Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 67, Ed. 2 Tuesday, May 9, 1978 Page: 4 of 15
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Machine tests vision
Five-year-eld Tanna Bryant Is one of the first persons to be tested on a new
vision testing device in Pushmataha Connty. The machine, much more accu-
rate than existing eye charts used In most schools, was made possible by a
grant to the county from the American Optometric Association and the Na-
tional 4-H Council. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bryant, Antlers.
Pat Simpson, left, public health nurse, and Virginia Weather, home health
aide, Instruct Tanna how to answer test questions.
OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
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STOIC NOWS
Escaped suspect
search expands
to and from the jail showers by
jailer Ray Ropp, Codding said.
Officials believe Boone walked
out of his cell, slipped through the
door of the maximum security area,
which was unlocked while lunch was
being served, and exited through
the sheriff’s office to the back door
of the courthouse
State law enforcement officials
were notified of the escape Monday
and Boone s description was circu-
lated nationally today by the sher-
iff's office. Codding said
Boone, described as 5-7, 120
pounds with light brown to blond
hair and brown eyes, was unarmed
when he left the county jail. Codding
said.
He said the suspect may be driv-
ing a 1975 brown over bronze Mer-
cury Cougar with Oklahoma license
WH 2592. The car was reported
stolen near the courthouse at about
4 p.m Monday.
Boone, who had been serving a 10-
year sentence for burglary after a
■ former felony conviction, was await-
ing trial on a first-degree murder
charge in connection with the Dec
19. 1976, shooting death of Edward
L Newman of Bartlesville.
By Warren Vletb
BARTLESVILLE - Washington
County law enforcement officials
expanded their search early today
for a 20-year-old murder suspect
who slipped out of his unlocked jail
cell Monday and fled through the
courthouse back door.
A cadre of city and county offi-
cers combed the Bartlesville area
throughout the night for Derryl
Dean Boone, a Granite Reformatory
inmate who was awaiting trial in
Bartlesville on charges of first-de-
gree murder and armed robbery.
Sheriff Glen Codding said officials
believe Boone may have fled the
Bartlesville area in a late-model
sports coupe that was reported
stolen two blocks from the court-
house shortly after the escape
'We don't have any idea if he's
still here," Codding said. "He could
be out of the country by now."
Codding said Boone escaped from
the jail's maximum security section
sometime between 12:15 and 2 30
p.m. Monday while lunch was being
served to other prisoners
The door to Boone s jail cell ap-
parently had been left unlocked ear-
lier when the prisoner was escorted
New courthouse won’t be same without ’pals’
Parents of Newkirk
vandals to be sued
NEWKIRK (AP) — Constant van-
dalizing of the school building here
has forced officials have institute a
policy of suing the parents of van-
dals to recover the damage costs.
"We had to do something. With the
court system, it's hard to do any-
thing with juveniles, and the school
— the district and the taxpayers in
the long run — has to pay the
damages," said Ike Glass, president
of the Board of Education.
"We don't know what kind of reac-
tion we'll have," he added. “The par-
ents may not think they're responsi-
ble either, but somebody's got to be
responsible."
Jack McCarty, attorney for the
board, said the new policy is based
on a state law which says the board
can sue parents of offending minors
for up to $1,500 for damages.
"I think the purpose of it is to get
the attention of the parents," he
said. "Most of the damage has oc-
curred late at night and around 2 dr
so in the morning, and parents need
to be concerned as to where their
kids are that late at night."
The policy was approved last
week and there hasn't been any le-
gal action yet, but McCarty said one
case may develop into a lawsuit.
Bob Mooneyham, director of the
Oklahoma State School Board Asso-
ciation, said Newkirk's decision is
"at least unique in terms of policy. I
don't know of any other policy like
that in the state.”
EL RENO (AP) In an effort to
study the value of different types of
forage, some steers here are each
being fitted with $1,300 worth of
shoes and assorted electronic gear.
The experiment is being conduct-
ed by the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture's Southwestern Livestock
and Forage Reseach station here.
Dr. Floyd Horn, the project's cre-
ator, says the fancy footwear will
"allow us to more accurately
predict the nutritional value of
forages and help with management
decisions in livestock, relative to
the quality of types of grasses to
grow."
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Experimenters fit
cattle with boots
Encased within the heavy leather
boots are tiny electronic weighing
circuitry which measures half-
pound changes in the steer's weight.
The information is fed to a back-
pack worn by the animal. The back-
pack transmits the information to
the research station where it is com-
piled by a computer.
Eventually, Dr. Horn hopes to be
able to supply livestock producers
with information on the best possi-
ble forage to plant.
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Only two animals are wearing the
exotic footwear now, but Dr. Hom
hopes to outfit 32 when the project
is in full swing.
Illinois River crests;
nobody in danger
TAHLEQUAH — The Illinois River crested be-
tween 13 and 14 feet today without creating any
major flooding problems or property damage, au-
thorities said.
The crest was one to two feet above the flood
stage level of 11 feet.
Sheriff s officers were concerned Monday there
might be some campers stranded in high waters
but officials said today no one was in any danger.
Weather officials blamed the high waters on
heavy rains in Arkansas this weekend which also
caused other northeastern Oklahoma streams to
fill their banks.
Float trip operators along the Illinois — Okla-
homa's most popular float stream — suspended
operations Sunday and Monday, saying the high
waler level was loo dangerous for persons to float.
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TULSA (AP) — It still isn't certain the Golden
Driller statue will be refurbished and kept at the
Tulsa County Fairgrounds.
The mammoth statue of an oilfield worker, com-
memorative of the thousands of men who have
helped drill the nation's oilfields, badly needs
repairing.
The Fair Board approved fixing the statute and
work was to have started two months ago. So far
nothing has been done.
It will take an estimated $170,000 to fix the stat-
ute. The Society of Petroleum Old Timers has tak-
en on the job of raising the money, but so far has
gathered only $17,000.
The Fair Board has told the Ken Boone Co.,
which is to do the work, not to start until it has all
the money. Unless work can be begun by Sept. 15,
it would probably be too late to meet the Dec. 31
deadline set by the Fair Board to complete the
job.
Venerable club not sure about move
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Smokers and other tobacco users
who touch young tomato or pepper
plants could be giving them the
"kiss of death" because of an easily
transmitted tobacco virus, a state
entomologist warned.
"Just washing your hands with
soap and water before going to the
garden and then avoiding touching
your tobacco is the best way for
"All the memories are here and it's
hard to change things you've been
doing for a while."
Carlile is one of "about a dozen"
friends of nearly equal age making
up the bulk of the club's member-
ship. They sit and talk, swapping
stories they've all heard many
times, but listen anyway "just to see
if It's said right..."
The only requirement for* mem-
bership is to listen as much as you
talk, Carlile said.
smokers or chewers to avoid being
carriers." said Albert Thomas,
plant and quarantine supervisor for
the state department of agriculture.
The period of greatest susceptibil-
ity is when young tomato and pep-
per plants are being transplanted,
but Thomas said touching or han-
dling them afterward can still
transmit the virus.
"I don't like television and there
is just nothing else for me to do,"
Carlile said.. "I enjoy talking with
my friends and seeing the people I
know."
Courthouse employees consider
Carlile the president, if there is one,
although there haven't been any
elections recently.
"We ll make sure there is a bench
for them," he said. "They are as
much a part of the court as any
other employee. If they don't move
with the courthouse they will be
missed."
Assistant District Attorney
Nathan Young said employees are
concerned when the club does not
appear.
"If they don't show up something
is wrong," he said. "We wonder what
has happened when they aren't
there. They're fixtures of the court-
house, part of the past that lives
with us. I can't imagine them not
being at the new courthouse when
we move in."
TAHLEQUAH (UPI) - "Spit and
Whittle Club" members have met
daily for more years than most can
remember in the shade of the Chero-
kee County Courthouse, a structure
more than 100 years old and due to
be replaced at the end of the year.
And although court officials plan
to provide a place for the club out-
side the new building, the oldtimers
aren't sure they will make the move.
"It just wouldn't be the same at
the new place," said Ed Carlile, 83.
Undersheriff Bill Holderby said
he can remember seeing the club
passing the time of day in front of
the sheriff's office when he was a
boy. And that, said Holderby, was a
long time ago.
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"All their terms ran out years
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"They just never bothered to hold
elections again."
Associate District Judge Lynn
Burris said there will be a place for
the club when the court system
moves to its new home.
"If you don't have time to listen
then, you don't have time to talk,"
he said.
Plants given ‘kiss of death’
Young plants that contract the vi-
rus never fully develop, he said.
They either fail to produce fruit or
they produce stunted and distorted
looking fruit.
Thomas suggested removing any
plants that might have been ex-
posed to tobacco mosaic virus and
those around them because the dis-
ease also is highly transmissible by
insects.
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