Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 291, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1979 Page: 1 of 84
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Snow covered the ground in the
Clinton area this morning with the
Temperatures tonight were ex-
pected to drop to the mid-20s, then
climb to the low 30s Friday. The ex-
tended forecast called for a chance
of precipitation to continue through
the weekend.
tion was predicted for the metropol-
itan area tonight through Friday
with amounts expected to be gener-
ally less than a half-inch.
The Metropolitan District Com-
mission reported 200 persons were
evacuated from Revere, Mass. More
than a foot of water covered the
causeway linking Nahant, north of
Poston, to the mainland.
suburban Sauk Village, was charged
with reckless homicide and drunken
driving.
Seven inches of snow had fallen
Wednesday in Chicago, where snow-
removal crews were still trying to
clear up the 20 inches that had fall-
en 12 days earlier.
After the incident, angry drivers
jammed a South Side police station,
complaining their cars had been
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McKinley. Heiwi'i 4-year-old car plunged over the
sheer precipiee about 11 p.m. Wednesday after vandals
apparently pilfered two barricades, equipped with
flashing lights, that had stood In the street.
The heavy rains were accompa-
nied in some areas by lightning and
More than 50 roads were closed in
Lancaster County and dozens of
families were being evacuated. One
Lancaster man was rescued from
the roof of his car as it floated down
a swollen stream.
temperature hovering around the
32-degree mark, said a Clinton
Highway Patrol dispatcher.
Despite the snow and sleet, the
weather service was refraining
Investigators said a road grader
used in clearing the snow-clogged
streets first smashed into a series of
parked cars then veered onto the
busy Dan Ryan Expressway.
When it struck the rear of a refuse
thunder, balmy temperatures, and
winds of more than 50 miles an
hour.
at no more than about 20,000.
"We don't want another dictator-
ship. We don't want Khomeini," one
demonstrator, a 31-year-old oil tech-
nician, told a reporter.
Other anti-Khomeini protests
were reported in the cities of Ahwaz,
Tabriz, Mashhad and Kermanshah.
With productivity reaching only
0.8 percent during 1078, the prob-
lem has "reached serious propor-
tions," he said.
Carter listed four principles that
form the cornerstones of his overall
economic strategy:
— Act "forcefully and effective-
ly" to combat inflation and "persist
until the battle is won."
— Make the best use of limited
government resources to achieve
national objectives.
— Do not lose sight of the needs of
the poor, elderly and unemployed.
— Ensure a "strong and stable
dollar" to maintain confidence in
the U.S. economy.
The president projected an in-
Carter used the anti-inflation
theme to keynote his major econom-
ic policy statement containing pre-
viously announced economic goals
and projections.
The president listed "poor" pro-
ductivity as another major concern
because it adds to inflation.
"These problems," Carter said,
"are so acute that they demand an
all-out effort to reduce inflation."
truck, the truck driver slammed on
his breaks and blocked the grader.
"But he put the grader in reverse
and began backing up," said truck
driver Shelby Neylon, 37. "He hit
about five cars before he backed
right over the one car, crushing the .
man inside it. His two rear wheels
went right over the top of that car."
James Holman, 45, was killed.
Lawrence Bartlett said his car
creasing economic growth this year,
but at a slower rate than in the past,
and said no recession is on the hori-
zon despite some private forecasts.
Carter saved his most vivid
phrases to drive home the point that
the nation's overall economic health
depends on curtailing inflation.
The message came one day after
the Labor Department announced
By Jim Bradshaw
STRINGTOWN - A Stringtown in-
mate serving two concurrent life
sentences for kidnapping has been
nominated by the chairman of the
Oklahoma Jaycees for selection as
one of the Outstanding Young Men
of America for 1979.
that consumer prices for 1978 rose 9
percent, the second highest yearly
inflation rate in three decades.
"One of the major tasks of a dem-
ocratic government is to maintain
conditions in which its citizens have
a sense of command over their own
destiny," the president said.
When prices rise, "individuals
(See INFLATION-Page 2)
Schlesinger, he sees the shift as a
result of earlier questionable feder-
al energy policy.
"I think this comes from a lot of
industries on the East Coast having
(See GAS—Page 2)
Blowing snow and sleet began
falling in the Oklahoma City just be-
fore noon, although temperatures in
the upper 30s prevented it from
■ticking.
A 40 percent chance of precipita-
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Ayatullah
Ruhollah Khomeini today delayed
his return to Iran at least until Sun-
day, but he brushed aside a request
by Prime Minister Shahpour Ba-
khtiar to wait three weeks or more
to give the government time to
"calm down" the army.
Khomeini, the exiled religious
leader who beads the tight to over-
throw Shah Mohammad Reza Pahla-
vi, announced postponement of his
flight to Tehran, previously sebed-
lied for FridaydUfter the military
In the meantime, the National
Weather Service warned that more
snow is beaded for the Rockies and
New England
In Pennsylvania today, the
ernment demonstrations in several
Iranian cities today. In Tehran,
thousands of persons of all ages and
occupations rallied in support of the
Iranian constitution and the Ba-
khtiar government, and some at-
tacked stores and cars bearing por-
traits of Khomeini.
factories and homes in Pottstown
and downstream Philadelphia. Po-
lice closed two main roads along the
river in Philadelphia when the wa-
ter reached four feet deep.
smashed.
"I've got 50 people in the station
who claim that their cars have been
damaged," Sgt. Michael McMahon
said.
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In upstate New York, civil defense
workers took to boats to rescue resi-
dents along the Susquehanna River
as the water rose over bridges.
About two dozen residents of
Broadacres were evacuated to an
area fire station but rescuers were
having trouble getting to marooned
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President
Carter warned Congress today that
unless inflation is controlled the en-
tire social structure of the nation
could be seriously damaged.
Using some of the strongest lan-
guage of his presidency, Carter said
he was concerned that "the corro-
sive effects of inflation (will) eat
away at the ties that bind us togeth-
er as a people."
"Inflation injures every person in
our country," Carter said in his
traditional economic message to
Congress.
"It means that paychecks do not
go as far as they once did. It means
that savings accumulated for retire-
ment or for a child's education be-
come inadequate. Many poor and
elderly persons see prices they pay
for food, shelter and heat rise rapid-
ly, while their incomes rise slowly
or not at all."
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Local: A 40 percent chance
of occasional light rain to-
night and Friday possibly be-
coming mixed with freezing
rain or snow. Lows tonight
mid-20s; highs Friday low 30s.
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After getting oft work at about 7
p.m., Loftus said. Blair apparently
went to dinner and drank excessive-
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Loftus said Blair then returned to
his grader and attempted to maneu-
ver it, smashing into autos as he
veered through the streets.
There were conflicting reports on
how many cars were damaged, but
one police count put the total at 31.
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The demonstrations appeared to
be part of a growing backlash
against Khomeini. Some Iranian re-
porters estimated the Tehran crowd
at perhaps 100,000, but several
Western reporters placed the figure
The National Weather Service re-
ported scattered showers through-
out western Oklahoma by midmorn-
ing with the heaviest activity cen-
tered east of Fort Sill.
Dozens of cars smashed,
Barricade thieves promote plunge
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jeweler Robert Henson Jr. snaps a picture st bls luck-
lew Lincoln Continental, wedged beneath the fenada-
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of natural gas
By Dwayne Cox
In an about-face from years past,
the federal government now is pro-
moting new residential natural gas
hookups — a move state Corpora-
tion Commission Chairman Hamp
Baker says has resulted from gov-
ernment officials "getting caught
up in their own regulations."
The Associated Press reported
Department of Energy Secretary
James R. Schlesinger has mailed
letters to state regulatory commis-
sions encouraging state-level pro-
motion of residential consumption
of natural gas.
In recent years, the federal gov-
ernment has discouraged residen-
tial gas for new homes because of
shortages and uncertainty of sup-
ply.
Although Baker emphasized he
has not yet received the letter from
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Addressing followers at his bead-
quarters-in-exile in France, Kho-
meini denounced the Bakhtiar gov-
ernment as "puppets and agents of w
Fhe foreigner." I
"The time for this is gone," he
said. But he urged his Iranian sup-
porters "to keep calm and observe
tranquility and order."
Bakhtiar sent a letter to the Shiite
Moslem patriarch asking him to de-
lay his return for at least three
weeks because he could not guaran-
tee his safety and because of "vari-
ous intrigues."
Before Khomeini's announcement
today, senior government officials
(See IRAN-Page 8) o
Rodney Atkeson, 32, a founder of
the Jaycees chapter of inmates at
the Stringtown correctional institu-
tion, was nominated by Stanley R.
Moffat, state Jaycees chairman of
the board and immediate past presi-
dent.
"He's just a super individual — a
leader in his own right," said Mof-
fat, a Stillwater farmer-rancher.
"He has really changed from when
he first got there.”
Moffat admitted his nomination
(See JAYCEES-Page 2)
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inan crushed^ to death by snow grader, police say
Rains produce flooding in Northeast
Associated press
A storm that earlier dumped
heavy snow on the blizzard-weary
Midwest brought heavy rains and
flooding to the Northeast today,
forcing the evacuation of hundreds
of families, closing roads and
knocking out power lines.
Record-setting rains, gale winds
and high tides engulfed Massachu-
setts coastal communities near Bos-
ton, shutting off major highways in-
to the city and forcing residents to ' Schuylkill River, brown and swollen
flee their homes. and chocked with debris, flooded
Driver of snowplow charged
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say the
driver of a snowplow went on a
drunken rampage with his vehicle,
smashing into dozens of cars and
crushing one motorist to death by
backing the plow over his car.
“I hate my job!" a witness quoted
the driver as saying after he was ap-
prehended Wednesday night. “I
want to see my kids! I hate my job!"
The driver, Thomas Blair, 46, of
promising dreary weekend
Snow, sleet and rain moved
across western Oklahoma and into
central sections today as the weath-
erman predicted another round of
freezing moisture would cover the
state by Friday.
Religious leader postponing his return to Iran
closed Iran's airports for three
days.
Air France said it would not sup-
ply a plane to take the 78-year-old
Moslem holy man home from Paris
until it was assured the flight could
run normally
Khomeini wants to abolish the
monarchy, establish an Islamic re-
public and replace the Bakhtiar
government with one controlled by
him.
fatal Chicago rampage
was one of those hit by the grader
before it entered the expressway.
Bartlett said he followed the
grader onto the expressway and
helped pull Blair from the vehicle
after it eventually came to a halt.
Police Sgt. Charles Loftus said
Blair was employed by the Inter-
state Equipment Co., of Dyer, Ind ,
and had spent 12 hours clearing
snow on southside streets.
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