Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 114, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1976 Page: 1 of 40
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DEATH PENALTY UPHELD
State death law may be in jeopardy
(See STATE— Page 2)
Im-
Atty. Gen. Larry Derryberry said
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U nemployment
Berrong says TrOOpS battling
he won’t ask
takes a big bounce
Sudanese coup
re-election
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The agency quoted witnesses say-
ing the situation was still confused,
especially since neither side had
made any official announcement In
Khartoum.
The rebels* affiliation and motives
were not known. There was no re-
port on casualties.
Widespread re-enactment of the
death penalty after the Supreme
Court invalidated it in many states
pression the high court decision
might make it possible for the state
to reactivate its electric chair this
fall. However, others said they be-
lieve the laws in some states reject-
ed by the high court are similar to
the new Oklahoma capital punish-
ment law.
Sen. Ed Berrong, D-Weatherford,
announced today that he will not
seek re-election and will retire after
18 years in the Senate at the expira-
tion of his present term in Novem-
ber.
He said he will concentrate on his
insurance, investments and real es-
tate business.
"I've been in there a long time and
my family kind of figures maybe it's
time to quit, so I am not seeking re-
election," Berrong said.
after 18 years does not mean I will
not continue to work for good gov-
ernment."
The announcement came as a sur-
prise to most people. ,
ate and premeditated" or committed
during a felony or an attempted fel-
ony.
North Carolina had more prisoners
on death row than any other state.
The increase could create elec-
tion-year difficulties for President
Ford. He has said the steady drop in
the nation's jobless rate until now
However, government economists
have said that a rise in the jobless
rate would not be a cause for con-
•cem. "I wouldn't interpret a rise as
a sign of any sudden change in the
economy," said Maynard Cornier, a
top Commerce Department econo-
mist.
The Labor Department said the
number of unemployed in June in-
creased by 280,000 to a total of 7.1
million, while the number of em-
ployed declined by 200,000 o a total
of 87.5 million.
By Mary Jo Nelson
Oklahoma City is exploring ways
to reuse highly-treated sewage from
the future Chisholm Creek plant, in-
cluding the possibility of piping it
straight into Lake Hefner's supply of
drinking water. City Manager Jim
Cook disclosed today.
He said effluent discharged from
the ultra modern $9.9 million sewage
plant to be built at NW 220 and West-
ern actually will be cleaner than
some of the city'* present untreated
water.
arate opinions by Justices Potter
Stewart and Byron R. White as well
as a brief statement by Justice Har-
ry A. Biackmun, who said simply
that he concurred.
Louisiana law required the death
penalty for murder during an aggra-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unem-
ployment jumped to 7J' per cent of
the work force in June, up two-
tenths of a per cent and the biggest
monthly climb since the depths of
last year's recession, the govern-
ment said today.
t.
has been a "marked indication of so-
ciety's endorsement of the death
penalty for murder," the justices
said.
"We hold that the death penalty is
not a form of punishment that may
never be Imposed, regardless of the
circumstances of the offense, re-
Oklahoma State Penitentiary War-
den Richard A. Crisp said he had
dispatched the prison chaplain this
Cook said the plant will be the first
Some Oklahoma officials said they
think Oklahoma's law Is more like
those of the states which were re-
jected.
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gardless of the character of the of-
fender. and regardless of the proce-
dure followed in reaching the deci-
ion."
In North Carolina, where 116 per-
sons were on death row. the law re-
quired execution In the gas chamber
for murder which is "willful, deliber-
The coup attempt began shortly
after Numairi, a general who came
to power in a bloodless coup in 1969,
landed in Khartoum from Paris aft-
er a trip to the United States and
Europe.
Diplomatic sources here said
shooting was heard 15 minutes after
Numairi landed. They said the presi-
dent got into a car and drove away
from the airport.
Firing later spread to various
parts of the capital and to Omdur-
man, a twin city across the Nile Riv-
er where the Sudanese radio station
is located.
State police at the airport said the
airliner explosion immediately fol-
lowed a call by a man to an Eastern
reservations clerk. "Better clear the
terminal because there's going to be
an explosion there. You think I'm
(See BLASTS—Page 2)
So far, he said, Oklahoma City has
done little to recycle its wastes, but
has operated some recycling centers
for garbage and for waste paper.
He concedes that some public re-
sistance might come in reusing
treated sewage, but he said the Chis-
holm Creek discharge will be far su-
perior to that released by other sew-
age treatment plants upstream on
(See SEWAGE—Page 2)
weatheR
Local: Partly cloudy with 30 per
cent chance of rain through Satur-
day. Overnight lows near 70;
highs Saturday low 90s. (Details,
Page 28.)
CAIRO (AP) — Rebel soldiers in
Sudan launched a coup against Pres-
ident Jaafar el-Numairi today, but
loyal troops were reported to have
fought back. One report said they
smashed the attempted coup.
Radio Juba broadcast from south-
ern Sudan that loyal forces had sup-
pressed the coup. The broadcast
from Juba, 750 miles south of Khar-
toum, was monitored in Nairobi.
The radio said "forces of the revo-
lution crushed the abortive at-
re-election only once since he came tempt.
to the Senate, and there had been no
announced opposition to his re-elec-
tion this year.
There were increases in unemploy-
ment in nearly all categories in the
labor force, the department said.
The Labor Department said the
average duration of unemployment
increased by two weeks in June to fact I'm getting out of elective office
16.9 weeks. That was equal to the
high reached last December.
The increase in the over-all jobless
rate was the biggest monthly jump
(See JOBLESS—Page 2)
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He said one major consideration
for reusing the potable effluent
would be to develop the area west of
Broadway Extension and north of
Memorial Road for industry, and
supply the industries with the Chis-
holm discharge.
Not the least likely of possibilities
being considered is building a pipe-
line or canal from Chisholm plant to
Hefner and sending the discharge
back into the city water supply.
Cook said the recycling of water is
one possibility being included in the
comprehensive plan now being de-
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Earlier, a Metropolitan District
Commission officer said that the ex-
plosion was caused "by a pipe
bomb."
the high court opinion would have to
be studied in detail before its impact
on Oklahoma could be determined.
The court rejected mandatory
death penalty statutes of North Car-
olina and Louisiana, but upheld
deaths sentences assessed in Florida,
Texas and Georgia along with anoth-
er North Carolina case.
quarters building, the agency said,
and loyal units regained control over
an armored unit's base outside the
city.
three bombings.
FBI Agent Dennis Creedon said a
man identifying himself as Dennis
Callahan of the South Boston De-
fense League called WCVB-TV and
the Boston Herald-American and
claimed responsibility for the bomb-
ings at a National Guard Armory
and one at Logan International Air-
port.
South Boston has been a center of
opposition to cqurt-ordered busing,
but there is no indication there is
any such group as the South Boston
Defense League.
Meanwhile, investigators were
looking into the causes.
"It's a safe assumption they were
bombs,” said Richard Bates, special
agent in charge of the Boston Feder-
al Bureau of Investigation office.
Officials said the explosion that
destroyed a National Guard truck
and a fuel tank outside an armory in
the Dorchester section of Boston was
caused by "an outside force of some
kind."
Holiday rain
possibility
Oklahoma's weatherman is trying
hard not to rain on our parade but
he can't guarantee a thing.
With Fourth of July weekend ceic”
brations beginning statewide Satur-
day, the forecast is all full of humid-
ity, random clouds and — maybe —
thunderstorms. Chances run 30 to 40
per cent tonight and Saturday.
The flow of warm, moist air set-
ting up the holiday humidity kicked
off heavy rainstorms overnight, over
northern and western sections. Hail
and high winds were reported near
Hydro and southwest of Lawton, but
no damage was noted.
Billings topped the rain roster with
2.92 Inches. Also soaking up 2 inches
or more were Blackwell, Braman,
Lamont and Buffalo.
Heavy rains continued in the north
this morning. A bulging creek
splashed a foot of water across SH
11 northwest of Ponca City, closing it
for a time, after the area received
2.6 inches of rain.
The National Weather Service
warned that slow-moving rains
maintaining an inch-per-hour pace
could produce city drainage prob-
lems in Osage, Washington, Nowata,
Craig, Delaware and Ottawa Coun-
ties.
vated kidnapping, rape, robbery or
burglary; murder of a fireman or
peace officer in line of duty; murder
by an already-convicted killer or by
a life-term prisoner; multiple mur-
der or murder for hire.
Other states with mandatory death
penalty laws are Alabama, Wash-
ington. Indiana, Virginia, Maryland,
Missouri, South Carolina, Delaware,
Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi. Ne-
vada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
New York? Oklahoma, Rhode Island
and Wyoming.
The effect of the decision on those
states was not immediately clear be-
cause of variations in the ways their
laws were written. But it appeared
likely that few of them could survive
a challenge because they make the
death penalty mandatory.
Justice Stewart, who wrote the:
(See COURT—Page 2)
BOSTON (AP) — Explosions
thought to be caused by bombs dam-
aged a courthouse in Newburyport
early today and in Boston, 40 miles
away, destroyed an empty Eastern
Airlines plane and damaged vehicles
in an armory. Nobody was hurt.
The FBI said a caller claiming to
be from an organization called the
South Boston Defense League
claimed responsibility for two of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su-
preme Court upheld the death penal-
ty today but struck down laws in two
states that make death mandatory
for certain crimes.
The court approved death penalty
laws in Florida, Georgia and Texas
but invalidated laws in Louisiana
and North Carolina.
1 The laws the court upheld leave
the death penalty decision in the
hands of judges or jurors but pro-
vide guidelines for them.
According to an Associated Press
survey, 572 men and 10 women on
death rows in 30 states were await-
ing the court's decision on whether
to uphold death as a punishment.
The vote was 7-2, with Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. and Thur-
good Marshall dissenting.
The court outlined its views in sep-
A mayor of Weatherford for 10
years prior to being elected to the
Senate, Berrong commented, "The
crushed the abortive
Vice President Abel Alier,
cabinet ministers and other top offi-
cials attended a mass meeting Fri-
day night in Juba, the radio said.
The officials affirmed their sup-
port for Numairi and condemned the
"attempted conspiracy" against the
regime, the broadcast said.
The Iraqi news agency quoted wit-
nesses in Khartoum saying tanks
and armored personnel carriers
were seen moving toward the airport
and the army headquarters. The
agency had reported earlier that
rebels surrounded the airport and
He said, however, that he has no the headquarters.
(See BERRONG—Page 2) Tanks fired on rebels at the head-
By Waii^Miller
Oklahoma officials were not sure
today whether a U.S. Supreme Court
ruling on the death penalty clears
the way for execution of some of the
34 men and one woman now on
Death Row at the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary at McAlester.
Some officials had the
has shown that his economic policies
are working.
The rise also could bring new pres-
sure for additional government ac-
tion to create jobs.
City may reuse sewage for drinking
veloped, and he noted it will call for
a "moderate change in attitudes to-
ward resource recovery."
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in Oklahoma to treat waste through
the tertiary stage. Sewage so treated
is classed as suitable for drinking.
"We are exploring opportunities to
capture that water, which will be
treated at great expense, for reuse
by the city itself, instead of pouring
this highly valuable resource on
downstream," Cook said today.
Cook said the effluent would be far
superior to some of the water that
flows down the North Canadian Riv-
er, which feeds both Lakes Hefner
and Draper.
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