Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 232, Ed. 2 Wednesday, November 17, 1976 Page: 1 of 29
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Car tag requirement spun both good, bad drivers
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Russia fueling fire
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VOL. LXXXVII, NO. 232
the exhibit has attracted throngs of
intensely interested Soviets.
Music was country singing star Roy Clark’s re-
sponse Tuesday night, as he wan naaned an Oklahoma
International Ambassador of Goodwill at the gala
Drunk charges dropped
TULSA — Charges of public drunk and resisting arrest have
been dropped against a Tulsa electronics firm executive who last
month filed a $150,000 damage suit against the city alleging false
arrest.
Drug suspect slain
A man was shot and killed Tuesday night in a gun battle with
narcotics agents after a drug buy at a farmhouse east of Norman
went awry, authorities said.
Police said John R. Curry, 26, was shot when one of three sus-
pects stepped from a truck and fired a single shot from a large
caliber weapon at a drug agent, who returned the fire.
GOP leader named
The charges against Arlen Lowrance, head of Lowrance Elec-
tronics, were dismissed .Monday after officials declared the case
"had no prosecutorial merit.” The plaintiffs suit against the city
contends Lowrance does not drink.
will require motorists to carry liabil-
ity insurance or post $15,000 bonds
before they can purchase auto tags
for the coming year.
The law also requires a minimum
$10,000 coverage for all persons in-
volved in an auto accident and $5,000
to cover property damage.
Hall of Fame banquet climaxing Statehood Day. The
69th Sooner birthday party sew eight men and women
inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In Oklahoma City after almost 24
hours of slight temperature varia-
tions from a high of 36 to a low of 31.
the mercury headed into the low 50s.
Elsewhere, highs ranged from the
mid 40s in the southeast to the mid
60s in the northwest.
The four gunmen ran into the hotel
lobby at 9:50 a.m. firing automatic
weapons "to seize the hotel and hold
guests hostage," Radio Amman said
earlier.
No bomb was found in the huge
pavilion housing the exhibit, which
includes American photographs, cop-
ies of historical documents and film
showings. Since it opened last week.
Much of the influx comes from
Oklahoma motorists with clean driv-
ing records who have never before
bothered to acquire auto insurance,
the spokesmen said.
Despite this fact, most of the in-
surance company officials were not
happy about the extra business.
"Business is certainly up," Dan
Sublett, State Fann's Oklahoma un-
derwriting supervisor, said.
"It's come at a bad time. Our ca-
Intelligence sources say a Russian
ship unloaded 18 heavily-gunned ar-
mored vehicles and ammunition in
Tanzania in recent days. Tanzania
has served as a relay point for Sovi-
et arms bound for the black Rhodesi-
an guerrillas, the sources say.
This report followed another intel-
ligence dispatch last week saying
that a Tanzanian ship had delivered
compound were blocked by military
vehicles, and pedestrians were
barred from the area, they said.
The rattle of rifle bullets and muf-
fled explosions were heard through-
out the four hours, until the Jordani-
an troops staged the final assault,
they added.
Officials refused to comment on
Insurance companies have written
all the auto insurance they believe
they can economically write in to-
day's market, Sublett said.
"In the last couple of years, we've
had just horrible experience. Be-
cause nt inflation and an unbelievea-
ble increase in the crash parts in-
dex, insurance companies are losing
Soviet police then told those wait-
ing that for "technical difliculties"
the exhibit was closed and instructed
them to go home.
Mozambique, Tanzania and other
black African countries have openly
declared their intention to support
guerrilla operations aimed at top-
pling the white government of Rho-
desia. \
U.S. intelligence sources said they
have been informed that about 5,000
Rhodesian guerrilla* would be
moved gradually from Mozambique
to camps in Tanzania for training.
the reports that the gunmen were
Iranians. Empress Farah of Iran is
in Amman, attending celebration*
marking the 41st birthday of King
Hussein.
American exhibition guides went
along the half-mile line of Russians
telling them that the exhibit was
closed not lor "technical reasons"
but because of a bomb scare.
Sen. John McCune of Oklahoma City was elected minority lead-
er of the State Senate Tuesday during a caucus of the nine Senate
Republican*.
McCune succeeds Sen. Stephen Wolfe, R-Tul»a. Sen. Norman
Lamb of Enid was elected assistant minority leader.
King Hussein personally ordered a
final attack on the gunmen, who
were holed up on the fourth floor of
the hotel with an unknown number
of hostages, the spokesman said.
"The king ordered that the opera-
tion be conducted with the minimum
possible of losses in lives, especially
among the hotel guests," the spokes-
man said.
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Action Line
Amusements
Bridge
Business News
Classified Section
Comics
Our Times
Sports
TV Log
Vital Statistics
Women’s News
280,180
Morning-Evening
Daily Paid Circulation
Average for last Week
Professor is acquitted
GUTHRIE — A Langston University professor was acquitted
her* Monday on first-degree manslaughter charges stemming
from the hooting death of a Langston student outside his home
last April.
Willi* Brown, 52, had been charged in the slaying of Don Juan
Hom, a Langston student from Chicago who the professor told au-
thorities at the time he had mistaken for a trespasser.
Clark strums his thanks
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According to the JACL, the Los
Angeles-born woman refused de-
mands that she renounce her
American citizenship, despite ha-
rassment from Japanese officials
and her family's repudiation.
money on these lines," Sublett said.
"They are draining their surpluses
so they are not having their agents
actively seeking business. It affects
the ability to underwrite new busi-
ness," Sublett said.
Pork was $1.35 a pound in 1975,
and climbed another penny to a rec-
ord of $1.36 this year.
Crom made his analysis in a
speech prepared for the depart-
ment's annual outlook conference.
Retail food prices over-all are ex-
pected to rise 3 to 4 per cent in 1977,
about the same as the 3 per cent in-
crease now estimated for this year,
the department announced earlier
this week. A spokesman said the
prospective jump in 1977 beef prices
was included in that estimate.
By Andrew Levington
Oklahoma's largest auto liability
Insurers are noticing an average 25
per cent Increase in policy requests
a* the deadline for the state's new fi-
nancial responsibility law nears.
State Farm Insurance Co*., the
nation's No. 1 auto insurer, and All-
state Insurance Co., the No. 2 insur-
er, reported the liability underwrit-
ing business is up in Oklahoma.
- Spokesmen for both companies
said part of the increase is the result
of a state law effective Dec. 11 that
The law, passed by the last session
of the Oklahoma Legislature, re-
quires motorists to have liability In-
surance that would pay at least
$5,000 to a person involved in an ac-
cident.
The fog that greeted sleepy-eyed
Oklahomans this morning gave way
to partly cloudy skies over most of
the state except the far southeast.
Sunlight ventured back after a few
days absence and temperature*
moved up this afternoon because of
a large high pressure area centered
over the state.
MOSCOW (AP) — A bomb threat
reported by Soviet officials today
forced the evacuation of about 1,100
Russians from the U.S. Bicentennial
exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki
Park and effectively closed it for the
day. U.S. officials were angered by
the incident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is
increasing military aid to Rhodesian
guerrillas even while white and
black African leader* In Geneva are
trying to negotiate a peaceful solu-
tion, according to U.S. intelligence
reports.
In a pres* release detailing the
case, the JACL said Mrs. Toguri,
who uses that name, went to Ja-
pan in 1941 to help care for a sick
aunt and was not allowed to
leave after war broke out.
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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — King
H u s s e i n '* shock troops today
crushed a four-hour siege by gun-
men in Amman's Intercontinental
Hotel that took seven lives, a Jorda-
nian spokesman said.
Three terrorist*, two hotel em-
ployee* and two soldier* were killed
in the siege, the spokesman said. A
fourth gunman was seriously wound-
ed.
OKLAHOMA CITY TTIWFS
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Iranian students hostile to the
shah have been demonstrating in
several countries, including the Unit-
(See JORDANIANS—Page 2)
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It was nearly four hours before a
Soviet bomb squad arrived at the
evacuated pavilion, as several thou-
sand Russians hoping to see the ex-
hibition waited in line outside in
near-freezing weather.
None of the hotel guests
killed, the spokesman said.
The identity of the gunmen was
not known. Some reports said they
were Iranians.
weatheR
State: Fair to partly cloudy:
patchy fog southeast through
Thursday. Lows tonight upper 20*
northwest, 30s elsewhere; highs
Thursday mid-50s southeast, 70
northwest. (Details. Page 42.)
That is 10 cents above the estimat-
ed 1976 average of $1.39. Last year's
record average was $1.46.
The reason that beef prices will
swing back up is that cattlemen,
who are enduring severe financial
losses because of a glut of beef this
year, have reduced their herds
sharply, Crom said. |
One consolation is that pork prices
will be down in 1977, he said, al-
though beef accounts for about two-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The
American woman who was
branded "Tokyo Rose" and con-
victed of treason for broadcast-
ing Japanese propaganda during
World War II is asking for a
presidential pardon.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, bearing a
list of official supporters, sched-
uled a news conference for today
in front of the old federal court-
house here where she was con-
victed 27 years ago.
"She was convicted on a
myth," said Don Hayashi of the
Japanese-American Citizens
league, which is supporting her
bid. "We think a pardon is long
overdue."
thirds of the meat consumed by
American families. Meat is the big-
gest item in food budgets.
"Look for beef prices in 1977 to av-
erage about 10 cents per pound high-
er than this year's average, while
pork prices may average five cents
lower," Crom said. "Retail pork
prices likely will be lowest this win-
ter, while beef will peak seasonally
in the summer months."
Because of this capacity problem,
some Oklahoman* may "have a dif-
ficult time finding voluntary insur-
ance," he said.
A spokesman for the Insurance
Company of North America agreed
(See INSURANCE—Page 2
Russian 122mm multiple rocket
launchers and armored vehicles to
Mozambique, a staging area for
guerrilla attacks into white-ruled
Rhodesia.
The line dispersed, effectively
(See THREAT—Page 2)
up as new
pacity problem has been pretty bad
in the last six to seven months. It's
not confined strictly to Oklahoma,
but across the nation. This law has
just aggravated it," Sublett said.
She took part in the broadcasts
only because three American
POWs at Radio Tokyo, who were
"covertly burlesquing the intent
of Japanese broadcasts," as-
(See PARDON—Page 2)
Beef prices traditionally peak in
the summer. In July 1975, they hit a
record monthly high of $1.61 a pound
before turning down. By last Sep-
tember, store prices were about
$1.34 a pound, measured on an all-
cut basis.
Retail beef prices have fallen 4.8
per cent this year, Crom said.
Cattle producers, who have been
(See BEEF—Page 2)
$1.49 a pound average seen
Record beef price forecast
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consum-
er* who have seen beef prices fall
steadily from last year's highs can
expect to pay record prices to put
' beef on the table in 1977, an Agricul-
ture Department economist predict-
ed today.
Retail beef prices soon will begin
climbing and probably will cost a
record average of $1.49 a pound next
year, Richard J. Crom of the depart-
ment's Economic Research Service
said.
Sources said that two cars were
blown up during the first minutes of
the attack.
Special troops of the Jordanian
armed forces stormed the hotel lob-
by and pushed into the second and
third floors, forcing the terrorists
into the fourth floor, where they
blew up two rooms, the source* said.
All streets leading to the hotel
Smaller Insurance companies writ-
ing policies in the state were mixed
in their reporting about liability un-
derwriting business, but the state
agency that assigns high-risk drivers
to insurance companies when the
driver* can't obtain policies volun-
tarily reported a 30 to 40 per cent in-
crease in applications.
The majority of the insurance
companies who do report an in-
crease—tn auto liability ~ policy re-
quests say high-risk motorists ac-
count for les* than half of the appli-
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