Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 78, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1978 Page: 6 of 62
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• peace maker" was
presented today to an
Oklahoma County Dis-
trict Court jury as it
prepared to deliberate
A top Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. of-
ficial today strongly defended his
firm's program of paying 20 ONG ex-
ecutives bonuses totaling $674,000 and
averaging $34,700 per person.
Walt Radmilovich, vice president
for public relations, emphasized the
bonuses would have no effect on utility
rates.
"It is by no means outlandish in
business today," Radmilovich said.
"This was based on the recommenda-
tion of a consulting firm. In other
words, we didn't just sit down and de-
cide to do this on the spur of the
moment.
"It doesn't have anything at all to do
with rates. It comes out of the profits
He said Hooreh's in-
tention was to calm
of the company which belong to the
stockholders." he added
Radmilovich said stockholders ap-
proved the bonuses at a meeting two
years ago. Reports of the action came
over the weekend.
told the board at its
monthly meeting here
Sunday.
arrest, did not come up
for parole considera-
He argued that the $674,000 was on-
ly a small amount of the money it
costs to purchase natural gas.
"It may seem like a lot of money,"
Radmilovich said, "but when you
match it up to what we re spending for
gas, there's no comparison."
He noted it costs about $1.1 million
per day for ONG to buy gas for its cus-
tomers.
determining guilt but
rather was in setting
punishment.
bridge Saturday and Inspectors were wnrklng nn damage
eslmtates today. Fred Thompson, street superintendent, said
several streets and bridges were damaged.
The three parole
board members who
voted for Clark's re-
lease all agreed that
the time he spent incar-
cerated was plenty. "1
really believe 30 years
is long time, and if you
don't make it now, you
never will." Robert B.
Copeland. Tulsa, board
vice chairman, told
Clark.
Dean E. Smith, Enid,
sent to prison for the
attempted rape of a 12-
year-old Enid girl, won
a parole in July 1973 af-
ter serving nearly six
years on a 25-year sen-
tence.
But a drinking prob-
The parole board is
concluding its two-day
session today as it con-
siders clemency pleas
from about 80 inmates.
lem brought Smith
back inside prison
walls three years ago
as a parole violator and
the board Sunday told
the 37-year-old convict
he must wait before he
is released again.
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Corporation Commissioner Jan Eric
Cartwright, a frequent critic of ONG,
was quoted by The Associated Press
as saying, "All that big bonus money
reflects the record profits and record
rate increases ONG has been enjoying
recently."
Radmilovich said the main purpose
of the bonuses is to encourage execu-
tives to remaip with the company
longer and to provide incentive for
better work.
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Monday. May 22, 1978________
Terrorists
Kryan McGIasson and Billy Hatfield Inspect this bridge
cave-in in the 6555 black at NW 16 caused by torrential rains
over the weekend. Street maintenance crews barricaded the
Southwestern College
during a disturbance.
Defense attorney
Rick Chew told jurors
that Elyas Hooreh, 22,
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He said the language
school was bringing the
college an estimated
$250,000 a year and
called it "a tax
sheltered money mak-
ing game."
He said the money
which otherwise would
have been taxed, fell in-
to a different and tax
sheltered category
when it was transferred
to the college accounts.
David W.Taylor, as-
sistant district attor-
ney, reminded jurors
Hooreh admitted he
didn't leave the school
although he heard or-
ders issued that demon-
strators go.
The difficult part of
the decision. Taylor
told jurors, was not in
what," Chew told the
jury.
In instructions to
jurors, special judge
James L. Gullett ruled
they must decide
whether Hooreh ever
received a valid order
to leave the institution.
Chew also in closing
argument raised a
question as to whether
the schools language
center which special-
ized in teaching Irani-
ans English actually
was part of the college.
He noted the interna-
tional students were nt
under the dean of stu-
dents and were barred
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tic nervous" Sunday as
he asked for a parole,
but assured the board,
••I've learned some
good habits."
Clark said he was a
skilled leather worker
and hoped to operate
his own shop someday.
"I want to get me a
place out in the country
. . . where I can relax
a little bit," said Clark,
an inmate at the Oua-
chita Training Center
near Hodgens.
While Clark's parole
interview proved a suc-
cessful one, another
convicted rapist saw '
his plea turned down by
the board, meeting at
the state penitentiary
here.
By Ed Kelley
Staff Writer
McALESTER
53-year-old Oklahoma
City Inmate who has
been in prison and a
mental institution
since 1948, was recom-
mended for parole Sun-
day so he can "get me a
place out in the coun-
try" upon release.
William Lee Clark
was given a favorable
clemency nod for the
first time ever when
"All this harping and wailing over
really peripheral things constantly
amazes me," Radmilovich said.
"These are way out of the peripheral.
They're unimportant.
"What is important is the increasing
cost of energy," he said.
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and Parole Board rec-
ommended his release
by a 3-2 vote.
Clark was sent to
prison March 12, 1948,
for the rape of an Okla-
homa City woman five
months earlier.
Since that time,
Clark, who is serving a
life sentence, has re-
mained behind bars ex-
cept for several trips to
Eastern State Hospital
at Vinita for psychia-
plant bombs
NEW YORK (UPI) - Small bombs exploded to-
day at New York's Kennedy Airport, Newark In-
ternational Airport and outside the Justice De-
partment building in Washington. A Puerto Rican
terrorist organization, FALN. claimed responsi-
bility fpr the explosions.«.
No one was injured in the blasts.
A telephone call was received at UPI's New
York headquarters at 10:15 a m. from a woman
identifying herself as a member of FALN, a group
demanding independence for Puerto Rico.
"This is FALN," the caller said. "Listen careful-
ly. We take full responsibility for actions in New-
ark, New York. Chicago and Washington and cor-
responding airports today , , .
The bombing in Washington slightly chipped the
marble of the south wall of the Justice Depart-
ment Building but caused no injuries. Witnesses
inside the building said the noise resembled two
cars colliding.
There was no immediate report of an explosion
in Chicago.
All of the cities mentioned in the FALN tele-
phone communique have been previous targets of
the Puerto Rican terrorist organization. The worst
of the attacks occurred at New York's historic
Fraunces Tavern in January 1975, when a bomb
ripped through the building during the lunch hour,
killing four.
In Washington, Assistant Police Chief B.D.
Crooke Jr. said a bomb-sniffing dog had checked
"externally and internally" and found no trace of
any other bomb.
"There were no injuries and hardly any damage
at all," Crooke said. "It chipped the exterior of the
wall probably 10 feet away."
role weighed
By Jim Youg
State universities should make sure courses pay
their own way before instruction in other states
and countries is undertaken, Dr. E.T. Dunlap,
state regents chancellor, said today.
Dr. Dunlap's statements came as regents re-
ceived a report on the enrollments in programs
being offered by the University of Oklahoma and
Oklahoma State
University at military facilities outside Oklaho-
ma.
The report showed that OU is offering courses to
1,992 students at 28 locations around the world.
Regents were told that five of the OU programs .
are failing to pay their own way.
A single OSU program at Brownwood, Texas, is
showing a profit, the study showed.
The chancellor said, "I wonder whether this is a
role a state university should be concerned with."'.
He said that if such a program is making money
for th? school and helping the on-campus budget,
then the program might have merit. However, he
expressed concern such programs take top faculty
members away from the campus and that is where
their principal responsibility lies.
The report showed OU classes at Redstone Arse-
nal, Ala., Washington, D.C.. Crailsheim, Germany,
Clark Air Force Base, The Phillipines, and Camp
Zama, Japan, are not generating enough revenue
to cover the cost of the schooling.
In other business today, regents approved the
spending of $2,250,000 in Oscar Rose Junior Col-
lege funds for a library expansion. A total of
$250,000 is being provided from state funds and
the remainder comes from Midwest City-Del City
ad valorem tax money voted for junior college
support.
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Voter registrar
locations listed
Oklahoma County roving voter registrars will
operate from the Libraries Department cafeteria,
200 NE 18, from 11 a.m. until 2 .p.(iv Tuesday to
enroll new voters.
Wednesday they will sign up voters in the Public
Safety Department snack area. 3600 N Eastern,
from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
On Thursday they will move to the Sequoyah
Building, NW 23 and Lincoln, from 14 a m. until 2
p.m.; Skaggs Albertsons, NW 23 and Rockwell, 3-9
p.m. and Safeway, NW 23 and Ann Arbor. 3-7 p.m.
Friday, they will operate from the city-county
health department from 9 a m until noon and
from Target. 5400 N May, from noon until 6:30
p.m. ..........................................
They will return to Target Saturday'From noon
until 6:30 p.m. and will operate from Shepherd
Mall from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
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trie observation, he of wasted years."
But he told board
members, "I don't have
no mean streak in me.
In fact, Clark, an I've never hurt anybody
electrician before his in my life."
Following his second
parole denial in 1970,
lion until 1969, 21 years Clark said he requested
after he entered the that he not be put on
state penitentiary. the monthly clemency
The silver-haired docket for another 6
inmale, during his in- years. He was also de-
terview Sunday, admit- nied parole in July
led his days behind
prison walls were “a lot
Iranian labeled peace-maker
By Jim Johnsen
A verbal picture of
confusion and depiction tempers which had
flared during an abor-
tive anti-Shah demon-
stration.
Chew told the jury of
four women and two
men that Hooreh was
the fate of a young Ira- confused by a series of
man accused of failing conflicting • orders to
to leave Oklahoma City leave the building and
to stay in the hallway.
Ultimately, he said,
Hooreh was invited to
meet with a senior ad-
ministrator "as the one
of 2501 NW 12, arrived with the greatest poten-
at the scene of the col- tiality for reasonably
lege disturbance after resolving this."
it already had "It was confusing
occurred. who had authority to do from using student dor-
mitories. the student
center and the gymna-
sium.
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ONG defends bonus practice
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