber are not
going to be as costly this spring as
they were a year ago, says the Agri-
culture Department.
"At planting time, the farmers are
facing relatively favorable product
prices as well as larger supplies for
many of their important inputs," the
department's Economic Research
Service said today in a new Agricul-
tural Outlook analysis.
What may be the most significant
debate of 1976 for the House of Rep-
resentatives is scheduled Wednesday
afternoon on the question of whether
to appropriate $14 million to start
constsuction of new medium-security
prisons in the Oklahoma City and
Tulsa regions.
Rep. Glenn Floyd. D-Norman. is
leading efforts to organize opposition
to thO bill, but says he doubts he can
muster enough votes to defeat it.
"It's pretty tough to fight the
Speaker.” Floyd explained.
And Speaker Bill Willis. I>-Tahle-
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ning was that it would take money
away from education.
"But I have argued all along that
turns at night call to
release accused per-
sons from jail after
normal courthouse
hours.
"It was very kind of
you to offer to let me
get on the night duty-
roster with the special
judges," Graham wrote
in a letter hand deliv-
ered to Williamson to-
day.
"I will be the first to
ask that I be put on if
all the other elected
judges in this court-
house also serve the
public by having night
duty as a judge at the
jailhouse," he added.
The independent-
minded judge has car-
ried on a continuing
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LONELY BUT
NOT ALONE
Do you feel that your
children are neglecting
you because you'rg "old"?
Do you feel that "older
people" do not have time
to listen because you're
young? Or maybe circum-
stances are such that you
can't be with those you
love the most. la there
anything that can be
done for loneliness?
(1) You can make an ef-
fort to be a real friend to
another lonely person.
"Bear one another’s bur-
dens and so fulfill the
law of Christ" (Oal. 6:2)
(2) Remember God knows
your name. He wants to
become acquainted with
you. Will you givs Him a
chance? (Rev. 3:20)
(3) Someone probably
loves you, "just because
..Memory of such a
love will not keep you
from being lonely but it
will keep you from being
alone in a way that nei-
ther death nor time nor
geography can change.
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Boren's prison recommendations.
But Miskelly says the Speaker has
indicated he would seek "at least
what we had last year for common
schools, about $42 million in new
money, compared to the $34 million
recommended by the governor."
Floyd met Monday with several
house members to plan opposition
strategy.
He says he and other opponents of
the measure will suggest several
amendments to reduce the prison
appropriation, or delay it
"1 want to create some public
awareness about what the governor
is wanting us to do/' Floyd says.
"The people need to know we are
getting ready to build three Rolls
Royce-type prisons when what we
oughta be doing Is building three
good Chevys," Floyd continues.
Floyd explains that in addition to
the $14 million proposed to start con-
struction on the two new prisons for
the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas,
another $6 million is being appropri-
ated for an already approved new
prison at Lexington.
He says the legislature next year
would have to appropriate an addi-
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Small VII* visiting Gov. David Boren at the Capitol this morning was
Mary Kate McKee. 10. the 1976 Oklahoma Easter Seal Child, who gave
him an outsized lapel pin. Boren Is honorary chairman of this year's cam-
paign. March l-April 18. Mary Kate, born with spina bifida, represents the
hundreds of youngsters receiving Easter Seal services each year. She in
the daughter of the E. H. McKees of Tulsa. _ ___
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Debate brewing
quah. says. "We feel pretty confi-
dent it will pass."
"I certainly am not twisting any
arms," in support of the bill, Willis
says. "I have just been checking
with members to see how they will
vote."
Floyd says he and "at least 10 or
12 other house members, possibly as
many as 25" will attempt to amend
the bill to provide money for only
one new prison instead of two.
But Willis counters:
"One of the fears of many oppo-
nents to the prison bill in the begtn-
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Chief U.S. Dlst. Judge Fred Daugherty has dis-
qualified himself and other Oklahoma City federal
judgta from hearing the case of a former Black
Panther accused of attempting to bomb the feder-
al courthouse on Sept. 28.
Judge Daugherty explained that Oklahoma City
judges could be considered potential victims of
the alleged attempt and he transferred the case to
retired U.S. Dist. Judge George Templar of To-
peka. The trial is set for Tuesday in Oklahoma
City.
Harawese Rhennae Moore, 26, a former Oklaho-
ma City resident, is accused of placing a bomb
consisting of a coffee can filled with gasoline and
gun|iowder against the west door of the federal
building.
She was identified as a suspect when finger-
prints found on the bomb were found to match
those of Miss Moore in FBI files.
Miss Moore, who is free on $750 bond, was at-
tending People's College of Law in Los Angeles
w hen arrested in January.
She reportedly was finance officer of the Black
Panthers in Los Angeles in 1969 and was involved
in a five-hour gun battle with Los Angeles police
on Dec. 8, 1969.
She was charged with conspiracy to possess ille-
gal weapons and convicted in January 1972. She
was sentencefl to three years on probation.
Judge Graham volunteers
for night duty at court
AssbcUte Dhit Judge
volunteered himself for
Gar C. Graham today
night duty at the Okla-
homa County Court-
house.
But he Included a
provision that every
other judge must
equally available.
The offer came in a
letter from Graham to
presiding Special Judge
Creston B. Williamson,
as part of Graham's
running feud with other
Oklahoma County
judges.
Graham earlier com-
plained that he was the
target of a recent poli-
cy forbidding domestic
relations court judges
to set bond or arraign
prisoners in anything
other than domestic re-
lations cases.
Williamson, informed
of Graham’s complaint,
good naturedly offered
to include Graham on
____ the list of special
approved today by judges who take weekly
During the confrontation, an off-
duty police officer, Andy Cain, shot
one of the three youths. Tony Byars,
16. who subsequently died.
Cain reported that he fell to the
ground and fired after Byars drew a
pistol and fired at him.
Although he pleaded guilty to the S
Agnew attempted robbery which oc-
curred earlier. Hopgood still l-
a w a I
growing out of the Pak-A-Sak inci-
dent.
Hopgood had been certified to
stand trial as an adult
request by OG&E
which ultimately was billed to resi-
dential users.
"Do you have any idea why they
(developers) needed these services
or why they couldn't pay for them
themselves?" Gardenhire asked.
"No sir." replied Smith, who is
manager of rates and assistant sec-
retary of OGAE.
Hearings resumed today after a
two-week recess. They are expected ___________
to conclude this week following testi- tional $7 million to complete the
mony from several more witnesses Oklahoma city and Tulsa prisons.
"I think the evidence is clear that
these facilities are pretty fancy
when you consider that the federal
guidelines do not allow federal par-
_____ OGAE's spending of more ticipation In any prison costing more
than $1 million a year on promotions than gg million, when we are being
and its claim that residential rates
are kept at a "bare minimum."
"You say that OGAE keeps its
rates to a bare minimum?" Garden-
hire continued. "That's just a blatant
statement. I want you to justify it or
is that jist faith in good old OGAE?"
"Yes sir," Smith said.
On the subject of discounts to in*
J earlier. Hopgood still is dustrial and commercial users,
i t 1 n g disposition of charges Smith said that if they were charged
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nomic growth would be slowed.
"A total flat rate structure would
not promote growth and would ac-
tually discourage it," Smith ex-
plained. "For utilities this would
be very damaging.”
Smith said that higher rates would
mean a hardship on those with fixed
incomes but they would still fare
better than customers in most other
states.
"We would be very sympathetic-
but we've made it known during this
hearing that our rates are among
the lowest in the nation. We would
say that the effect here would be
less than most anywhere else,"
Smith said.
OGAE is seeking a $30.5 million in-
crease In utility rates.
A 17-year-old youth today pleaded
guilty to the attempted robbery with
firearms of a grocery store at 2220 S
Agnew last October.
Anthony O. Hopgood pleaded
guilty before Dist. Judge David M.
Cook but sentencing was deferred
pending a pre-sentence investiga-
tion.
He was scheduled for sentencing
on April 16.
Hopgood was one of three youths
arrested Oct. 28 during an apparent
attempted robbery of a Pak-A-Sak
carry-out at 2031 NW 12.
air step.
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Speaker Bill Willis "confident it will pass'
tedium-security prisons funding
that because, if the prison bill were persuade him and many others to
defeated. I'd be ready to close ajHhe support a prison bill which they oth-
session on the present recommended erwise might oppose,
budget and go home." Willis warns.
"If we pass the prison bill, I'm ____________________
going to absolutely Insist that more expects in return for support of Gov.
money go into education" than the — ■ -----------
figures recommended by Gov. David
Boren, Willis said.
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Rep. John Miskelly, D-
Choctaw. says the promise by
Speaker Willis to insist on increasing
appropriations for education if the
present bill passes is sufficient to
Port killed
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(AP) — Alfonso Gatto,
a poet and Italy's lead- I
Ing expert on Russian
literature, was killed
Monday in an automo- '
bile accident. He was I
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