Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 249, Ed. 2 Thursday, December 7, 1978 Page: 4 of 65
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ning and zoning commission.
The commission will meet Jan. 22
With his will, he arranged to leave
his corneas to the Lions Club state
eye bank and his body to the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma Medical School for
research.
Marcinie came to Tulsa in 1927 at
the invitation of the owner of a now
defunct art gallery. He was quickly
commissioned to work on a series of
murals in the mansion of oilman
W.G. Skelly.
Marcinie, born in Berlin in 1895,
spent most of his early youth in an
orphanage and monastery. He expe-
rienced problems with his eyes and
was told his right eye would have to
be removed. But a physician sug-
gested therapy instead and Marci-
nie retained his sight.
letes from across the U.S. and 30
countries around the world who par-
ticipate annually in the Special
Olympics Program.
He will be joined in the Washing-
ton awards ceremonies by 11 other
fellow recipients of the coveted
"Spirit of the Special Olympics"
medallions in recognition of deter-
mination and perseverence in the
face of great handicaps.
Others who will be on hand for the
award presentations who have lent
^voluntary support to the Special
Olympics will include heavyweight
champion Muhammad Ali, baseball
star Steve Garvey, newscaster Bar-
bara Walters, soccer stars Kyle
Rote Jr. and Pele, Baltimore Colts
quarterback Bert Jones, basketball
star Elvin Hayes and Henry Kiss-
inger, former secretary of state.
day charged the missionary pro-
gram was involved in the sale of
more than $4 million in worthless
bonds in the U.S. and Europe.
Federal officials reported the fol-
lowing arrests Wednesday:
—Ray Evan Mason, 46, Noble, OK,
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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A
portion of an elementary school was
sealed off today after dozens of
school children and several adults
were sickened during a rehearsal
for a school play.
former federal bank examiner and
former officer of the Case National
Bank at Stonewall, was arrested in
Oklahoma City, where he was
arraigned. His bond was set at
$100,000.
—Securities dealers Leonard An- •
thony Turi, 46, and Leo Patrick
Netzel, 46, were arrested in Chicago,
where they were to be arraigned be-
fore a U.S. magistrate with recom-
mended bonds of $100,000.
—Tillman Sherron Jackson, 56, a
Los Angeles area minister, who also
has addresses in Arkansas, was ar-
rested in Los Angeles. Authorites
said he was being held on $50,000
bail.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Os-
good said Whitby was expected to be
arraigned in Muskogee Friday.
The grand jury indictment alleges
the men printed $11 million in
worthless bonds on the missionary
program and sold about $4.5 million
of them at a profit of $170,000.
The panel alleged about $4 mil-
lion of the bonds were placed in
Swiss banks for general circulation
in 1975.
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MUSKOGEE (AP) - The FBI has
reported the arrests of four men in-
dicted here by a federal grand jury
Tuesday in a fraud scheme involv-
ing bonds sold by a Tulsa religious
organization.
The arrests came in Oklahoma,
Illinois and California. A fifth man
charged in the grand jury indict-
ment, Tulsa minister James Roy
Whitby, 50, already was in federal
custody in Tulsa.
Whitby, founder of Gospel Out-
reach Inc., a missionary program,
was convicted in September of de-
frauding a Skiatook man and his
mother of $25,000.
A federal grand jury here Tues-
HOMINY (AP) — The only per-
sons around here who seem to be
free of housing worries are the in-
mates at the new Connor Correc-
tional Center.
The greatest need is for 30 to 40
employees scheduled to begin work-
ing at the center. And more employ-
ees are to be hired beginning in Jan- liveable home here for $10,000
as far as Tulsa, about 50 miles, he
said. t
"When there is ice and snow on
the roads. It’s not going to be much and orderly fashion,” said Jean
reached by April.
Deputy Warden L.T. Brown says
the housing problem for persons
who work at the center is becoming jng on changes in ordinances and
acute. Some employees drive from zoning laws to help expansion.
"We want builders to come to
Hominy, but at the same time, we
want our city laid out in an esthetic
fun to drive 20 miles, let alone 50,”
he said.
"Many employees already are liv- _________________
ing in single-person apartments and to work on the ordinances.
problem surfaces
can’t bring their families to
Hominy," he said.
Others have bought homes or are
living in apartments in Cleveland
and Pawhuska.
Not only is there a shortage of
homes but the prices are going up.
“Six months ago, you could buy a ,
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costing $25,000 to $30,000," Brown
said.
recipient of will
TULSA (AP) — An immigrant ar-
tisan who nearly lost sight in his
right eye as a youth in his native
Berlin has willed the local Lions
Club his life's earnings to help those
with visual impairments.
Max Marcinie, a German painter
and stained glass artisan, died re-
cently at age 83 after being cared
for in his later years by members of
the Downtown Lions Club.
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Marcinie left his worldly posses-
sions. including "many paintings,"
art supplies and various other prop-
erty, to the Lions Club for the Tulsa
Downtown Lions Club Trust Fund.
Interest from the fund is used to
help those with physical limitations
or visual impairments.
The frugal German immigrant
had accumulated cash reserves in
three banking institutions, four lots
of land in Tulsa and several build-
ings.
Roy Cox Sr., who cared for Marci-
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the estate would be worth about
$150,000.
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WEWOKA — A misdemeanor
charge of assaulting a school teach-
er has been lodged against a Wewo-
ka woman who allegedly slapped a
junior high school teacher after her
daughter was suspended from the
school basketball team.
Camilla Myers pleaded innocent
to the charge and was released on
her own recognizance.
Ernest Clark, Cowart Junior High
principal, said the incident involved
Neldo Jo Kirk, math and crafts
teacher, who was slapped after the
woman came to school to inquire
about her 13-year-old girl being sus-
pended from the basketball team as
a disciplinary measure.
Clark said the woman also threat-
ened him and Mrs. Kirk with a tape
dispenser and threw a telephone re-
ceiver at him, "hitting me above the
eye."
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from first lady Rosalyn Carter in
Washington Sunday in recognition
of his triumph over physical and
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